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Do women get cheaper car insurance?
My coworker told me women pay less car insurance than men. So I did some research and found some sites proving that.
For example:
According to How Age And Gender Affect Car Insurance Rates, women tend to pay less for car insurance than men. How can…
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Is listening to lossy audio more tiring than lossless audio?
Multiple posts on Reddit (Ear fatigue and Audio quality, another comment) claim that it is more tiring to listen to music in a lossy format. The same claim is even repeated on the Wikipedia page for Listener Fatigue, but without any references there…
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Did Republicans mock Biden for showing grief over the loss of his dog?
In June, George Takei tweeted:
Republicans are mocking Biden for showing grief over the loss of his dog.
If you lose your dog but feel nothing, you might be a Republican.
As of today, this tweet has 14K retweets and 100K likes. Did Republicans…
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Can an average person be involuntarily hypnotised?
Often hypnotism is accomplished by convincing an audience member to play along, or by selecting out someone who is suggestible. Can an average person be involuntarily hypnotised?
Update: Let us assume that the situation is as follows. A man is…
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Is Trump the "chief law-enforcement officer of the United States"?
This article from Business Insider, and many others, say that
President Donald Trump falsely designated himself the "chief law-enforcement officer of the United States" while speaking with reporters on Tuesday.
Is that the case?
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Does ascending one step burn 0.1 kcal of energy?
The Tsukuba Express Akihabara station has 0.1 kcal markings painted on the steps up from the platform.
Is this accurate? Obviously it's going to depend on the person but broadly speaking do you burn approximately 0.1 kcal per step?
The top step is…
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Did John Bolton hold a notepad with the text "5000 troops to Colombia" written on it when he announced new sanctions against Venezuela?
A lot of news outlets across the entire political spectrum had a major news item about John Bolton today. An example from the CBS News Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1090241906519494657
Colombia's foreign minister says his…
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Are 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities put into political camps?
Reuters:
Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that 2 million Uighurs and
Muslim minorities were forced into “political camps for
indoctrination” in the western Xinjiang…
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Does this photo of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall show a ghost?
Are there any ghosts that are captured on photos?
More specifically, I'm referring to this famous ghost picture of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall:
I've never heard anyone debunking the myth of this photo, but I think this picture is so famous that…
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Did The Lancet publish an account of a woman who did not age?
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science religion, claimed in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, Ch. 8, p. 245:1-15:
The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the
benefits of destroying that illusion, are…
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Did Jodie Foster say all men over 30 are full-blown rapists?
A December 23, 2017 YourNewsWire.com article claims:
Actress Jodie Foster says she believes “every single man over 30” is a
full-blown rapist whether they admit it or not.
Is this true?
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Are 'white women' only 4% of the world population?
I come across the image below, according to which 'white women' would be only 4% of the world population.
Since among 'white women' there are thousands of millions of women living, for example, in Australia, South America, South Africa, Russia and…
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Is drug development far cheaper than Big Pharma wants us to believe?
In an article titled "The Make-Believe Billion - How drug companies exaggerate research costs to justify absurd profits" in Slate the author writes about a new study about the costs of drug development.
The common cost for the development of a new…
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Is the placebo effect getting stronger?
There has recently been a row about the marketing of pain killers. The makers of Nurofen have been accused of selling the same formulation at different prices for different conditions and claiming in advertising that they are "targeted" at…
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Are atheists strongly underrepresented in US prison communities?
This popularly referenced survey gives statistics about the number of atheists in US prisons.
It suggests just 0.21% of the prison population is atheist. There are more scientologists! This is surprising because atheists represent about 15% of the…
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