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With Yahoo Answers officially going away, it's time to look at some of the incredibly stupid questions that got us here. Luckily, there will always be places on the internet for people who you hope are joking, but can't be quite sure that they are. Like these insane people on quora. Farewell Yahoo Answers. You didn't make us smarter so much as reveal how stupid we really are.

Asking questions is how we get to know each other, and some totally innocuous questions have a way of revealing more about people than you'd think. Sometimes they're good for revealing red flags during job interviews or getting to the bottom of an awkward and bad first date. Also, definitely make sure anyone in your social circle is on the right side of the shopping cart theory of morality.

Sometimes we're just not thinking and sometimes people are really just flat-out stupid. There are a lot of really dumb questions that get asked. People have almost too many stories about dumb things people said to have their intelligence questioned.

This thread asks the question, why would any God of Death every really need to be a bad guy? Why feel the need to speed things up if it's guaranteed to win in the end? These Tumblr users flesh out the idea of a death who's not that bad of a person. For some more creative tumblr musings on life and death and gods, here's a story about a selfless farmer with a heart of gold, as well as a tumblr thread on demons bonding over sandwiches.

Twitter user baileyanastas tells the story of a friend who went above and beyond for their extremely anxious friend in class. We have friends who say that they would "die for you, bro," but what about the ones who would risk looking really dumb for you? That's a mark of some good friendship.

For such a pointless and suggestive product, anyone who sells the Banana Bunker has to be ready to field a storm of joke questions. Buying stuff online can have its drawbacks, like this guy who just tried to order boxes. You never know what kind of product reviews you might get, like this review for electric knuckles that's a fight for the ages.

Sex education can be a shock to some kids, and being a teacher trying to get 40 children to not laugh every time you say "testicles" has to be a nightmare. A sex-ed class can become an absolute minefield even when kids aren't asking questions. They don't know any better, and that's the time and place for it, but everyone remembers the awkward questions that got asked in Sex Ed. You can't exactly blame someone's ignorance, but man people say some absurdly dumb things in complete seriousness.

Tumblr gets itself into some interesting rabbit holes regarding the mating habits of fictional creatures, like this Tumblr thread that asks the hard questions about centaurs. Tumblr never runs out of sci-fi concepts and questions, which result in some pretty creative threads like this one about how humans are durable space orcs.

Tumblr has a never ending interest in mythical creatures, and naturally, people are inclined to ask difficult questions. Since centaurs aren't a real thing, people just kind of use their imaginations, general concensus, math and doodles to get to the bottom of things. For another interesting one, here's the time a doctor on twitter asked where you would defibrillate a centaur.

Tour guides see tourists do some really dumb things. If there's one thing to take away from these, it's that tourists are dumb. Not just kinda dumb. But like, real simple. Like, can't find their own ass kind of dumb. After a while it gets sad realizing these are the kind of people who represent you around the world.

Reddit is never a predictable website. That said, we still get surprises from time to time when Redditors give an unexpected answer. Here are 8 thought-provoking, deep and especially weird answers to fairly normal questions on AskReddit. I mean, can we talk about the lollipops tidbit? What's that about! Anyway, prepare yourself to be surprised, because we sure were. 

When someone says something profoundly stupid, there's no sense in trying to argue with them. It's better to just let it happen and hope that life takes care of it.

There are no stupid questions. But there are absolutely ridiculous questions. These kids risked looking like complete idiots just so everyone else could know the truth. Hats off to these "fantastic" sex ed questions.

Someone get these people some smart pills!

They say that asking a question only makes someone a fool for a moment, but remaining silent makes someone a fool for a lifetime. These are pretty bad, though. And the sad part is that these people are all still walking around with a thousand other thoughts like these banging around in their skulls.