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"Elvis has left the building." Who said it first?
By Cecil Adams
December 27, 2002
Does menstrual synchrony really exist?
By Cecil Adams
December 20, 2002
Does the center high-mounted stop lamp reduce rear-end collisions? What are growing pains?
By Cecil Adams
November 29, 2002
Can twins be born a month or two apart?
By Cecil Adams
November 8, 2002
Were there really vomitoriums in ancient Rome?
By Cecil Adams
November 1, 2002
What's in female ejaculate?
By Cecil Adams
October 25, 2002
Was Andrew Jackson one of the world's most prolific mass murderers?
By Cecil Adams
October 18, 2002
Is "toxic mold" the next environmental threat?
By Cecil Adams
October 11, 2002
Do Chinese lack sweat glands in their armpits? Why does spicy food make you sweat?
By Cecil Adams
October 4, 2002
How can a Nazi jerk like Martin Heidegger be considered the most influential philosopher of the 20th century?
By Cecil Adams
September 27, 2002
Why do women experience menopause?
By Cecil Adams
September 20, 2002
Is there a bush that spontaneously bursts into flame to reproduce?
By Cecil Adams
September 13, 2002
What's the story on trepanation?
By Cecil Adams
September 6, 2002
After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows?
By Cecil Adams
August 30, 2002
Are women paid less than men for the same work?
By Cecil Adams
August 23, 2002
Do CDs have a life expectancy of 10 years?
By Cecil Adams
August 16, 2002
Is it possible to get "bruised ovaries" during sex?
By Cecil Adams
August 9, 2002
Can a microwave oven cause a pacemaker to malfunction?
By Cecil Adams
August 2, 2002
How come Howard Hughes's "Spruce Goose" flew only once?
By Cecil Adams
July 26, 2002
Is the world more dangerous now than when we were kids?
By Cecil Adams
July 12, 2002
Did Carlos Castaneda hallucinate that stuff in the Don Juan books or make it up?
By Cecil Adams
June 21, 2002
Was Joseph Stalin once a seminarian?
By Cecil Adams
June 14, 2002
Why are women always cold?
By Cecil Adams
June 7, 2002
Were WWII scrap drives just a ploy to boost morale?
By Cecil Adams
May 31, 2002
Would I find "Vaudeville" on a map?
By Cecil Adams
May 24, 2002
What's the big deal about offshore banks?
By Cecil Adams
May 17, 2002
Is Paul Bunyan a fraud?
By Cecil Adams
May 10, 2002
Do crocodiles shed tears? (revisited)
By Cecil Adams
May 3, 2002
Will smoking banana peels get you high?
By Cecil Adams
April 26, 2002
Do plants excrete?
By Cecil Adams
April 19, 2002
What's up with those Indian widows who commit suttee?
By Cecil Adams
April 5, 2002
Were 40% of Native American women forcibly sterilized in the 1970s?
By Cecil Adams
March 22, 2002
Update: What are your chances of getting HIV?
By Cecil Adams
March 1, 2002
Do Egyptians burn mummies as fuel?
By Cecil Adams
February 22, 2002
Does my cell phone company keep track of me wherever I go?
By Cecil Adams
February 15, 2002
Can water be too pure? Is too much water bad for you?
By Cecil Adams
February 8, 2002
Did New York once have a transvestite governor?
By Cecil Adams
January 25, 2002
What gives with Fifth Third Bank?
By Cecil Adams
January 18, 2002
What's up with the Indian rope trick and the bed of nails?
By Cecil Adams
January 11, 2002
What mountain is depicted in the Paramount logo? Why do women laugh hysterically?
By Cecil Adams
January 4, 2002
What's the story with vaginal foreign bodies?
By Cecil Adams
December 21, 2001
In the Third World, do people wipe with their left hands? Plus: G-spot update
By Cecil Adams
November 30, 2001
Is it true turtles breathe through their butts?
By Cecil Adams
November 16, 2001
How long does a smallpox vaccination protect you?
By Cecil Adams
November 9, 2001
Can dogs and cats really find their way home over long distances, as in "Incredible Journey"?
By Cecil Adams
November 2, 2001
Was the legendary liqueur absinthe hallucinogenic?
By Cecil Adams
October 26, 2001
Are guinea pigs ever used as guinea pigs?
By Cecil Adams
October 12, 2001
Does shining a flashlight behind your knee prevent jet lag?
By Cecil Adams
October 5, 2001
Are there Kegel exercises for men? Plus: what does the KY in K-Y jelly stand for?
By Cecil Adams
September 28, 2001
Can the candirú fish swim upstream into your urethra (revisited)?
By Cecil Adams
September 7, 2001
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