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Did Obama say the USA is "no longer a Christian Nation"?
In 2007, did Barrack Obama declare that the USA "was no longer a Christian Nation"? This was in an email asking Christians to band together against Obama.
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Are these quotes by Malcom X, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict correct?
I've seen this image on Facebook, often these image macros are just made up, or misattributed quotes, what about in this case?
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#Free Palestine
The Zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no…
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Did Jews "take over" 73% of their land from Palestinians?
I found an article by Matt Giwer saying that the cause of the Israeli-Arab war is that
The Jews, [...] did in fact steal the land from the Palestinians. They actually bought and paid for at most 9% of it. In 1948 they took over 73% of it.
Did…
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Is Genetically Modified food safe to consume?
What's the truth surrounding the popular idea that genetically modified food is dangerous to consume?
There's entire websites and institutions dedicated to popularizing the alleged dangers of eating genetically modified food, such as GMO Awareness,…
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Are men smarter than women?
I recently stumbled across the following article:
Sorry, men ARE more brainy than women (and more stupid too!) It's a simple scientific fact, says one of Britain's top dons, in which the author claims:
1. That men are on average smarter than…
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Does the DNA of one sperm contain 37.5 MB of information?
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In an episode of the BBC show QI - Quite Interesting (Series J, Episode 1) Stephen Fry said:
How much information do you think is in the DNA of one little sperm...?
It's 37.5 MB...
...a normal male ejaculation, if there is such a thing,…
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Does the Quran advise men to beat their wives if they disobey them?
I found this post on Reddit in which it is mentioned that the Quran advises men to beat their wives if they do not obey them.
This is a quote from the link:
Surah 4:34: "Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has
given one over the…
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Is Fukushima reactor No. 4 on the verge of catastrophic failure that will destroy the world?
I was sent an email with a copied/pasted version of this NaturalNews article which contains the following quote (emphasis original):
Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons? None…
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Do dolphins have homosexual "blowhole" sex?
In his comedy act, Ricky Gervais shows examples of homosexuality in nature, all of them from the book "Biological Exuberance, animal homosexuality and natural diversity" by Bruce Bagemihl. One of the examples is homosexuality among dolphins, having…
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Were metered taxis busy roaming Imperial Rome?
While in Rome, I heard a claim that Ancient Romans had invented the taxi meter.
"Ancient" here means the common usage of "a long time ago" instead of a specific historical period such as the Early Republic.
Claim: Ancient Roman taxis had meters. …
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How long is it possible to maintain concentration?
When I study, I like to do it in blocks of a few hours, with little rests in between. I have heard from multiple (possibly unreliable) sources, however, that a human's concentration will drastically drop after 45 minutes.
I find it doubtful that…
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What are the scientifically established effects of Daylight Saving Time?
Since the US recently went on to DST, I thought it'd be appropriate to ask this:
I've heard many claims made about DST, ranging from "It saves electricity" to "It balances out daylight hours" to "It gives people more sunlit free time in the…
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What risks exist with GMO, but not with selective breeding?
Anytime you hear Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) come up, someone always pipes in that it's perfectly safe because we've been doing it for thousands of years through selective breeding. Intuitively this sounds a lot like saying we've had solar…
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Is it impossible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than seven times?
It's a commonly stated belief that no one can fold a piece of paper in half after doing so seven times. Even I have been unable to fold a piece of normal paper for an 8th time.
Is this true for normal (A4/newspaper) sized-paper?
I would also be…
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Was an Alaskan college student expelled three days after refusing to sell a landmark heating discovery to industry?
According to a recent advertisement named Nov 03 making its rounds on YouTube (I saw it today attached to another video I wanted to watch), a college student named Martin from Fairbanks, Alaska was expelled after developing EcoHeat, a "device that…
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