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why is pork not used in pet food?

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do airport scanners endanger our health?

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do you really feel hungry after chinese food?

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are people fat because of hormones?

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can cupcakes make you drunk?

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has viagra reduced demand for aphrodisiacs?

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did loose lips really sink any ships?

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will hookworms relieve asthma?

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did the middle ages even happen?

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could buying out slave owners have stopped the civil war?

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could a nuclear power plant withstand a direct tornado strike?

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do i sweat a liter each night?

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how do i drill for oil in my backyard?

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is steel from scuttled german warships valuable because it isn’t contaminated with radioactivity?

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could an evil genius melt the polar ice caps?

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how much pollution do lawn mowers cause?

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can stormglasses predict the weather?

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does brown glass shield beer better?

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can you pay to be a scottish laird?

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is bacon more dangerous than cigarettes?

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can liquor be used as an emergency antiseptic?

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is the stench of massed zombies toxic?

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how much would i have to hollow out the earth to make the days longer?

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can gophers find gold?

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did the australian army once wage war on emus?

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are poor spellers stupid?

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did fire nets save lives?

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is colorblindness an evolutionary advantage?

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will working graveyard shifts send you there sooner?

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is the government spraying stuff into the atmosphere to protect us?

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whatever happened to that plan to grow square trees?

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what’s the best animal to slice open and crawl inside to stay warm?

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do humans use more energy than blue whales?

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are blue states smarter than red states?

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why video games are good for you

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can roads be built to last forever?

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is setting yourself on fire a good way to treat snakebite?

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are scientists trying to clone a woolly mammoth?

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did a magazine editor invent thanksgiving?

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how accurate are police sketches?

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can boxers land a 2000 psi punch?

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do microwave ovens kill bacteria?

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can we fight global warming with artificial global cooling?

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should irradiated milk be a worry?

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trouble with gps satellites and the straight dope on spf

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are some dogs racist?

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can you shatter a human body?

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is there such a thing as death by halibut?

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how should hand sanitizer be used?

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will using expired drugs kill you?

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what’s up with obnoxiously loud tv shows and commercials?

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can mother nature clean up oil spills?

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can binaural beats improve your mood?

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did native americans cut off the noses of adulterous wives?

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what is darpa hiding?

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straight dope on the bohemian grove

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does a guy’s mood synchronize with his girlfriend’s menstrual cycle?

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how much flatulence would it take to become airborne?

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what purpose do allergies serve?

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has an important battle ever been decided by single combat?

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was jesus copied from the egyptian god horus?

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can i avoid paying a tax bill by writing “accepted for value” on it?

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is mass transit a waste of energy?

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why does a blow to the testicles cause nausea?

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why is the letter z associated with sleep?

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are basements safe in tornadoes?

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does castration = longer life?

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how can water be wasted? doesn’t it automatically recycle?

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do polygraphs work?

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how much does air quality matter?

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does daylight saving time increase road kill?

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can white roofs help keep homes cooler?

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are hurricanes getting worse?

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do you burn more calories when you think hard?

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does asteroid mining threaten the earth?

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can rock music cook eggs?

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rebutting the fisheries rebuttal

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is wikipedia more reliable than the encyclopaedia britannica?

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is a cruise ship a cheap alternative to an old folks’ home?

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is marijuana stronger than it used to be?

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what’s the latest on peak oil?

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can we now transmute base substances into gold?

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can static electricity kill you?

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does teething cause fever?

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how problematic is peak phosphorus?

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can alien beings listen in on tv and radio broadcasts from earth?

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did the creator of the schmidt sting pain index volunteer to get stung by everything on earth?

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has a passenger ever landed a plane after the pilot was incapacitated?

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why do humans have so little body hair?

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could an electromagnetic pulse disrupt civilization?

Will coke and asparagus cure kidney stones? Are transsexuals mentally ill? Does cutting taxes create jobs? Are college students promiscuous? Do antidepressants only work because of the placebo effect? How to know which plants are poisonous? How common is pedophilia? Do pads and helmets increase rather than prevent football injuries? Why are images from space probes always in black and white? Have virgins ever been tossed into volcanoes to appease the gods? How did states get straight borders before gps? Can i seek sanctuary in a church? Why doesn’t the president freeze gas prices? Are compostable plastics better? Does the camera really add ten pounds? Did washington and jefferson grow pot? Do truth serums work? Are shrinks nuts? Do fire departments really rescue cats from trees? What happens if you get sucked into a black hole?

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