Comment by Gankom on 26/01/2025 at 16:14 UTC

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

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/u/gerardmenfin answered What is the history of the black and white swirl's association with hypnosis, and was it (the swirl or the hypnosis) ever used in 'legitimate' psychiatry?

What did "splitting the atom" mean to the public prior to the end of WW2?

How did the newspapers in Paris report on Napoleon's return after being exiled to Corsica?

There is a famous painting called "The keel-hauling of the ship's surgeon of Admiral Jan van Nes." Why was he keel-hauled?

What's the source for the story of the boy in the dress during the Battle of Vienna (1683)?

"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?" What would somebody in the cheap seats at the Globe Theatre have known about the fauna of far-off places like Egypt?

Did Europeans in the 1600-1700s know that the tomato was a member of the nightshade family?

In the movie "Rose Island" there's a German guy called Neuman who lost his German citizenship when he defected the nazi army. Did this really happen? Why weren't such solders rewarded by the allies?

Were non-French civilians actively persecuted in Nazi-occupied France?

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