Manichaeism is a former major world religion that thrived between the third and seventh centuries, and at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire
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The first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides was an 8-hour alternative history film prophesizing the end of the world and costed approximately an equivalent of $9,418,000 in today's money
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TIL Manichaeism is a former major world religion that thrived between the third and seventh centuries, and at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as the Roman Empire
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TIL The first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides was an 8-hour alternative history film prophesizing the end of the world and costed approximately an equivalent of $9,418,000 in today's money
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When you turn on different currency in PokerStars, does it restrict you to only playing against players using that same currency?
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When you turn on different currency in PokerStars, does it restrict you to only playing against players using that same currency?
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Seriously, guys who like women's feet, do you find that YOUR OWN feet are sensitive to touch and/or slightly erogenous?
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If the US wanted to build a giant wall to stop illegal immigration from South America, would it help to make a deal with Mexico to build it and enforce it on Mexico's southern border?
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If U.S. states are supposed to act like independent countries, why are they not as enthusiastic these days about granting state citizenship to non-U.S.-citizens and extending voting rights to them?
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TIL Several Nazis were environmentalists, and species protection and animal welfare were significant issues in the Nazi regime. Hermann Göring was a professed animal lover and conservationist, who threatened to commit Germans who violated Nazi animal welfare laws to concentration camps.
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Is it undemocratic that a private member's bill that costs money requires the government's support?
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[Discussion] In "Untold: Sign Stealer", why does such a rule exist in the first place and considered such an extreme form of cheating?
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What short text or piece of writing could you send to humans in the distant past that would have the maximum impact in altering the course of human history?
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TIL In 2015, the word quizzaciously was shown on Vsauce as an example of a word in the Oxford English Dictionary with Google only returning one search result for the word. Now it returns thousands of Google search results.
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TIL In 2015, the word quizzaciously was shown on Vsauce as an example of a word in the Oxford English Dictionary with Google only returning one search result for the word. Now it returns thousands of Google search results.
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TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s
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TIL Mount Erebus is the highest active volcano in Antarctica, and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s
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When capsicum (peppers) from the New World were introduced into the Old World, why was it so widely adopted into Asian cuisine and not as much in European cuisine?
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How common is it for someone to regularly sit down and read an academic publication, such as a journal or conference proceedings, from cover-to-cover, similar to the way that people read a magazine or a newspaper?
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How could they butcher this? 12 is literally one of the best numbers for divisiblity
/r/facepalm - please sir can I have some more?
How could they butcher this? 12 is literally one of the best numbers for divisiblity
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TIL An October 2017 Presidential Decree in Kazakhstan ordered that the transition from Cyrillic to a Latin script be completed by 2031. One reason is that ending the use of Cyrillic is useful in re-asserting national identity and allows for better international integration
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