Top new questions this week:
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This tweet claims Trump "fired the entire pandemic response team in 2018":
Text: Just a reminder: it’s okay to blame the president for how bad things get with COVID-19 because he fired the ...
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President Donald Trump touted a new coronavirus test that produces
results in minutes as opposed to days and announced Monday that more
than 1 million Americans have been tested for the ...
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According to several news reports (SPIEGEL, RBB24, BBC) the Berlin police bought face masks of which 200,000 were confiscated in Bangkok.
BBC, 4 April, 2020:
The US has been accused of ...
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This distressing photo has circulated around the internet including Daily Mail or The Sun as the depiction of people selling human flesh during The Russian famine of 1921–22. However, the source cited ...
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According to Coronavirus (COVID-19) map, as of March 30th there are only 1,263 confirmed cases in India and 1,866 in Japan.
Meanwhile, there are already 142,000 in US, 9,661 in South Korea, and ...
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There is a graph being shared around on the internet that implies that the reason that South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong have better control of Covid-19 is that the people wear masks as a ...
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I'm wondering if there's not a typo in a recent paper that says that
to control the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government imported more than 2.0 billion facemasks between 24 Jan 2020 and 29 ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Just saw this one shared on Facebook by Occupy Democrats with 79k+ likes. It's a repost of this by Less Than 10 Dollars an Hour.
Text reads:
Today's Bit of Irony
Owsley County, Kentucky
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This picture, being shared on Twitter, alleges that Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to the President, during the Obama administration, claimed to be of Iranian descent and of Islamic faith in ...
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In an episode of the BBC show QI - Quite Interesting (Series J, Episode 1) Stephen Fry said:
How much information do you think is in the DNA of one little sperm...?
It's 37.5 MB...
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I heard from several people that drinking milk or dairy products while eating fish can lead towards a special skin pigmentation disorders such as different skin color or bright spots on skin.
I ...
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On some YouTube videos, particularly highly downvoted ones, I often see comments asserting that their dislikes on the video are being deleted, either by YouTube or the channel itself.
From the ...
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A post circulating Facebook and elsewhere reads:
Nelson Mandela will die soon. Today, tomorrow, this week, next week. It won't be long. Remember this, he out-lived Thatcher. When he does die, and ...
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A post circulating on social media - 48,000 shares and counting so far - depicts still images of two news reports, one in California in August 2017 and one in Florida in February 2018 after the ...
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Can you answer these questions?
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There are folks in India who are cancelling their subscriptions to newspapers for fear of catching COVID-19 from them.
A doctor on an NDTV COVID-19 Q&A Show dismissed the risk:
So far, it has ...
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I read that China banned consumption of wild life a few weeks ago.
A strict ban on the consumption and farming of wild animals is being rolled out across China in the wake of the deadly ...
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World Polio Day: Wild poliovirus type 3 declared eradicated:
Salisbury also said no WPV1 has been detected anywhere on the African continent since 2016. Several African nations, however, are still ...
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