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Have one in four American women had an abortion?
From Reuters today, in the article Supreme Court conservatives appear willing to gut abortion rights:
About one in four American women has had an abortion, [attorney Julie] Rikelman added.
According to the article, this statement was made during…
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Did Parker Pens release an advertisement in Spanish that accidentally implied their pens would prevent pregnancy?
I've heard some variation of this story a handful of times: an advertisement for a pen was meant to claim that it wouldn't leak in your pocket and embarass you, but in Spanish, they used the word embarazada, which means…
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Did Louis Pasteur keep a gun in the laboratory while developing the rabies vaccine?
Is it true that while developing the vaccine for rabies Louis Pasteur kept a gun in his laboratory and had instructed all his lab assistants to shoot anyone in the head who accidentally got infected with the virus?
I could only find this in a Reddit…
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Do the murder statistics of 5 cities bring the USA to the 3rd highest country, from 189th?
I'd like to know if the claims about murders are accurate.
The "3rd in murders" is clearly referring to absolute deaths by murder, as it can be seen here, USA holds the 96th position for rate of intentional homicide.
So if the murders from these…
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Is the election apparatus in Georgia run by Democrats?
During a press conference around 6:30pm in Washington DC today on 5th of November 2020, President Trump stated that the election apparatus in Georgia is run by Democrats.
I have transcribed the quote with some context here:
In Georgia a pipe burst…
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Do we perceive time to pass faster as we age?
I heard that many times and I really have that sensation. Does anyone have a good explanation why that is?
Psychologists assert that time seems to go faster with age, but the literature on this age-related perception of time remains controversial.
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Did Trump salute 600 times at the West Point commencement exercise before using two hands to drink water?
At the Tulsa rally of June 20th, Donald Trump defended his apparent difficulty tilting a glass of water with his right hand by saying his arm was tired from saluting 600 times.
“They said you couldn’t lift your hand up to your mouth with water,”…
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Have Antifa members used an inverted red triangle as a symbol?
Facebook recently removed an advert for Donald Trump's re-election campaign that prominently featured an image of an inverted red triangle. Nazi Germany used an almost identical symbol to label communists and other political opponents, and the…
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Did the Trump administration propose new cuts to the health budget in February 2020?
As quoted in an interview:
Chomsky described the Trump administration’s approach to the problem as “surreal.”
“So in February, the pandemic is already raging. Everyone outside the United States recognizes it … Right in the middle of February, Trump…
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Did French police fine homeless persons for not being confined at home in March 2020?
As mentioned in Are all French citizens who go outside their home legally required to carry official papers with a reason why they are out (Covid-19 lockdown)?
, in France, people need to stay at home, and carry the paper if not. The paper will…
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Do children who kill animals turn out to be violent?
It is widely claimed that children who injure or kill animals as children are more likely to exhibit violent behavior as adults, committing domestic violence or murder. A site dedicated to discussing "killer kids" describes "cruelty to animals &…
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Did the UK government pay "millions and millions of dollars" to try to snag Julian Assange?
In a Fox News broadcast (timestamp 2:59), Greg Palkot (London-based senior foreign affairs correspondent for Fox News) said of Julian Assange:
"He has cost the UK government and security forces, police here, millions and millions of dollars.…
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Did Canada "mandate the content of voluntary speech"?
In this clip with Jordan Peterson conversing with Russel Brand, Peterson says, (3m:57s)
The government, for the first time in the history of Canada and really in a move that was unprecedented in English Common Law, under English Common Law,…
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Is driving the speed limit on a highway safer?
I'd have thought this would have been asked already but I didn't see it. Is driving the speed limit safer on a highway? By "highway" I mean high-traffic areas, such as 4-lane divided thoroughfares.
Having commuted for some time, I've noticed that…
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Did wind power supply less than half a percent of global energy in 2014?
From The Spectator: Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy:
Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the…
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