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Why is there no night shift in Monsters, Inc.?

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Starship Enterprise: Always flying left-to-right?

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How did so much research / knowledge exist on the One Ring (the papers which Gandalf consults after seeing Bilbo)?

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Humorous essay on dystopian novel tropes

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Has Superman ever turned against humanity and been stopped?

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Why does it say “Skywalker” in this shot of Bradley Cooper recording the voice of Rocket Racoon?

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Why did Dumbledore pretend to not understand post-time-travel Harry and Hermione?

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The different names of Mordor

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Why is “Use the term 'bro-code'” accounted for a negative score in The Good Place?

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Why did Lupin make Harry practice his Patronus on a Boggart/Dementor?

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Need source for the inverse of “Clarke's Third Law”

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What happened to the Nazgul after they were swept away by the river?

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Is there a Robert Heinlein story where man throws his shorts while in free fall in a space station to float over to a wall using the reaction?

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Sci-fi movie about robots killing sad people

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Do genies exist in the Harry Potter world?

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What is Obi-Wan referring to when he says “five thousand”?

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Sci-fi book about humanity barely winning a war with an alien race, after which the protagonist discovers some secrets about the conflict

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Sci-fi adventure novel set in the Yucatan, and based on the myth of Quetzalcoatl and aliens

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Who detonated the car bomb in the finale of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”?

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Short story about someone who reassembles a strange skeleton, finds themself turning into the same creature

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Animated movie (or series). A robot gives someone a flower. Floating islands

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Why didn't Hermione try to get Slughorn's memory?

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Why is it platform 9 3/4?

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Can you hear using a palantír or just see?

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90s film where the Devil impregnates a woman and she kills herself with glass on a balcony

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How long did the “beacon call” from Minas Tirith to Edoras take?

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Sci-fi story: they put humans in missiles/rockets

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WW2-era bureaucrats escaping nuclear war into Lovecraftian dimension

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When is an invisibility cloak invisible?

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How is the time of day referenced in Star Wars?

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Why would Windu say the Senate would decide the fate of Palpatine?

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science fiction story about scientists who create a personal force field which makes a halo appear around their heads when it is on [duplicate]

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Demons sealed in WWII Sherman tanks are released years later

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1950s short story with people recruited to fight in far future war

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Trying to find the source of this image of Wonder Woman, ensnared amid flames, with a face hovering over her

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A boy is kidnapped by space pirates and forced to be in their crew

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How can a small corvette shift big destroyers like this?

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Did Agnes move to Westview before or after the town was transformed?

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Movie about a homicidal monster that lives in a cave, who is actually a woman's son

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A man who sometimes works for the UN accidentally sells the Earth to an alien

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What made Qui-Gon Jinn really believe that Anakin Skywalker was the chosen one?

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What is the ultimate fate of the Unsullied and Dothraki?

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Story about the Earth being appraised as a work of art [duplicate]

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Final line: “…circumnavigated the Captain…” story id?

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Science Fiction Anthology, probably 70s

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Movie about a man who cheats on significant other, able to go back in time but ends up getting cheated on?

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Story where guests at dinner or a party cannot leave the table (and may or may not turn into animals)?

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How did Dennis Creevey get his Hogwarts acceptance letter?

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