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Is it true that Margherita pizza was named after the Italian queen?

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Is it true that the English word f*** is actually an acronym?

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Is it true that among Americans who always wore a mask, 70.6% became ill with coronavirus, and among those who never wore one, only 3.9%?

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Is it true that frightened ostriches bury their heads in the sand?

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Is it true that you can’t get Mantu wet?

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Is it true that the execution of Polish officers in Katyn in 1940 was organized by the Germans?

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Is it true that in the 1988 photograph a young Putin is standing next to Reagan on Red Square?

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Is it true that Guillotin invented the guillotine?

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Was Giordano Bruno really burned for believing that the Earth was round and revolved around the Sun?

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Is it true that more people die each year from falling coconuts than from shark attacks?

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Is it true that the name Svetlana was invented by the poet Vasily Zhukovsky?

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Is it true that on the day of the death of Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan, his signature cry sounded all day on Red Square?

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