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Did cobblers nail Thomas Paine's initials into shoes to scorn him?

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Are 95% of engineers in India unfit for software development jobs?

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Is the USA the largest trading partner of Vietnam nowadays?

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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?

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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?

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Did Brazilian football fans take their own lives inside the stadium after the loss to Uruguay in 1950?

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Are cheap scallops made from flounders or stingrays?

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Did Hippocrates make a statement similar to "like cures like"?

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Is this the sound of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption?

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Has 90% of ice around Antarctica disappeared in less than a decade?

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Does one in six Americans struggle with hunger?

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

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Did Plato and Socrates discuss picking the largest ear of wheat in a wheat field?

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Was the Anarchist Cookbook created by the FBI/CIA to sabotage insurgency?

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Was the 2023 Ohio train derailment the 'worst environmental disaster in US history'?

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Do the military have the technology to trigger earthquakes?

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Can the Lifewave Patch reset stem cells to a younger, healthier state?

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Is there any correlation between sleeping position and personality?

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Did the US Patent Office issue a patent for a stick?

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

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Was Mozart a music pirate?

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Are electric stoves less energy-efficient than gas stoves?

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Did Christine Ford testify both that she drank alcohol and didn't drink alcohol at the party where she was assaulted?

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Does an official UK government report show 'Hope Not Hate' as a radical extremist hate group?

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Is stevia detrimental to reproductive function?

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

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Did Jeffrey Epstein take his own life?

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

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Have there been more books written about Napoleon Bonaparte than days have passed since his death?

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Were 400 people arrested in Russia for social media posts in 2018?

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Is the self-driving car technology of 2017 less lethal than human drivers?

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

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

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Did Neil Gorsuch found the ‘Fascism Forever Club’ while in school?

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Was Air Force sergeant Jonathan Lovette abducted in 1956 by a UFO and left mutilated?

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Are vegetable oils "worse" for your health than cigarettes?

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Did Bertrand Russell spend 360 pages in Principia Mathematica to prove 1 + 1 = 2?

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

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Do cows get blown through the air by tornadoes?

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Was phrenology taught in schools in Nazi Germany?

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Does global warming trap as much heat as 600,000 Hiroshima-class bombs every day?

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Has natural gas "reduced carbon emissions from power generation by 38%" in Ohio?

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Has a bone marrow transplant caused confusion in criminal investigations?

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Have Russian conscripts been told they are "fighting Poland"?

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How many grandchildren does Joe Biden have?

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Did Richard Feynman say that anyone who claims to understand quantum physics is lying or crazy?

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Do calcified water heaters use more energy?

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Are more than a billion umbrellas thrown away every year?

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Is "virtually all the chicken meat we eat" from female birds?

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Is an Instant Pot sufficient for "scientific sterilization"?

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Can taking Cialis cure Erectile Dysfunction permanently?

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Do colder temperatures increase our hunger?

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Is Stanford's "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" real?

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Did Jewish ritual circumcision become a more invasive procedure in 140 CE?

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Did the Ontario College of Psychologists demand that Jordan P Peterson attend 'communication retraining'?

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Can using heated car seats reduce fertility?

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Did UK police agree to drop sex-offense charges in exchange for an apology?

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Does the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine destroy natural immunity in children?

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Was "red, gold, and green" used to display gay pride?

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