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Is Kamala Harris' approval rating the lowest of any vice president?
Is Kamala Harris' approval rating "the lowest of any vice president"? I was watching this Fox News video and I am not sure if it's accurate or not.
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28% approval rating as of Nov 8, 2021
Harris hit an historic low approval rating of 28%,…
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Did a 'Black History Month website' call white people ‘genetically defective descendants of albino mutants’?
Telegraph.co.uk reports that 'A Black History Month website' has made claims such as :
[white people are the] genetically defective descendants of albino mutants
[white man can] “fantasise that he is genetically equal to the black…
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Did the French government print posters explaining COVID-19 vaccination passport policy already in January 2020?
We see this poster, for example from the official site of the city of Toulon:
(Explaining that citizens now either need to show a certificate for having 1. covid-vaccination 2. covid-test negative younger than 48 hours or 3. covid convalescent for…
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Did 528 Hz sound broadcasts help clean polluted water in the Gulf of Mexico?
Attuned Vibrations is a vendor with articles making numerous claims about the benefits of certain audio frequencies.
On the 528 Hz – The Love Frequency page, they claim that 528 Hz sound helped clean oil from the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2010, John…
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Did GitHub collaborate with Chinese authorities to remove the “#2020 nCov memory” page on GitHub?
The #2020 nCov memory page [former URL] was a GitHub page. Qz explains:
The project, which was started by seven volunteers based around the world, chronicles and collects personal narratives and Chinese news reports on the disease. “The purpose of…
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Does planting during different lunar phases affect growth?
I have recently had some potatoes that were said to benefit from being planted at an advantageous time because of the lunar cycle.
I had never heard of such a thing, but apparently "it is quite common on the continent"(European mainland).
My…
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Does one remain conscious after decapitation?
Various articles online claim anecdotal evidence from witnesses that a man's guillotine severed head remains conscious for some time after decapitation (here's an example). Some cite sources that the author no longer remembers clearly, or provide…
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Were the emission savings of Greta Thunberg's trip by boat outweighed by crew flights?
Greta Thunberg sailed from England to New York in a yacht.
Wikipedia explains:
The trip was announced as a carbon-neutral transatlantic crossing serving as a demonstration of Thunberg's declared beliefs of the importance of reducing…
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Were mixed race kids theorized to look like zebras?
I came across this QI tweet: Meet the quagga, an extinct subspecies of zebra with only half the stripes!#QI. There's a video clip and at around ~0:31 seconds the following is said:
I went to school in Kenya and we read early colonial books and they…
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Does Australia produce unique 'specialty steel'?
Wikipedia quotes Bob Woodward's Fear : Trump in the White House, writing:
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull successfully lobbied President Trump to get an exemption at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit, arguing "[w]e do this steel that's…
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Was the Highlands Ranch shooting the 115th mass shooting in the US in 2019
I was reading an article from the BBC about the Highlands Ranch School shooting and they made the following claim
This is believed to be the 115th mass shooting in the US in 2019.
This was on the 8th May 2019.
Is the Highlands Ranch School…
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Is CEO the "profession" with the most psychopaths?
An opinion article in Time has this subheading:
CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths.
This may have been added by a headline editor though, because the article body doesn't flesh out the fact that well, besides this (ordered?)…
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Has fluoride been classified as a neurotoxin?
My Facebook feed includes a report that fluoride has recently been officially classified as a neurotoxin.
Awareness Act, 5 April 2018
A big step has been made here recently. In the most prestigious medical journal. One known as The Lancet.…
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Is this "fall of industrial production" graph accurate?
A candidate to the French presidency tweeted
The fall in industrial production in Spain, Italy and France of course has a link with the euro.
However I have a couple of doubts on its accuracy because of its source and the arbitrary use of gauges…
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Did Benjamin Franklin warn the young American Nation against the Jews?
In reading some recent history, I came across an open letter from Osama bin Laden to the American public. In it, he claims the typical "Jews own your banks and media" stuff. But he also claims that Benjamin Franklin warned us about that possible…
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