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Has the time available to escape a house fire decreased significantly due to "modern furniture"?
The Facebook page QI - Quite Interesting has approximately 390 thousand followers. It posted a claim in December 2022 about the time available to escape a house on fire.
It claims a dramatic decrease due to the "flammability of modern furniture" but…
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Has a mole stored over a thousand earthworms in its underground larder?
On the wikipedia article for moles, I found some remarkable assertions:
Because their saliva contains a toxin that can paralyze earthworms, moles are able to store their still-living prey for later consumption. They construct special underground…
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Did a US school test ask this question about norms in Chinese culture?
OpenDemocracy.net presents this as a question that has recently been asked of 12-year-old children in a US school:
It is described so:
A IS FOR ANTI-ASIAN
A worried Korean American woman recently posted a screenshot of a classroom test her 12 year…
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Did protesters block metal detectors at Trump's Tulsa rally?
"Sadly, protesters interfered with supporters, even blocking access to
the metal detectors, which prevented people from entering the rally,"
Tim Murtaugh, the campaign's communications director, said in a
statement.
Source
Is there any proof of…
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Is COVID-19 more dangerous than typical annual coronavirus variants?
I have heard many people claim in private that COVID-19 is not worse than flu and that the reaction is overblown.
As a poster-child example of this, I want to analyze the claims made by the German pulmonologist Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg in this video.…
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Does the AMA limit the number of doctors to increase current doctors' salaries?
A suggested reason why doctors get paid so much more in the US as opposed to other developed countries is that the American Medical Association (AMA) artificially limits the physician supply in order to drive up salaries. I found this article which…
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Did President Obama state he was close to starting a war with North Korea?
President Trump said this in a press conference on Friday:
I believe [President Obama] would have gone to war with North Korea. I think he was ready to go to war. In fact, he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea.
I’m…
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Was anyone murdered, disappeared, or died suspiciously to cover up the Deepwater Horizon disaster?
This recent Tumblr post claims that multiple activists and scientists were murdered or died under extremely suspicious circumstances, including one person being found dead and mutilated in a dumpster, after they studied or criticized the response to…
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Is it possible to reliably examine if a girl is a virgin?
Amnesty International wants the Egyptian military to stop the practice of rounding up all the female protesters to investigate if their hymens are unbroken as a virginity check:
An Amnesty International researcher said accounts gathered from women…
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Does Germany have a peace treaty and a constitution?
Reichsbürger have recently made the news in Germany. These are people who are convinced that the Federal Republic of Germany is not a sovereign state and therefore has no authority over them. This makes them believe they can defy court orders,…
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Can the US be powered by a 100 miles x 100 miles solar grid?
In this article Elon Musk is quoted to say that the US can be powered by a solar grid shaped as a square (in video he says "a corner of Utah or Nevada") 100 miles x 100 miles big.
“If you wanted to power the entire United States with solar panels,…
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Do four random common words make a stronger password than passwords like "Tr0ub4dor&3"?
In xkcd comic #936, Randall Munroe claims that passwords like "Tr0ub4dor&3" (uncommon base word, caps, common letter substitutions with a number and punctuation suffix) has ~28 bits of entropy, while taking four random common words, like "correct…
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Can you lose child access in Germany because you made "xenophobic" comments?
AnonymousNews has a claim in German that making xenophobic comments online or being involved in protests may cause you to lose access to your children.
Wer „fremdenfeindliche“ Aussagen auf Facebook tätigt oder gegen „Flüchtlingsheime“ demonstriert,…
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Has France ever won a war?
France is commonly made fun of for not having won a war, for instance when they rejoined NATO and the daily mail made fun of them:
Why did the French celebrate their World Cup in 1998 so wildly?
It was their first time they won anything without…
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Did a survey of conservative Christians show 85% would disown their child if they turned out to be homo sapiens?
This Facebook post, attributed to the The Atheist Advocate, says:
We polled over 10,000 conservative Christians
"What would you do, if you discovered that your child was a homo sapien?"
85% said they would disown them and force them to leave their…
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