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Are military spy satellites as advanced as people think they are?

Awarded Jul 6, 2023 at 4:11

voithos

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Does a Michigan law make it a felony to purposefully use the wrong gender pronouns?

Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 15:26

Sylvia

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Did Oliver Kahn deny children's penalty goals and thus, charity money?

Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 16:11

OddDev

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Did Oppenheimer quote the Bhagavad Gita after the Trinity test?

Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 18:05

matt_black

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Does a human on a bicycle travel more efficiently than any other species?

Awarded Jun 23, 2023 at 2:36

Anko

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

Awarded Jun 21, 2023 at 10:51

Oddthinking♦

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Did Jason Padgett become a math genius after getting hit on the head?

Awarded Jun 21, 2023 at 8:40

rest_day

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Did CNN alter Joe Rogan's appearance in their coverage regarding his Covid-19 infection in late 2021?

Awarded Jun 16, 2023 at 18:05

pinegulf

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Is watering plants under a hot sun bad?

Awarded Jun 15, 2023 at 19:55

Ganesh Sittampalam

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Does the ratio of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere show that fossil fuels are not the dominant cause of global warming?

Awarded Jun 14, 2023 at 13:27

CuriousIndeed

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Did Camus say, "The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself"?

Awarded Jun 2, 2023 at 19:01

djechlin

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Does a 7000 year old ostrich eggshell held at the Nubian Museum depict a drawing of ancient Egyptian pyramids? If so, when was the drawing drawn?

Awarded May 19, 2023 at 2:48

John Strachan

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Is Donald Trump's ratio of bankruptcy to businesses consistent with the success rate of other entrepreneurs?

Awarded May 10, 2023 at 18:25

dsollen

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Did Marilyn Manson kill a chicken on stage?

Awarded May 9, 2023 at 15:50

Coomie

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Did Abner Schoenwetter spend 6.5 years in jail because he used plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes when importing lobsters from Honduras?

Awarded Apr 30, 2023 at 22:32

CuriousIndeed

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Were firearms prohibited in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870s?

Awarded Apr 22, 2023 at 23:06

Compro01

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Was "L" placed at the beginning of the LGBT acronym because of the AIDS crisis?

Awarded Apr 21, 2023 at 15:42

Avery

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Who said "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea"?

Awarded Apr 18, 2023 at 14:33

Orbis_Pictus

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Has Barack Obama achieved these goals in the last six years?

Awarded Apr 13, 2023 at 14:01

pericles316

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Was John Maynard Keynes a child molester?

Awarded Apr 9, 2023 at 18:21

Mark Rogers

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Were "ancient nanostructures" found in the Ural Mountains in 1991?

Awarded Apr 2, 2023 at 10:49

Ruslan Oblov

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Did Covid vaccines massively increase excess death in Australia in 2022?

Awarded Mar 29, 2023 at 22:31

TheAsh

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Is this a way to survive a lightning strike?

Awarded Mar 25, 2023 at 18:56

The very fluffy Panda

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Is it possible to recover data on a zeroed hard drive?

Awarded Mar 22, 2023 at 17:08

Dietrich Epp

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

Awarded Mar 11, 2023 at 0:11

Ruslan Oblov

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Does the Yulan Magnolia flower bud look like a bird?

Awarded Mar 2, 2023 at 11:47

Ponder Stibbons

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Does this video of collapsing warehouse shelves show a real incident?

Awarded Feb 24, 2023 at 6:08

Paul Johnson

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

Awarded Feb 23, 2023 at 9:25

Rebecca J. Stones

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

Awarded Feb 13, 2023 at 20:50

seldon

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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 8, 2023 at 20:10

Christian

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

Awarded Feb 8, 2023 at 8:57

GGMG-he-him

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Do races/ethnicities have different odors?

Awarded Feb 5, 2023 at 19:00

zakdegrassi

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Does one drop of nicotine kill a horse?

Awarded Feb 3, 2023 at 19:41

Quassnoi

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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 3, 2023 at 9:57

EpicBroccoli

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

Awarded Jan 31, 2023 at 9:50

Qiulang

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Did an Indian king claim to witness the moon split?

Awarded Jan 28, 2023 at 11:18

user34787

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Do cows get blown through the air by tornadoes?

Awarded Jan 27, 2023 at 13:42

Kevin Kostlan

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During the Iran-Iraq war, did the Iranians use small children to trip land mines planted by Iraq?

Awarded Jan 24, 2023 at 22:30

Robusto

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

Awarded Jan 20, 2023 at 0:15

benjimin

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Is Jesus Christ's birthday March 28th?

Awarded Jan 17, 2023 at 22:15

Shawn Holmes

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Were over 3,000 persons arrested in Britain for social media posts in 2018?

Awarded Jan 16, 2023 at 20:03

pinegulf

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Do removable faceplates on car stereos deter theft?

Awarded Jan 9, 2023 at 1:52

Flimzy

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Did KFC send out a “Kristallnacht” themed promotional deal to customers in Germany?

Awarded Dec 28, 2022 at 22:30

Giacomo1968

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

Awarded Dec 27, 2022 at 10:51

ralf htp

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Did the United States spend $118,000 to study if a metal replica of Thanos could snap his fingers?

Awarded Dec 27, 2022 at 4:07

Evan Carroll

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Determining your ancestry through the shape of your feet?

Awarded Dec 26, 2022 at 5:58

sashkello

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Has Zelensky "declared war against Christianity"?

Awarded Dec 25, 2022 at 10:56

quant

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Is Elon Musk's jet trackable using only public data?

Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 3:52

JonathanReez

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Is fish-flavored cat food bad/dangerous to a cat's health?

Awarded Dec 17, 2022 at 5:50

Kevin McCormick

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Do sandcastles kill more people than sharks?

Awarded Dec 8, 2022 at 10:40

lambshaanxy

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Did a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament prize card sell for $2 million USD?

Awarded Dec 6, 2022 at 17:55

Kevin Wang

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Did Elon Musk falsely claim to have a degree in science?

Awarded Dec 4, 2022 at 10:52

Obie 2.0

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Did Haribo sugar-free gummy bears cause a man to lose bowel control in a Toronto airport in April 2013?

Awarded Dec 3, 2022 at 16:01

nick012000

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Can we determine for sure if the Sun revolves around the Earth?

Awarded Dec 1, 2022 at 17:01

Benyamin

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Did Qatar spend 229 billion USD on the 2022 FIFA World Cup?

Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 19:57

Ege Erdil

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Can an iron + steam remove "heat stains" from a wood table?

Awarded Nov 28, 2022 at 22:04

slm

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Do the murder statistics of 5 cities bring the USA to the 3rd highest country, from 189th? [closed]

Awarded Nov 24, 2022 at 16:32

user2638180

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Was this quote on a clay tablet about unruly kids written by an Assyrian?

Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 22:47

Manu

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Has a human ever been eaten by an anaconda?

Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 1:57

Franck Dernoncourt

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Can burning potato peels clean a chimney?

Awarded Nov 21, 2022 at 3:33

Jonas Stein

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