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86 Questions

Have phone scammers recorded “Yes” statements to fraudulently authorise payments?

Does this video show a water droplet in gravitational orbit?

Do snowballs snowball?

Is this popular optical illusion made of a grey-scale image with coloured lines?

Did the Allies reverse the threads on secret microfilm-hiding buttons to thwart the Germans?

Does a pear contain 600 times more formaldehyde than a vaccine?

Do ibuprofen or paracetamol cause hearing loss?

Is “tag” named for “touch and go”?

What is the failure rate of Solid-State Drives (SSD)?

Can venomous snakes be determined by these pupil, nostril and scale patterns?

Has fluoride been classified as a neurotoxin?

Did a nocebo study find that rashes could swap hands?

Do “sword-swallowers” swallow swords?

Do rapists think rape is normal?

Can the Overton Window be deliberately moved by espousing extremist views?

Did a Florida woman get 20 years jail for firing warning shots in the air?

Is using cruise-control dangerous in the rain?

Do police have easy access to building plans?

Is an ice-cream tub made of a single molecule?

Did a US court rule that the MMR vaccine causes autism?

Do light field cameras exist?

Can lions sense menstruating women?

Is this photo of Occupy Wall Street authentic?

Is this a true demonstration of using a stove to power a paper airplane?

Does pricking eggs before boiling them reduce cracking?

Did Desmond Tutu criticize African missionaries for stealing land?

Is Tehran suffering from a plague of mutant cat-sized rats?

Do wombats share their burrows during fires?

Did an Algerian man sue his new bride for not looking pretty without make-up?

Does regular exercise improve how you feel?