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Top stories for Long   My friend is 67, he served in the navy during Vietnam. Now all of a sudden he's being labeled a non-veteran by the VA. What is a non- veteran? Ani Awa, PHd Behavioral Psychology & Vietnam War, U.S. Army Command and General Staff Col... • Answered November 6, 2018 Some Vets will tell you that their DD-214s were burned up in the infamous fire at the St. Louis National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) on July 12, 1973. Before you let th... Read more » 762 346   Are Tomahawk missiles, designed in the 1070s, only of use against countries without modern air defences, or any air defences? Eugene Chia, Military history/equipment buff • Answered January 18 First, though the initial Tomahawk design does date back from the 70s, it's been comprehensively upgraded over time. The current Tactical Tomahawk is only superficially sim... Read more » 590 25   How do I respectfully and tactfully tell someone that I can't split the bill at a restaurant when their portion is way more than mine? Caroline Young • Updated 5m ago My husband and I went out with another couple. We don't drink. The other couple drink like fish. So when the server came to take our orders, I piped up and said, "Can we ha... Read more » 2.2K 166   Why didn't Barack Obama decline the Nobel Peace Prize, like how President Donald Trump did? Jeff Redman, former Video Production Assistant and Jack of Most Trades at CSUS University Fou... • Updated Wed Because Obama supports many charitable causes. The Nobel Peace Prize includes a cash award of $1.4 million. Then President Obama gave every penny of that cash to the follow... Read more » 1.2K 139   Why can't Fermat's Last Theorem be proved using mathematical induction? Alon Amit, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. • Answered July 2, 2015 1. We don't know all the possible ways to prove FLT. We know one, and it's an extremely complicated one. 2. It's not clear to me what you mean by "using induction". Every n... Read more » 268 29   How does your body warn you one month before a heart attack? John Arogano, studied at University of Washington • Answered Wed I ignored every single warning sign my body was sending me for three straight weeks before I had a massive heart attack when I was forty-seven years old. I'm talking about ... Read more » 227 14   Who was Carly Simon writing about in 'You're So Vain'? Why? Philip Anderson, lives in Australia • Answered January 9 I think there might be some clue she gave in the first few words she sings in the song. She whispers " Son of a Gun". Well around 1968 she was going out with the British sin... Read more » 415 96   How long can Emirates run A-380 profitably? When will Emirates start phasing out the A-380s? Akash Unni, Studied aircrafts for 4 years! • Answered July 2, 2019 $237 Million. That was Emirates' profit for the year 2018–2019. How do they do it? Emirates' strategy involves funnelling large masses of people to their home base, Dubai, and... Read more » 87 2   Tariffs are a headache but have a surprise upshot: the U.S. is raking in billions more than expected. What are your thoughts on this? Henry R. Greenfield, MBA Finance & History, Thunderbird School of Global Management (1972) • Answered December 29 It is amazing that almost all answers wanted to argue about how much money was coming in and whether it contributed or not to inflation. And of course they forgot the MOST ... Read more » 1.3K 95   Why don't predators eat hibernating bears? Sean Kernan, Writer at seanjkernan.substack.com • Answered October 29 If nature were a video game, hibernation would be considered an overpowered feature that needs to be nerfed. The bear goes to sleep and its body begins shutting down, its br... Read more » 10.6K 276   Why is Genghis Khan called Khan? Is he Muslim? If not, why did he have Khan after Genghi? Bradley Betts, History nerd • Updated February 12, 2024 Why is Genghis Khan called Khan? Is he Muslim? If not, why did he have Khan after Genghi? You've got your causation backwards. Genghis Khan was not called khan because he wa... Read more » 8.3K 435   The reason why Japanese Pilots feared the Big Blue Fighters. Tyson Arnold, hoo • Posted Jan 19 At the beginning of the war, Japanese pilots thought that they were the kings of the sky. That was however over when the F6F Hellcat and the F4U Corsair came in. then all of a sudden, the Japanese w... Read more » 1.2K 39 Read more in your feed

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