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How do you know if Americans genuinely/literally mean what they say?

usa us-citizens culture asked Nov 3 '14 at 12:59
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Is it unethical to cite a paper or book that you have never looked at?

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71 votes

Is it true that “All spicy food is from Latin America”?

food asked Nov 14 '18 at 6:37
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What specifically did Hillary Clinton say or do, to seem untrustworthy to Americans?

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Does the United States have more tax preparers than police and firefighters combined?

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Why did Hitler not order the use of poison gas in combat?

ww2 hitler chemicals asked Oct 9 '14 at 14:20
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35 votes

Does fastening airplane seatbelts reduce the risk of death and injury?

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Is email less secure than voicemail, snail mail, or internet portals for transferring sensitive information?

email asked Sep 18 '14 at 13:54
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Did Kim Jong-Il wrest away power (rather than inherit it) from Kim Il-Sung in a power struggle?

political-history north-korea kim-jong-il kim-il-sung asked Jan 10 '15 at 14:07
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32 votes

Man-hour vs. person-hour? Is the former now considered politically incorrect?

gender-neutral political-correctness asked Nov 20 '14 at 12:08
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What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus and far from common sense?
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Why is the USA able to damage the Russian economy by imposing sanctions but Russia can't do the same?
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Why do Australian milk farmers need to protest supermarkets' milk price?
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Why is North-Korean communist leader Kim Il-sung called Kim Ir Sen in some languages?
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How can I deal with people asking to switch seats with me on a plane?
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Why is the spoken German in many US films and TV shows so inaccurate?
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To what extent are child actors exposed to the violent aspects of the movie they perform in?
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What is meant by a “random variable”?
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Can inflation occur in a positive-sum game currency system such as the Stack Exchange reputation system?
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How exactly did statisticians agree to using (n-1) as the unbiased estimator for population variance without simulation?
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In Pre-WWII peacetime Germany, were there about 18,000-20,000 suicides per year?
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Can the stock market show indefinite exponential growth?
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Does nearly half the world's population live on less than $2 a day?
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How wealthy was Singapore at its independence (1965)?
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What are the scientifically established effects of Daylight Saving Time?
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The origin of “99 cents”
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Can Chinese people read the literature of 2,500 years ago as easily as yesterday's newspapers
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What to do when no one speaks English around you?
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Are there any examples of tariffs working?
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Why did Switzerland not grant votes to women until 1971?
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Did Zimbabwe have an inflation of 89.7 sextillion percent?
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Latest Collins Scrabble Words list in text file
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When and how did the term “liberal” acquire a leftist/socialist meaning in the US?
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Gift card fraud: To whom to report? How to recover funds? Is the party which issued me the card liable?
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Why did the Chinese Nationalist party members go to the island of Taiwan and not to any other island?
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Is it feasible to visit Malaysia on an 18 hour overnight layover in Singapore?
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How much of Singapore shuts down on Christmas Day (and Eve?)
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Claiming that food delivery apps are purely rent extraction
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If Trump's economic policies are destructive, why is the US economy so healthy?
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