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Is it true that the Bloody Mary cocktail is named after Queen Mary Tudor?

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Is the story about English archers, the middle finger, and the origin of the expression fuck you true?

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Is it true that Vincent Van Gogh's ear was cut off by Paul Gauguin?

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Is it true that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion describe a real Jewish plot to take over the world?

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Is it true that French kings swore oaths on the Gospel from Anna Yaroslavna’s dowry?

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Is it true that Dumas the Father is Pushkin who faked his death?

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Did Napoleon say: “A people who do not want to feed their army will soon feed someone else’s”?

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Is it true that Picasso, on his 90th birthday, called himself not an artist, but “just an entertainer of the public”?

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Is it true that the photo shows an “electric car graveyard” in France?

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Is it true that the brother of Louis XIV was kept in an iron mask in the Bastille?

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Is it true that Smolensk peasants went to France to get vaccinated against rabies?

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Is it true that there is a photograph of Pushkin during his lifetime?

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