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A note from Cecil Adams about The Straight Dope
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Can Congress override a presidential pardon?
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Where did two-letter postal abbreviations come from?
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Why is Asian earwax different from black and white people’s earwax?
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Origin Stories
How did “nuts” and “bananas” come to mean “crazy”?
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Drugs
Why does South America grow all the coca?
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Crime, police and the law
How often do emergency vehicles get into accidents?
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Is there a link between the Zika virus and toxoplasmosis?
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How dangerous are cows?
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Is there a link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer?
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What’s so bad about processed foods?
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