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Do lost people tend to unintentionally walk in circles?

Awarded Sep 19 at 18:17

Nigel J

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Has the absorption of menstrual hygiene products only now been compared using blood for the first time?

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Vlad Rudenko

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Did Albert Einstein say that if he could live his life again, he would study the Talmud?

Awarded Aug 31 at 3:36

LangLаngС

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Did Einstein say "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater"?

Awarded Aug 30 at 4:45

Laurel

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Did Albert Einstein say "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"?

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Scott Rollans

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Did Russia's parliament, Duma, propose invading Poland in 2022?

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Joe W

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Did Richard Feynman say that if all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week?

Awarded Aug 13 at 0:47

Nate Eldredge

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Is there a depiction of Lucifer in the Vatican Necropolis?

Awarded Aug 9 at 9:36

Laurel

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Did Emperor Norton ever kneel in defiance of racist mobs?

Awarded Aug 7 at 16:06

Avery

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As of 26 July 2023, will four million US citizens turn 18 before the US presidential election (5 November 2024)?

Awarded Jul 27 at 22:42

Laurel

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Could bread be baked in a mailbox when the temperature is 100°F (37°C)?

Awarded Jul 20 at 20:40

Comic Sans Strikephim

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Are Jewish students over-represented at Harvard University?

Awarded Jul 18 at 1:41

SIMEL

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

Awarded Jul 12 at 8:17

Sean Duggan

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Did the Covid vaccines lower fertility rates via causing infertility?

Awarded Jul 10 at 5:33

Weather Vane

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Was the Jenkins Continuous Build Integration server named after Tom Jenkins, Thomas Jefferson's slave master?

Awarded Jul 4 at 19:40

Flimzy

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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?

Awarded Jul 1 at 18:06

thelawnet

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Is the diner slang in this scene real?

Awarded Jun 30 at 18:47

Laurel

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Did Minecraft sell 600 million copies?

Awarded Jun 29 at 16:56

Kamil Drakari

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Was Mr. Beast invited to ride the Titan submarine?

Awarded Jun 28 at 19:31

Avery

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Did the grandson of John Rabe receive medicine from China during the start of COVID?

Awarded Jun 23 at 15:11

Jörg W Mittag

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Did Andrew Tate claim his job was to seduce women and get them on a webcam?

Awarded Jun 23 at 7:08

Laurel

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Have US Congress and US Supreme Court ruled vaccines to be "unavoidably unsafe"?

Awarded Jun 21 at 0:16

Avery

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Does the "survivorship bias" airplane diagram come from World War II research on returning war planes?

Awarded Jun 18 at 23:42

Polygnome

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Is the word "field" part of the trigger warnings in US universities?

Awarded Jun 18 at 14:11

paradisi

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Did a study find that girls who received the DTP vaccine had ten times the death rate compared to unvaccinated girls?

Awarded Jun 17 at 19:52

Avery

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Did the ACLU prepare a lawsuit against The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem for gender discrimination?

Awarded Jun 16 at 7:05

CJR

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Did Tsar Nicholas II really call for a "short, victorious war"?

Awarded Jun 15 at 10:26

Alex Mayants

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Is Intelligent Design falsifiable?

Awarded Jun 6 at 22:55

Schwern

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Are rape vans real?

Awarded Jun 5 at 8:26

Oddthinking♦

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Is it possible to increase the breast size of a woman through massage?

Awarded May 30 at 13:00

Reubend

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Is legal induced abortion significantly more safe than childbirth?

Awarded May 28 at 19:12

Schwern

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Did Nelson Mandela read The Economist in prison?

Awarded May 27 at 11:50

Oddthinking♦

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Does California allow (or plan to allow) post-birth abortion?

Awarded May 26 at 9:58

Schwern

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Did Hitler say "Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies"?

Awarded May 20 at 16:27

LangLаngС

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Did the number of U.S. Food & Drug Administration food safety inspections fall from the 1972 to 2006?

Awarded May 20 at 16:27

David Hammen

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In the event of a siren warning the public of a gas leak, is it actually advisable to listen to the radio when smelling gas?

Awarded May 9 at 8:20

Ray Butterworth

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Did Macron say in 2019 it is better to make concessions to Russia on Ukraine rather than let Russia fall in Beijing's orbit?

Awarded Apr 29 at 21:57

Gwen

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Is money being spent globally being reduced by going cashless?

Awarded Apr 6 at 23:58

IMSoP

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Is the honey bee apocalypse real?

Awarded Apr 6 at 9:22

jeffronicus

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Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man” or “one small step for a man”?

Awarded Mar 25 at 10:20

Paul Johnson

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Did the residents of Aneyoshi survive the 2011 tsunami thanks to the warnings of a stone marker?

Awarded Mar 24 at 0:21

Danila Smirnov

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Did United 93 passenger Jeremy Glick call with a cellular phone on 9/11?

Awarded Mar 21 at 16:33

phoog

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Did the WHO deliberately skip the letters Xi and Nu when naming the latest COVID-19 variant Omicron?

Awarded Mar 13 at 0:35

Avery

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Did Louis Pasteur admit on his deathbed "Bernard [the inventor of terrain theory] was right"?

Awarded Feb 21 at 13:04

Avery

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Did Biden say that the Boeing-Air India deal will support 1 million jobs?

Awarded Feb 18 at 21:57

Fizz

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Do scammers intentionally use poor spelling and obvious mistakes to filter out non-gullible people?

Awarded Feb 15 at 4:35

Laurel

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Is the stone used for Ram temple construction 65 million years old?

Awarded Feb 14 at 0:32

Danila Smirnov

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Is the shadow on this Dracula billboard cast by the stakes?

Awarded Feb 12 at 23:13

Schwern

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Did the CIA blow up the Nordstream 1 pipeline, using BALTOPS 22 as cover?

Awarded Feb 12 at 20:21

PhillS

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Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?

Awarded Feb 7 at 20:42

CJR

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Did Henry Ford say, "Jews control the business..."?

Awarded Feb 7 at 10:06

tim♦

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Did JK Rowling ever describe Harry Potter goblins as "hook-nosed"?

Awarded Feb 6 at 23:27

Laurel

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Did Napoléon Bonaparte ask his wife Josephine not to bathe for several days in a letter before his arrival?

Awarded Feb 2 at 13:07

Laurel

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Does the expression "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" come from a 1944 cereal marketing campaign?

Awarded Feb 1 at 18:15

Laurel

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Did Charlie Chaplin write this letter to his daughter?

Awarded Feb 1 at 10:42

pericles316

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Are George Santos and Gretchen Whitmer the same person?

Awarded Jan 30 at 12:17

David Hammen

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Are pregnant women seven times more likely to die if they get Covid-19?

Awarded Jan 23 at 16:27

quarague

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Do nano silver bead laundry mashers effectively clean laundry?

Awarded Jan 21 at 19:36

Brian

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Are Luther and Calvin responsible for executing more humans than the Catholic Inquisition?

Awarded Jan 21 at 13:46

Timmetje

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Can female virgins be legally executed in Iran?

Awarded Jan 20 at 22:40

DavePhD

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