What piercing makes you think “damn, that person is cool.” or what’s a piercing that you personally want to get in the future/already have that you find cool? (www.reddit.com)
Eric Hobsbawm wrote in one of his books, "In 1789 50% of the French people did not speak [French] at all, and only 12 to 13% spoke it 'fairly'". What languages did these people speak, and was the same true in other European nation-states (e.g, Sweden, England, Spain, etc?) (www.reddit.com)
Ireland had a huge population in 1821 relative to its size — 6.8 million. Egypt only had only 4.3 million. Scotland: 2.1 million. Austria 3.1 million. USA 9.1 million. Mexico: 6.5 million. Why was Ireland so populous? Did it come down to early adoption of the potato? (www.reddit.com)
When it's said 99.9% of human DNA is the same in all humans, is this referring to only coding DNA or both coding and non-coding DNA combined? (www.reddit.com)
Why do we have 1 numerical system (Hindu-Arabic) worldwide but 100’s of languages? What caused this consolidation for numbers but not languages? (www.reddit.com)
Lt. Hugh Clapperton rode across the Sahara with 200 horses in 1822, relying on springs and bits of shady tree canopy to cross from Libya to Nigeria. Today, that trip might not be possible. Was the Sahara noticeably greener/wetter as recently as 1822? (www.reddit.com)
Was there an equivalent to "start-ups" in socialist countries? How would an employee/factory director who had an idea for new product or method for producing go about it? Did they submit applications to State planners or ministries and State funded it? (www.reddit.com)
Women who work with other people’s bodies for a living (nail techs, masseuses, waxers, sex workers, etc.) what have you learned about those bodies? Have your experiences changed your relationship with your own body? (www.reddit.com)
If a random person came to you and said that you looked like their dead/missing mother and asked if they could give you a hug, what would you do? (www.reddit.com)
What's up with this global western phenomenon of formerly rich industrial areas being incredibly poor now? Areas like the Rustbelt, Ruhr Valley, Northern England and Wales, the former mining areas in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France? (www.reddit.com)
The ancient greeks idealized the small penis a sign of masculinity, as opposed to a big dick, which they ascribed to barbarians as uncivilized and lustful. When did this change and the big dick became a symbol of masculinity? (www.reddit.com)
I’m Dr. Jordan Taylor, author of Misinformation Nation, here to talk about media, politics, and fake news during the American Revolution. AMA! (www.reddit.com)
NASA successfully nudged Dimorphos into a different orbit, but was off by a factor of 3 in predicting the change in period, apparently due to the debris ejected. Will we also need to know the composition and structure of a threatening asteroid, to reliably deflect it away from an Earth strike? (www.reddit.com)
Southern states in the US seceded in the 1860s fearing that slavery would be abolished. But couldn’t these states have blocked abolition for a very long time if they had just stayed? (www.reddit.com)
Did the British Army "acquire" any important American artifacts before they burned Washington DC during the War of 1812? If so, are they still in the British Museum today? (www.reddit.com)
A recent viral tweet claimed that 2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950. What circumstances caused corporations have such a profitable year in 1950? (www.reddit.com)
Enzo Ferrari is reputed to have said: “Ask a child to draw a car, and certainly he will draw it red.” How did we come to associate race cars with the colour red? Is it the result of Ferrari? (www.reddit.com)
how did the over 1 km wide crater on the moon Callirrhoe form without knocking the moon out of orbit around Jupiter? the Moon is less than 10 km wide? (www.reddit.com)
The vast majority of the 150-400 billion stars in the Milky Way haven't been directly detected. Alpha Centauri is the nearest known star to Sol. What is the probability that there are nearer stars that remain undiscovered? (www.reddit.com)
Why is South Africa the only African country where the population of white colonizers and their descendants remained throughout the 20th century? (www.reddit.com)
Is there anything in nature akin to crop rotation ? else, how do plants not deplete any particular nutrient they consume from a piece of wildland as time goes by? (www.reddit.com)
Are there any studies regarding traffic accidents going eastbound in the morning during sunrise and westbound in the evening during sunset? (www.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: I am Prof. Beverley Hunt, OBE, and I am a hematologist in London, England. I am also chair of the World Thrombosis Day Steering Committee. I am here to talk about why MTHFR testing is unnecessary and can cause misinterpretation. AMA! (www.reddit.com)
The Caliphate of Cordoba collapsed in 1031, but there presumably many Umayyad princes still about. So, where did all the Umayyads go? Do we have any record of them post-1031, or did they totally vanish from history's eyes? (www.reddit.com)
Barely three months after VE day, massive pogroms against Jews erupted across Poland. Why? And to what extent is this recognised today? (www.reddit.com)
It's 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable has been laid! I can afford it and i want to call my relatives in Italy. How does the money get distributed as my call bounces around? (www.reddit.com)
What happened to 'British' breads? Or, what caused the dominance of French and Italian bread in Anglo-Saxon, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish diets? (www.reddit.com)