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Is drinking raw milk more dangerous than drinking pasteurized milk?
In Australia "raw milk", more commonly known as un-pasteurised milk, is mostly illegal for human consumption, except in one state, I do believe. The consensus appears to be that pasteurising the milk makes it safer to drink, but many argue (mostly…
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Did JK Rowling ever describe Harry Potter goblins as "hook-nosed"?
There's a persistent argument online that the goblins from Harry Potter are anti-semitic caricatures, and most critics focus in on the fact that Rowling allegedly presents them with hooked noses:
From Forbes:
While goblins are often depicted in…
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Are 99% of US beef cattle given steroids to promote faster growth?
Top google result The Meat You Eat: Steroid Use in Livestock claims
Each year, U.S. farmers raise some 36 million beef cattle. 99% of all beef cattle entering feedlots in the United States are given steroidal hormone implants to promote faster…
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Did wind and solar exceed expected power delivery during Winter Storm Uri?
From The Independent, "Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?"
Sure, some wind turbines and solar facilities have also been affected [during Winter Storm Uri],…
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Are broiler chickens injected with hormones in their left legs?
In my experience, when stores in Bulgaria sell raw chicken legs in packaging, they are always the left leg.
One explanation I have heard is that the left leg is inferior, because it is the site of injections:
Bulgarian news site, Flagman has a 2012…
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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
Christie's is a famous auction house. In their press release and marketing material, Christie's Voyage to Another World: The Victor Martrin-Malburet Photograph Collection, you can find the following claims
Lot 345, The only photograph of Neil…
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Do knives get dull in dishwashers?
Everybody keeps telling me don't put knives in dishwashers. And if I ask them why, nobody seems to have an answer or an argument to support his/her advice. So I thought I'll shoot the question to stackexchange:
Do knives get dull in dishwashers?
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Does wearing prescription eyeglasses weaken your eyes?
I just recently received my first pair of eyeglasses. My eye doctor stated that contrary to popular belief, that wearing the glasses will not weaken my eyes any further. However my sister-in-law went to her eye doctor just last week where her…
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Does a return economy-class seat between London and San Francisco release 5.28 tonnes of CO2 equivalents?
I took this self-survey of CO2 emissions run by the German Environment Agency.
It computes for example that an economy class seat from London to San Francisco and back – about 22 hours flight – accounts for 5.28 tonnes of CO2 equivalents (CO2eq or…
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Are white and non-white police officers equally likely to kill black suspects?
Well, that's the conclusion of a 2018 US study, as reported in the press:
"White officers do not kill black suspects at a higher rate compared with nonwhite officers," concludes a research team led by Charles Menifield, dean of the School of Public…
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Is "Earth Overshoot Day" a useful or reliable metric of humanity's effect on the world?
Apparently, we are rapidly approaching Earth overshoot day and that day gets earlier every year. The Guardian explains:
Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have…
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Does the owner of the Washington Post have a deal with the CIA worth 600 million dollars?
Jimmy Dore says in this video,
Their owner has a 600 million dollar deal with the CIA. Six hundred million dollars, how much is that Jimmy? That's three times what the Washington Post is fucking worth. He has a deal with the CIA, and they never put…
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Did Elvis consume 100,000 calories a day at the end of his life?
This ABC Science article by Dr Karl S. Kruszelnicki claims
Before he died, Elvis was eating about 100,000 calories per day!
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The basic element of Elvis' daily food intake was a 30-cm long bread
roll, stuffed with bacon, peanut butter and…
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Do 1.4 million Chinese people die each year because of air pollution?
This claim is made in an article published on december 18th on the online version of the French newspaper Le Monde.
Des études scientifiques ont estimé que près de 1,4 million de Chinois meurent chaque année, directement ou indirectement, de la…
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Was Mozart black?
Currently on Facebook and Tumblr I’ve stumbled onto this claim that Mozart was in fact black, and of African descent.
Is this true?
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