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Did the US government claim that it has the right to control "cognitive infrastructure", i.e. thoughts?

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Did an Indian king claim to witness the moon split?

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Are there studies of blood pressure versus blood sodium in the general population?

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Were the Ten Commandments taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

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Did Ataturk say that Islam is "an absurd theology" and "a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"?

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Does China have no homeless people?

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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?

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Did Charles Dickens write this quote about Husayn ibn Ali?

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Does red meat increase the risk of heart disease?

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Does heavy exercising increase beard growth?

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Do poor prison conditions increase crime? [closed]

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Does Tweeting "from the river to the sea" result in a suspension from Twitter?

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Was Defense of Children International Palestine declared a terrorist organization?

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Did Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants lose their family wealth by 1973?

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Do veterans account for one in seven homeless US adults?

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Does the color temperature of a computer screen affect sleep patterns?

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Are Democrats more likely to believe Astrology is a science?

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Does Chinese astrology influence death rates?

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Did Clinton express regret over not rigging Palestinian elections in 2006?

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Did Adolf Hitler offer to make Dhyan Chand a Field Marshal in the German army?

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Did the first Mughal emperor of India, Babur, write love poems for men?

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Did Pakistan ask China to invade India and vice versa in 1962 and in 1999?

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Did French police fine homeless persons for not being confined at home in March 2020?

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Could we buy every homeless person a house with the money spent on the F-35?

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Do homeless people in the USA refuse to work?

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Has China been funding ethnic militias in Myanmar?

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Did B. R. Ambedkar say it is shameful for women to enter politics?

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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?

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Did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar say, “Nazism proved undeniably the saviour of Germany”?

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Were the weapons shown in Gaza hospitals really left there by Hamas? [closed]

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Is this quote/poem by Mahmoud Darwish? "if they ask you about Gaza.."

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Did Israel allow newborn babies to starve to death in their cribs when they seized al-Nasr Hospital in 2023? [closed]

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Was Danielle Aloni’s letter to Hamas voluntary or coerced? [closed]

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Does Norway spend $29,726 on child care per toddler annually?

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Did the crime rate in Norway drop 31% after Muslims were deported?

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Is the name of Prophet Muhammad mentioned in the Bible?

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Did Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar state he aims to remove all people from Israel?

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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in July of 2001?

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Do the mountains around this Norwegian valley act like a giant battery?

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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?

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Was Bin Laden trending on TikTok on 17 November 2023?

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Has Hamas historically used protected civilian infrastructure as shields?

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Does gaunyle, derived from cow urine, work as a disinfectant?

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No gay porn star self-identifies as bottom?

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Are roads more dangerous when it first rains?

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Can joints withstand greater compressive forces than shear forces without injury?


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