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Is it true that India has given Buddha to the world? [closed]
India has given 'Buddha' to the world, not 'Yuddha': PM Modi in Austria
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told the world leaders that India gave the world 'Buddh' and not 'Yuddh'. Highlighting ...
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Has the validity of the "Two Nation Theory" been proven? [closed]
The Two-nation theory
Definition
“Two-Nation Theory” refers to the thesis that Hindus and Muslims in India were two distinct communities that could not coexist within a single state without ...
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Have swimmers drowned because they forgot to deploy the boat’s ladder? [closed]
A friend told me that friends of relatives of a friend of his/her had drowned because everyone had happily jumped from a boat forgetting to deploy the ladder, and could therefore not get on the boat ...
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Did Trump stage his own assassination attempt? [closed]
There have been a lot of theories around the semi-recent Trump assassination attempt, both on the left and the right. One of these theories I have been hearing directly is that Trump staged his own ...
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Does the average income in the US drop by $9,500 if you exclude the ten richest Americans?
A leftist friend of mine shared this meme:
Averages are tricky like that
The average income in the United States is 74,500$.
Excluding the top 10 Americans, it's only 65,000.
Excluding the top 50, ...
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Does the USA plan to establish a military facility on Saint Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal?
An Indian news source, FirstPost has a recent article, 13 things about St Martin's Island that Sheikh Hasina says US wanted her to cede which talks about the claims of Bangladesh’s ex-Prime Minister, ...
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Did Hudhayfa Nazoordeen build a fusion reactor?
A BGR article (and others) claims A student built a fusion reactor at home in just 4 weeks using $2,000 and AI.
A math student has achieved the unthinkable. In just four weeks, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, a ...
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Are all citizens of Saudi Arabia "considered Muslims by the state"?
According to a May 5, 2024 article in Zawia3, a somewhat polemic Egyptian political news source, 2024 source:
accurately determining the religious population composition in Saudi Arabia is ...
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Can tea be probiotic?
I recently came across a pack of probiotic teas from a major brand that claim to support healthy digestion.
We are proud to offer a variety of flavorful teas that combine BC30 Probiotics with quality ...
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Is passenger rail in Japan at least an order of magnitude safer than in the U.S. (as measured by fatalities per passenger-km)?
I've seen several statements online praising the safety of passenger rail in Japan and China compared to the US, implying that rail in the US is at least 10x less safe. For example, ...
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Was the "Skunk Works hangar at Badaber Airbase" (in Pakistan) still "locked and keyed by Americans" as of 2023?
According to a 2023 article in the Eurasian Times
The most notable USAF presence was at the Badaber air base of PAF near Peshawar, operating U-2, the most advanced surveillance aircraft of its era, ...
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Do metal objects attract lightning?
I have come across various sources that claim that you should stay away from metal objects (umbrellas, bikes, etc) during thunderstorms because they "attract lightning". One example would be ...
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Are "many" members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh also members of the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami?
Canadian Immigration quotes:
An article in Power Politics indicates that "many" members of the JMB are also members of Islami Chhatra Chibir, which is the student wing of the Jamaat-e-...
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Did Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, use Bangladeshi students to rise against the Sheikh Hasina regime?
A News18 India article on August 5, 2024, titled ISI Conspiracy to Remove Sheikh Hasina as Pakistan Wants Anti-India Govt in Bangladesh: Top Intel Sources reports:
“ISI is using Jamat and their ...
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Have over 500 Kanaks been "disappeared" by French troops in New Caledonia?
New Caledonia has been wracked by violent pro-independence protests and riots in recent months, in reaction to proposed voting reforms.
Three days ago, the UN issued a report. The report itself has an ...
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Is the Shroud of Turin about 2000 years old, as determined by Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering?
The claim is found in the article Turin Shroud Study Claims Controversial Cloth Does Date to Time of Jesus:
A team of Italian researchers have entered the debate over the Shroud of Turin, the linen ...
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Were auroras a rare occurrence before the 18th Century?
