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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 fortune cookies come from China?

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Do modern doctors take the Hippocratic Oath?

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Did Ernest Hemingway say you should write drunk and edit sober?

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Is it true that the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin occurred because of wormy meat?

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Is it true that beer contains estrogen?

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

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Is it true that the USSR traded warships for Pepsi in the late 1980s?

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Is it true that encephalitis ticks were brought to the Far East by Japanese saboteurs?

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Is it true that it is safe to get vaccinated if you have antibodies after an illness?

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Is it true that the Egyptian pyramids at Giza were built by slaves?

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Is it true that the United States promised Gorbachev not to expand NATO to the east?

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