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Do McDonald's burgers have an unnaturally long lifespan?
The National Post article Zombie cheeseburger? McDonald’s patty, bun, cheese unchanged after one year sitting on kitchen counter features a cheeseburger that hasn't changed one year after being left on a table.
Professional nutritionist Melanie…
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Is nuclear power economically untenable?
One of the arguments I've seen levied against nuclear power is that it's not economically viable.
In the 1970s nuclear power cost half as much as electricity from coal burning: by 1990 nuclear power cost twice as much as electricity from coal…
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Which baby diaper is more Earth-friendly -- cloth or disposable?
We have a lot of friends who use cloth diapers, and I've heard some say that cloth diapers are actually more un-ecologically friendly than disposable diapers. I have a hard time buying that. I can find some sources going both ways online:
From the…
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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?
The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2022 (archive.is link):
Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender
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Lady Nicholson said that the case had arisen as a direct result of the NHS policy – known as Annex B -…
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Did Andrew Tate claim his job was to seduce women and get them on a webcam?
Andrew Tate is a social media personality who was recently charged with rape and human trafficking offences.
There are screenshots available of Andrew Tate's website cobratate.com, on which it says:
My job was to meet a girl, go on a few dates,…
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Did Napoléon Bonaparte ask his wife Josephine not to bathe for several days in a letter before his arrival?
According to British historian Andrew Roberts, Napoléon Bonaparte wrote a letter to his wife Joséphine, in which he wrote "to her, ‘don’t wash for three days’" to spice up their reunion. This seems to be a common story also found in many other…
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Did the Ontario College of Psychologists demand that Jordan P Peterson attend 'communication retraining'?
Jordan B Peterson tweets and is further quoted in The Post Millennial
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists
@CPOntario
has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other…
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Did Greg Abbott send a busload of migrants to Kamala Harris' house on Christmas Eve?
I can't square this one. Greg Abbott is a Republican governor who espouses conservative Christian values, so when I read that he deliberately redirected a busload of migrant families to a political opponent's house, on Christmas Eve of all days, it…
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Is the Daddy Long Legs spider the world's most venomous?
The claim is the Daddy Long Legs (Pholcus phalangioides) spider is the most venomous spider in the world, but that its fangs are too small to be able to penetrate human skin.
The wikipedia article calls it an urban myth and links through to some…
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Was Ukraine planning an attack in Donbas/Crimea prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Quote by Putin in today's Victory Day speech:
“In December last year, we proposed the conclusion of an agreement on security guarantees. Russia called on the West to enter an honest dialogue, in search of reasonable compromise solutions, to take…
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Did Henry Kissinger say this about forced vaccinations?
I found a quote online in the form of a photo from what looks like some newspaper:
The photo contains an alleged quote from Henry Kissinger's speech to the WHO Council on Eugenics on February 25, 2009, and it reads:
Once the herd accepts mandatory…
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Is this "ancient Hebrew leather manuscript" seized by police in Turkey authentic?
Some time ago there was news of a manuscript stolen from a Syrian museum, seized from smugglers in Turkey. There are many other articles about this as well.
Turkish police seize ancient manuscript from smugglers —Suspects in central Kırşehir…
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Are Hamas' Qassam rockets not very destructive?
Recently there was this answer on Politics.SE, which quotes extensively from Norman Finkelstein's book, Gaza: An Inquest Into its Martyrdom. In particular, there was deep disagreement from this quote from Page 265
What’s yet more telling, it…
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Was this quote on a clay tablet about unruly kids written by an Assyrian?
I've been sent an email saying that every generation thought that kids were too stupid or unruly, with this text as evidence:
"Our Earth is degenerate in these later
days; there are signs that the world
is speedily coming to an end; bribery
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Did older car odometers rewind when driving backwards?
I've always heard that way-back-when, the simplest way to rewind a car's odometer was to drive backwards (at least in some models). Is this true? Did those manufacturers miss such an obvious gaming method?
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