Wikipedia's page on auroras says:
A mid 19th-century British source says auroras were a rare occurrence before the 18th century. It quotes Halley as saying that before the aurora of 1716, no such ...
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Did the French janitor at the University of Hanoi receive a higher base pay than a Vietnamese professor?
Bernard Fall (1967):
the French janitor at the University of Hanoi received a base pay that was slightly higher than that of a Vietnamese professor with a Ph.D. from the University of Paris.
No ...
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Does saying "Yes" on spam calls actually lead to this "Yes" being used elsewhere? [duplicate]
There's lots of reports like Don't say yes when caller asks 'Can you hear me now?', but even this article says:
"...that 'Yes' answer you gave could later be edited to make it sound like you ...
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Did Artem and Anna Dultsev's children really have no idea that their parents were connected to Russia? [closed]
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has claimed that the children of Artem and Anna Dultsev (two of the Russian spies who were part of the August 1, 2024 prisoner exchange) did not know they were ...
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Are these French government departments registered as US companies?
A few months ago, a video in went viral in France, with two "sovereign citizens" refused to submit during a regular police road control. They claimed that French policemen are mercenaries on ...
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Was a Wagner flag flying over the fort in Kidal, Mali?
Radio France Internationale (RFI) claims that this a flag of the Wagner Group flying over a colonial fortress in Kidal, Mali. back in Nov. 2023, when it was captured from Azawad rebels in the Battle ...
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Did Oppenheimer comment about the split between Dr. Tsung Dao Lee and Dr. Chen Ning Yang?
Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize passed away on August 4
The story of his breakup with his co-recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize, Yang Chen Ning ...
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Are 57% of STEM graduates in Arab countries women?
In an interview in Nature, molecular biologist Rana Dajani states:
Although up to 57% of all science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) graduates in Arab countries are women, women are still ...
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Has Tim Walz ever supported a semi-automatic rifle ban?
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus says this on their website:
Governor Walz has also called on a complete BAN on magazines holding more than 10 rounds and has previously supported bans on semi-...
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Are there Muslim riots ongoing in Britain that the British media is downplaying?
Recently, there have been multiple posts on the meme site 9gag about incidents that are supposedly Muslim immigrants rioting on the streets of Britain with weapons and chanting pro-Muslim slogans. The ...
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If adjusted for IQ, do all races earn the same in the US?
In book The Global Bell Curve by Richard Lynn, there is the following table:
Herrnstein and Murray addressed the problem of how far
the lower socioeconomic status and earnings of blacks and Hispanics
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Do police interrogations in Italy and Spain "start out physically" and can police "do pretty much what they want"?
In the context of police interviewing suspects:
Thank God we're in the United States because most interviews in Italy, Spain, and so forth, start out physically. Okay. There's no police... uh... ...
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Have HDMI electromagnetic radiation privacy attacks already been used against government agencies and sensitive industrial settings?
I read on AI can see what's on your screen by reading HDMI electromagnetic radiation regarding sneaking on someone's screen by reading HDMI electromagnetic radiation:
The researchers say these ...
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Is it illegal in Australia to add "chocolate or sultanas" to an Anzac biscuit?
QI - Quite Interesting is a Facebook page ostensibly connected to the popular British TV show. The page has approximately 524 thousand followers.
They posted an image on 26 July 2024. After three days,...
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Does increasing one's probiotic uptake lower the chance of getting sick after swimming in waters of questionable quality?
I read on Olympic triathletes hope the Seine River is clean enough for swimming after recent rains regarding swimming in waters of questionable quality:
“We've all been upping our probiotic uptake, ...
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Is US Citizen, Omali Yeshitela, facing jail for producing pro-Russian propaganda?
The video INTERVIEW: Omali Yeshitela, Facing 15-Years for “Pro-Russian Propaganda” by Glenn Greenwald claims that Omali Yeshitela, an American citizen, is facing a 12 year jail sentence for “Pro-...
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Did Donald Trump tell Americans to inject bleach to prevent or cure COVID-19? [duplicate]
In a March 20 speech, Joe Biden claimed:
He [Trump] told Americans — remember he was telling "inject bleach"?
