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Is it true that the saying “the first pancake is lumpy” is associated with bears?

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Is it true that the dogs in Dzerzhinsk turned blue due to chemicals?

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Is it true that the Stanford Prison Experiment was disproved?

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Is it true that because of the fight against racism in US schools, they no longer require correct solutions in math lessons?

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Is it true that pandemics occur in the world once every hundred years?

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Is it true that, according to the World Bank methodology, 70% of Russians belong to the middle class?

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Is it true that glass can be broken by a human voice?

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Is it true that Ukraine will send a “gay battalion” to Donbass?

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Is it true that the drunken Marshal Bulganin forced the generals to kiss the pantaloons of the ballerinas?

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Is it true that multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt, miraculously missing the Titanic, later died on the Lusitania?

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Is it true that we managed to photograph a snake that swallowed a Kalashnikov assault rifle?

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Did Peter I issue a decree that a subordinate should look dashing and stupid in front of his superiors?

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