Comment by Gankom on 26/01/2025 at 15:51 UTC

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View submission: Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 26, 2025

We pause for a moment this beautiful Sunday to show some appreciation for those fascinating questions that caught our eyes and captured our curiosities, but sadly remain unanswered. Feel free to post your own, or those you’ve come across in your travels, and maybe we’ll get lucky with a wandering expert.

/u/anthropology_nerd asked TV clips of pop musicians in the 1950s often show audience members fainting or other extreme emotional outbursts. What do we know about the origin of this behavior?

/u/tjorben123 asked How was the Time-shift noticed when traveling to the new world? Or was it well known before passing the atlantic ocean? Did the people 15th century understand the fundamental principals of it?

/u/MaterialActive1794 asked How many puppet states did Napoleon create and control?

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Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:52 UTC

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/u/ScientificSkepticism asked How did America end up with the salute it did?

/u/Healthy-Curve-5359 asked If the UK's greater willingness to comply with its treaties with the Native American nations, limiting expansion into the interior of the continent was a major factor in the revolution, why did the Canadian colonies spread across North America, like the United States did?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:52 UTC

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/u/ducks_over_IP asked I am a hot-blooded young computer enthusiast in 1990 with a Windows 3.0 PC, a dial-up modem, and no regard for my parents' phone bill. What kind of vice and digital pleasures are available to me?

/u/holomorphic_chipotle asked What is the origin of the "dumb American" stereotype?

Comment by ManMukh at 26/01/2025 at 19:25 UTC

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u/ManMukh asked How valid are labels and categories for “world regions” in contemporary historiography?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:51 UTC

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/u/TheHondoGod asked What is the origin of the stereotypical Canadian "Eh"?

/u/Elegant_Mind7950 asked How did The Eiffel Tower survive both World Wars?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:52 UTC

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/u/NewtonianAssPounder asked Why were smallholdings so prevalent in Germany that Lebensraum was seen as the only solution to feed the German population instead of the land consolidation implemented in other industrial nations?

/u/Flora_295fidei asked Why didn’t the Soviet Union support the Hippies?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:52 UTC

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/u/OnShoulderOfGiants asked The TV show SAS Rogue Heroes makes the unit out to be legendary even early on, with its leader being famous enough to argue with generals. Other material I've read said the SAS spent most of the war messing up and only got famous much letter. Whats the truth?

/u/Fuck_Off_Libshit asked I'm an openly gay man living in Jerusalem during the Roman occupation of Palestine. Does anything happen to me? Am I free to go about my business?

Comment by Gankom at 26/01/2025 at 15:52 UTC

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/u/Dover299 asked What happen to the relationship with the US and Iran?

A deleted user asked I'm a Roman Citizen living in the Roman Republic and, screw modern fashion trends, my legs are cold, and I want a pair of pants! Just how easily could I get a hold of pants, and other "barbarous" clothes, if I really wanted them? Would I even dare trying to wear them?

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/u/JustaBitBrit asked How accurate is the movie “TETRIS”?

/u/ducks_over_IP asked Is it true that the adage "90% of body heat is lost through your head" is based on a flawed US Army study where they clothed participants in winter gear but didn't give them hats?