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Are travel restrictions during pandemics ineffective in most situations?

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Does New York restrict voting more than Georgia's new law?

united-states politics law voting

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Did Hitler say “We'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry”?

quotes adolf-hitler

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Is this video of an attack on an elderly Asian woman authentic?

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Is it illegal to post (mail) books and newspaper from United Kingdom to Switzerland?

mail

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Are 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities put into political camps?

china genocide

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Are gem-quality diamonds common?

geology gemology

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Has the distribution of income and wealth in the USA got much more skewed towards the rich in the last 4 decades?

united-states economics demographics wealth

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Do Afghans keep track of their birthdays?

sociology afghanistan

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Is it, in some parts of the U.S., easier to get a rifle than to register to vote?

united-states law guns

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Is it illegal to give water to voters in line in Delaware?

united-states voting

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Do elements of the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 provide evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab?

covid-19

answered Apr 5 at 14:07 DavePhD 93.5k

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Did William Shakespeare help make the KJV bible?

history bible literature william-shakespeare religious-texts

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Did Hitler say: “My mother was an ordinary woman, but she gave Germany a great son”?

quotes adolf-hitler

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Did the CIA have a plan to airdrop condoms over Russian soil as a way of psychological warfare?

united-states history cia

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Would the median household income in the USA be $140K and mean net worth $800K if wealth were evenly distributed

united-states economics demographics

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Biden 'fake' interview: video of Biden's hands appearing the wrong side of microphones

video joe-biden

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Did A&W customers think 1/3 pound burger patties weigh less than 1/4 pound ones?

nutrition mathematics mcdonalds

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Have any versions of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” had to remove the Ask the Audience lifeline due to the audience purposely voting wrong?

television

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Is there currently an epidemic of crimes against Asian Americans?

united-states discrimination

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Has any US official said that the economy cannot be “fixed” if the pandemic is not “fixed”?

united-states economics covid-19

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Did passengers of the Titanic predict/foreshadow its sinking?

history titanic

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Are chemicals in plastic causing a significant reduction in fertility?

medical-science pollution fertility

answered Mar 30 at 8:23 Dmitry Grigoryev 2,077

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Was polo the first sport to be played on earth?

history sport

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Did Uber, in its early startup days, hire engineers just by asking newly hired engineers “Who are the best engineers you've worked with”?

business

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Is the Pintubi-1 skull representative of a modern Aboriginal?

biology

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Was the living room called the “death room” around World War I? If so, by whom?

household etymology

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Was this Communist Party Directive from 1943 genuine?

quotes soviet-union

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Did Morgan Freeman say “Oppression is being told you can't say certain words because you will offend someone else”?

quotes

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Is the flu more deadly than COVID-19 for children?

covid-19 flu

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Did Albert Einstein say he admired the Catholic Church for standing up to Hitler?

catholic-church albert-einstein adolf-hitler

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Do transgender women athletes have an advantage over cisgender women athletes?

gender sport

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Does Sci-Hub use malware and phishing to obtain researchers' login credentials?

security internet scientific-papers

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Has the US Air Force studied squid to improve aircraft camouflage?

biology military aviation

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Is Spartacus based on true story?

history ancient-rome

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Was a Canadian father jailed for referring to his trans son as his daughter?

law criminology gender canada lgbt

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Has the Trump administration revoked these listed LGBT protections?

united-states donald-trump equality lgbt

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Do historians agree the motive behind Catholic celibacy was primarily economic?

history catholic-church

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In Sumerian and Akkadian, is the same word used for both ‘priest’ and ‘accountant’?

language

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Does Israel have a contracted minimum quota of people they must inject with Pfizer vaccines?

covid-19 vaccines israel

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Does “UV protective” clothing offer significantly more sun protection than regular clothing? [duplicate]

sun-exposure

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Do the COVID-19 vaccines have worse side-effects for people who have already contracted COVID-19?

covid-19 vaccines

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Did the killer of Arminas Pileckas face charges?

law sweden

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Are American media controlled mostly by Jews?

united-states media

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