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How accurate are fingerprints at identifying somebody?
In the movies, fingerprints identification always works, with no mistakes. How close is this to reality?
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Do we need to clean our ears (remove earwax)?
Last year, I read on a newspaper that a research found that we do not need, or should not, clean our ears as the earwax comes out naturally and sticking in cotton swabs can damage our ears.
Is my information accurate? Can anyone provide a summary…
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases per million and more non-Covid deaths per million…
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Did Florida manage a better COVID death rate than the US average despite strong resistance to prevention measures?
I was reading about Ron Desantis on Wikipedia and was a little surprised by the section about his handling of COVID-19 in Florida. It lists a huge number of actions to oppose standard COVID preventative measures, including outlawing mask and…
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Does flying a small GA aircraft use less fuel than driving the same distance by car?
This is a notable claim by Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU party and a member of the German parliament:
„Ich bereue nicht, dass ich zur Hochzeit von Christian Lindner geflogen bin. Um es mal auf den Punkt zu bringen: Mit meinem Kleinflugzeug…
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Was there recent book burning in Canada?
Australian new source News.com.au reports
On Tuesday, it was reported in Canadian media that in 2019 a “flame
purification ceremony” was held by the French language school board
Conseil scolaire catholique Providence, which oversees elementary…
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Is the quote "Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it." attributable to Peter Thiel?
The source is in this tweet by Tim Ferriss dated Sep 10, 2014. I've listened to the podcast referenced there (correct link) and searched the transcript of that podcast on YouTube, but couldn't find any of those six sentences.
Another "source" is…
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Did Wild West outlaws regularly wear face masks?
An article ("Westerners used to wear masks" by Andrew Gulliford, June 13, 2020) in The Journal of Cortez, Colorado, claims that it was a regular practice of bandits in the "Wild West" to wear facemasks while committing robberies. It claims:
Because…
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Do methamphetamines give more pleasure than other human experiences?
This WatchData infographic video lists
some of the worlds most pleasurable things ranked by how many dopamine units they produce
At the top of the list, methamphetamines with 1250 dopamine units, ranking higher than falling In love and winning The…
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Is spousal abuse primarily initiated by males?
Avoiding exceptions for same-sex couples, is abuse in heterosexual couples more commonly initiated by the husband? I am mostly interested in physical violence that is non-reciprocal. In other words, in a couple where only one spouse beats the other,…
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Can you recharge non-rechargeable alkaline batteries?
There are conflicting reports of whether it is possible to safely recharge alkaline batteries (not lithium) that are not sold as rechargable. The packaging for batteries regularly has cautions against recharging. However, there are also claims…
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Is the internet in Madagascar faster than in UK?
According to this article dated July 30 2019, the island nation of Madagascar has faster internet than the United Kingdom.
If you only know Madagascar because of that animated penguins film, you've not been using the Internet properly. But that is…
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Are 700 more planes a day expected to fly because of the Heathrow expansion?
Some people are protesting a proposed expansion of London Heathrow. I saw some protestors of the Heathrow expansion with signs that read "Stop 700 more planes a day".
Greenpeace tells me "A third runway would mean 700 extra planes
a day using…
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Did Hillary Clinton pay Russian officials 30 million dollars, through her campaign to get dirt on Trump?
In tonight's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Ann Coulter said:
I mean, Hillary Clinton paid, through her campaign, 30 million dollars to Russian officials to get dirt on Trump
The full interview including the quote above can be seen on…
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Did the United States Holocaust Museum have a display entitled "Early Warning Signs of Facism"?
I saw this on my Facebook news feed, posted on a page called “Truth in Crisis”. Is this a real display in the United States Holocaust Museum as the post claims? I’m doubtful as a number of them seem more like a comment on current political and…
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