Yahoo Answers
Crowdsourced advice site
Yahoo Answers was a question-and-answer website where users posted questions for other users to answer.
The platform became notorious for its bizarre, poorly worded, or comically obvious questions: How is babby formed?
Can I get pregnant from a swimming pool?
The site shut down in 2021, but screenshots of its most absurd exchanges circulate as internet humor.
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