In Michael Jackson's music video for "Beat It" it showed two men tied together by the hands while they try to attack each other with knives. Where did this come from? Was this ever a thing amongst "gangsters" in the past? (www.reddit.com)
I've seen claims that the modern institution of the police grew out of slave-catching patrols. Is this accurate? What was the earliest thing that you or I would recognize as a police force? (www.reddit.com)
What were the main oils (for cooking, candle and medicine making and beyond) by (Mizrahi) Jews in the MENA region, in the 1600-1700s or prior, in place of where other cultures would have likely used tallow and lard, which aren’t kosher? (www.reddit.com)
Why was an old boot the stereotypical “rubbish” that you fished up when you had a bad day of fishing? Were there a plethora of people throwing their boots into rivers at the time? (www.reddit.com)
The subreddit antiwork recently posted a meme claiming that Medieval peasants had at least 150 days off of work a year. How true is this and did they get any days off? (www.reddit.com)
Hitler infamously said, "We only have to kick in the door...", about the invasion of the Soviet Union. Was he (and the nazis) alone in viewing the USSR as unstable and "rotten"? Did for example the British leadership share that view? (www.reddit.com)
will someone please help identify and provide context on my polish grandmother’s papers from when she was sent by father to work at a nazi camp? (www.reddit.com)
Is it now consensus that high levels of myopia in some populations (eg Taiwan, Hong Kong) is due to insufficient exposure to sunlight? Or is that a fringe theory? (www.reddit.com)
What was happening in the English language that led to a brief period that coined "exocentric verb-noun compound agent nouns?" (explanation in thread) (www.reddit.com)
Fentanyl was invited in 1968, and yet, the epidemic usage of it is more recent. Why wasn't the drug more widely used and abused in the 1970s and 1980s, when it seems that other things were? (www.reddit.com)