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Yes and no.

Yes, information can travel with infinite speed.

No, cause-effect relationship cannot travel faster than light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality

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> Yes and no.

Could a QM answer be otherwise?

The idea that QM means anything can happen is a popular misconception, at a very basic level the probaility P(X) of X happening can quite happily be zero.

I think this was more a joke about superpositions than "anything can happen"

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