And then, once Roosevelt was elected, his disability was, for the most part, no longer under discussion. How’d he manage it?
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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Seriously—why do so many people dislike Hillary Clinton?
A third of Americans will always approve of Hillary Clinton, while another third forever will be ready to holler “Lock her up!” But what’s with that middle that can’t make up its mind?
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Do we drink dinosaur urine?
So, sure, when you turn on your shower, the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms that emerge may at some point have seen the inside of a dinosaur
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What happens to fan-made tributes left at celebrity memorials?
The dead flowers and rotten food got tossed, but everything else was documented and archived according to standard museum procedures
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Why are people afraid of bugs?
There may just be things humans are genetically predisposed to fear because they once presented us with a distinct mortal threat
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Who profits from climate change?
Now, of course, we face a prospect of constant emergency, from steadily rising sea levels to increasingly extreme storms to lethal heat waves