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Does every species get around a billion heartbeats on average?

Awarded Apr 21, 2023 at 13:34

rumtscho

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Does America not lead the world in mass shootings?

Awarded May 29, 2022 at 21:10

James G.

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Have mathematicians concluded that an Indian mathematical physicist has solved the Riemann Hypothesis?

Awarded Jul 2, 2021 at 16:10

justauser

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Did eight Jesuit priests survive the nuking of Hiroshima without serious injury?

Awarded May 26, 2021 at 7:17

gaazkam

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Did the UK homicide rate go up after handgun ownership was banned?

Awarded May 26, 2021 at 5:51

Bob Tway

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Was this 4th grader's creationist quiz on "Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel" real?

Awarded May 1, 2021 at 6:17

TomOnTime

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Do 90% of employees who accept a counteroffer still end up leaving after a year?

Awarded Apr 14, 2021 at 18:59

pacoverflow

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Do vote counts for Joe Biden in the 2020 election violate Benford's Law?

Awarded Nov 9, 2020 at 21:57

Jacob Hoffman

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Does the production of a Tesla battery produce as much CO2 as driving 200,000 km?

Awarded Jul 28, 2020 at 17:32

user1721135

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Do facemasks cause CO2 poisoning?

Awarded Jul 16, 2020 at 19:50

SE Does Not Like Dissent

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Has Phil Karlton ever said "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"?

Awarded Jul 16, 2020 at 19:42

Vitor De Mario

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Is the Amazon rainforest the "world's lungs"?

Awarded Aug 28, 2019 at 18:45

Wasabi

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In the American west—the world of cowboys and cowhands—was ammunition traded for alcoholic “shots” of a drink?

Awarded Jun 21, 2019 at 3:50

Giacomo1968

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Did 20% of US soldiers in Vietnam use heroin, 95% of whom quit afterwards?

Awarded Jun 6, 2019 at 19:55

d-b

Is bread bad for ducks?

Awarded Apr 10, 2019 at 16:10

user48565

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Did Amazon pay $0 in US taxes in 2018?

Awarded Mar 7, 2019 at 21:50

Noah Cristino

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Was Opportunity's last message to Earth "My battery is low and it's getting dark"?

Awarded Feb 19, 2019 at 10:10

Prometheus

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Does YouTube delete video dislikes?

Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 7:30

mic

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Were children safer in the good old days?

Awarded Jan 16, 2019 at 7:50

Rory Alsop

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Can you predict a number that is "randomly" chosen by a person better than chance?

Awarded Jan 14, 2019 at 8:40

10 Replies

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Are these claims about Japan’s health system true?

Awarded Jan 5, 2019 at 15:10

user1605665

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Would the top 100 men in most physical sports beat each of the top 100 women?

Awarded Dec 31, 2018 at 7:35

I. Haage

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Did Republicans take 10 of 13 Congressional seats in the 2018 North Carolina general election with roughly the same number of votes as Democrats?

Awarded Nov 14, 2018 at 18:30

DJClayworth

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Does Amazon use Oracle instead of AWS to run their business?

Awarded Nov 10, 2018 at 6:40

Christian

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Do 10 Asian and African rivers generate 90% of plastic trash in the ocean?

Awarded Sep 24, 2018 at 8:30

Tom M

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Did close to 3,000 Puerto Ricans die in Hurricane Maria?

Awarded Sep 20, 2018 at 16:05

Keshav Srinivasan

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Was there Cyrillic text visible on Intel 386 chips after decapping?

Awarded Sep 15, 2018 at 20:40

0xC0000022L

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Does the US spend more public money (i.e. tax/capita) on Health Care than other developed countries?

Awarded Sep 4, 2018 at 20:20

Gazzer

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Is the Earth 6000 years old?

Awarded Aug 16, 2018 at 15:20

Mark Rogers

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Is this news article from 1912, essentially explaining climate change, real?

Awarded Aug 15, 2018 at 16:02

user50849

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Is smoking weed bad for your health?

Awarded Aug 8, 2018 at 5:45

smzs

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Are crime rates up by 10% in Germany?

Awarded Jun 26, 2018 at 14:10

hiergiltdiestfu

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Have more Americans been killed in schools than in military service this year?

Awarded May 23, 2018 at 22:40

mgarciaisaia

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Did US flags on the moon turn white?

Awarded Apr 29, 2018 at 4:16

Greg Mike

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Do these pictures depict David Hogg after two separate crises?

Awarded Feb 27, 2018 at 11:16

F1Krazy

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Are violent video games a better explanation of school shootings than access to guns?

Awarded Feb 23, 2018 at 8:38

matt_black

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Were there 18 school shootings in the US from Jan 1 to Feb 14, 2018?

Awarded Feb 17, 2018 at 20:12

jkf

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Are 19.6 pounds of CO2 produced from burning a gallon of gasoline?

Awarded Jan 29, 2018 at 16:50

user1717828

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Does saying "sorry" after an accident count as legal admission of fault?

Awarded Jan 23, 2018 at 11:48

William Grobman

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Is the USA murder rate at a high? Specifically is it at a 45 year high?

Awarded Dec 18, 2017 at 17:17

ReasonablySkeptical

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Entire GOP voted against letting senators read the new tax bill?

Awarded Dec 8, 2017 at 23:39

KareemElashmawy

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Is a police officer 18x more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be by a police officer?

Awarded Dec 1, 2017 at 14:46

user42650

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Is a woman who dresses sexually suggestively more likely to get raped?

Awarded Nov 20, 2017 at 17:33

Christian

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Do the Finnish have a word for getting drunk alone in your underwear?

Awarded Oct 27, 2017 at 17:02

Common Guy

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Did JFK call himself a jelly donut in his famous Berlin speech?

Awarded Oct 23, 2017 at 5:05

anongoodnurse

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Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're a magician?

Awarded Oct 21, 2017 at 9:53

Golden Cuy

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Is alcohol beneficial in small amounts?

Awarded Oct 13, 2017 at 23:09

Patches

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Did Yuri Gagarin end up in critical condition after coming back to Earth due to the missing magnetic field?

Awarded Sep 17, 2017 at 17:00

PermanentGuest

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Are there more open jobs than available developers?

Awarded Jul 30, 2017 at 14:35

psr

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Does camera flash destroy art?

Awarded Jul 30, 2017 at 14:35

Hallaghan

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Could people perceive the color blue in ancient times?

Awarded Jul 18, 2017 at 7:35

o0'.

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Do coal plants release more radiation than nuclear power plants?

Awarded Jul 15, 2017 at 10:53

Mad Scientist♦

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Do solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear-power plants?

Awarded Jul 9, 2017 at 13:21

user5341

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Has the cure to cancer been hidden by pharmaceutical companies?

Awarded Jul 6, 2017 at 14:04

Huey

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Was pink a boy color and blue a girl color prior to the 20th century?

Awarded Jun 8, 2017 at 14:24

Jayson Virissimo

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Are some oceans so remote that the closest person is in the space station?

Awarded May 23, 2017 at 2:21

Gandalf

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Do wind turbines consume more energy than they produce in a lifetime?

Awarded Apr 27, 2017 at 13:45

OddDev

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Can drinking "harmonized" water prevent sunburn

Awarded Apr 16, 2017 at 13:11

Adam

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Was Pac-man originally named "Puck-man"?

Awarded Apr 7, 2017 at 8:09

xDaizu

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Are personal electronics a risk to commercial aviation?

Awarded Mar 15, 2017 at 20:38

DuckMaestro

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