He repeated this claim (sometimes claiming drinking, mostly claiming injecting)...
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Does/will Disney World charge men 20% more for tickets? [closed]
I saw a news post that Disney World is going to charge men 20% more than women to "fight the wage gap".
I can only find it on Mouse Trap News, which looks like a parody site, but there's ...
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Have human infant foreskins been put into commercial cosmetic products?
It's been a thing I've heard for a long time now, but I simply thought it was some sort of slander campaign. I recently read an article in Boston magazine which said
"the active ingredient in an ...
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Did Joe Biden refer to himself as a black woman?
The Telegraph claims that Joe Biden has made the statement on Philadelphia radio station
“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice-president, first black woman… to serve with a black ...
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Did the German justice system convict a woman for insulting a person who gang raped a minor?
New York Post writes
A German woman was handed down a harsher sentence than a convicted rapist after she called him a “disgraceful rapist pig.”
Maja R, 20, was jailed for a weekend after she was ...
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Did the BBC censor a non-binary character in Transformers: EarthSpark?
Bleeding Cool, a news site focused on comics and other pop culture, reported that the BBC censored a scene in Transformers: EarthSpark in which the character Nightshade discusses how they are non-...
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Are children born out of wedlock more likely to become "predators"?
According to Joe Biden (at about 1:11:00 in the Cspan video; see also the transcript; 18 November 1993, emphasis added):
We must take back the streets. It doesn't matter whether or not the person ...
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Was AI used in the June 2024 NHS data breach?
There is a BBC segment called "AI Decoded" in which they have convened a panel of cyber security experts. The episode is titled "Hackers expose deep cybersecurity vulnerabilities in AI&...
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Are there merely 800 American students in China?
Those disagreements have overshadowed everything. But when President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met last November, they agreed to encourage more student exchanges as a way to stabilize ...
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Have children's car seats not been proven to be more effective than seat belts alone for kids older than 24 months?
A comment on a question on the Travel Stack Exchange claims that "child seats [in cars] have never been proven to be more effective than seat belts for kids older than 24 months", and links ...
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Did James Madison say or write that the 10 Commandments are critical to the US nation?
Louisiana (the US state) recently passed a law requiring the biblical Ten Commandments be posted in every single classroom that is part of a school that receives public funding, including universities....
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Are 1/20 undocumented immigrants married to American citizens?
The Washington Post reported,
An estimated 500,000 immigrants, most from Mexico, married to U.S. citizens will be eligible to apply for permanent residency through their spouses. Federal law requires ...
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Did Palestinians on social media decipher the "signals and gestures" that police used against protestors in Ferguson?
The Reverend Traci D. Blackmon stated the following in a recent interview for National Public Radio:
when the young people went to the street in Ferguson and encountered military tanks and snipers ...
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Does pulse width modulation (PWM) sensitivity exist in the 362-500Hz frequency range?
Pulse width modulation is a technique used to dim LEDs in LED screens - effectively by turning them on and off at full strength at a high frequency.
Some people claim that they are sensitive to the ...
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Is there racial bias in police shootings in America?
On Triggernometry show Roland G. Fryer Jr. makes the claim
I thought I was going to be able to show that the police were biased very easily, and then we gathered literally millions
and millions of ...
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Did Hitler say "I cannot live if one Jew is left"?
Recently, Moshe Feiglin, former deputy speaker of Israel's Knesset, said something on Israeli TV that went viral on X (Formerly Twitter): (see this and this)
"As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if ...
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Were Meir Vilner and Rostam Bastuni the first to claim Israel had an apartheid policy?
The hebrew wikipedia has this text:
The claim of apartheid policy by Israel was apparently first heard in 1954, when Knesset members Meir Vilner (Maki) and Rostam Bastuni (Mapam) submitted a proposal ...
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Did 'regulated' in the US's Second Amendment refer to function or restriction?
Colion Noir, a gun rights activist, while commenting on an interview of Jon Stewart about the US constitution's Second Amendment, made a claim:
John thinks that well-regulated means controlled or ...
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