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Did Jodie Foster say all men over 30 are full-blown rapists?
No, this is a beat-up.
YourNewsWire, to their credit, provide direct links to their sources:
A USA Today interview:
Pretty much every man over 30 has to really look and start thinking about their ...
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Did Elvis consume 100,000 calories a day at the end of his life?
That article is silly.
For better information see A look at Elvis Presley's insane food habits on the anniversary of his death, which includes a video interview with Elvis's personal cook Mary ...
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Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg alive as of February 2019?
In this article by the well-respected Associated Press, we read of a concert that Justice Ginsburg attended Monday night (Feb 4, 2019), her first public appearance since surgery in New York on ...
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Is Ellen DeGeneres legally married because of Obama?
Some of Obama's actions as President were instrumental in ensuring that DeGeneres and her wife are considered to be married under US federal law and the laws of all 50 US states. This is a reasonable ...
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Was Mr. Beast invited to ride the Titan submarine?
He clarified that the screenshot of the invitation was sent to him by the person who offered it.
https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1673102128150200321?s=20
While the Twitter replies call this dubious,...
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How old was Joan Lee upon passing away?
She was 95.
Wikipedia provides a link to a record of her birth in the early months of 1922. This would make her 95 as Wikipedia says.
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Was child porn found in the possession of Michael Jackson?
Firstly, the photos of child porn covers released on the internet are confirmed to be fake, by a police spokesperson.
In a statement, police spokesperson Kelly Hoover told USA TODAY, "Some
of the ...
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Did Michael Jordan sell a used shirt for $1250?
There are multiple incorrect facts in the story included in the Quora post.
Michael Jordan was an African-American man, born in 1963, in the slums of Brooklyn, New York.
He had four brothers and his ...
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Did Angelina Jolie admit participating in a ritual involving sexual torture and animal sacrifice?
Even if you ignore the misleading annotations, the video doesn't contain what you say it does. Jolie eg doesn't mention a 'ritual'. She does talk about sexuality & tattoos, but her interest in ...
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Did John Lennon say this skeptical thing about foreign aid to poor countries?
The quote is from a September 1980 interview with David Sheff, as published in the January 1981 Playboy magazine issue.
...
SHEFF: "Just to finish your favorite subject, what about the ...
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Did a large number of celebrities threaten to go on strike until Trump resigns?
The article you linked says that its source is an article on Spinzon which says that its source is an article on TheRightists.com from January 6th. In fact, they have mostly the same text.
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Is 2016 cursed for celebrities?
No, there is no evidence of a supernatural curse affecting celebrities. In fact, there isn't even any evidence that 2016, to date, is a particularly bad year for celebrity deaths.
The article Prince ...
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Did Howard Hughes store his urine in Mason jars?
There is an overwhelming consensus of 'Yes he did.'
According to Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham (1993):
Page 121 describes the great lengths he had people go to accomodate
him.
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Did Enzo Maiorca rescue a pregnant dolphin and did he get a "kiss" from the mate
This seems embellished somewhat, there is an account of it on the Sea Shepherd site: "Years ago, while we were diving, a male dolphin guided my daughters Rossana and Patrizia, and myself, almost ...
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Does Cristiano Ronaldo drink or smoke?
The drinking and tattoo claims seem to be true.
Does Ronaldo not have any tattoos so that he can donate blood more freely?
This seems to be correct. Various places report it online, for example ...
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How old was Joan Lee upon passing away?
It appears that Joan Lee was 95 at her passing.
The first link that you provide is to The Hollywood Reporter. In the report, they include this correction on the bottom.
July 7, 4:40 a.m. An ...
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Did Amber Heard physically abuse Johnny depp? and admit to it?
Depp is alleging abuse by Heard in an ongoing lawsuit filed back in March, and Heard denies this allegation. The alleged admission by Heard is on a 2015 audio recording obtained exclusively by the ...
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Is Adiel Tel-Oren an MD?
Under US law, he is not a medical doctor. He is not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S. Under the headline
"Minneapolis skin clinic operator is practicing medicine without license, state ...
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Did Rasputin have an affair with Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna?
We will probably never know. No evidence.
Historians will normally stress that what's important is not whether claims about (im-)morality of rulers are factually true, but whether people actually ...
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Is Tupac Shakur alive?
According to the Los Angeles Times, September 14 1996:
[Tupac Shakur] was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m. at University Medical
Center of respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest, a hospital
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Was child porn found in the possession of Michael Jackson?
Original radaronline.com accusations
The original source of this story is radaronline.com. They also provide access to the mentioned police report from 2003[*].
Jackson was charged in 2003 with ...
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Was singer Taio Cruz's birth name Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere?
Proof from independent sources
The Library of Congress confirms that this is the legal of Taio Cruz:
Onile-Ere, Adetayo Ayowale, 1983-
Furthermore, the catalogue of the german national library ...
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Did NFL player Brian Bosworth sell anti-Boz t-shirts to Denver Broncos fans?
Anti-Boz t-shirts
Yes, I can verify at least one design of anti-Boz t-shirt was sold in Denver. The one that can be found on eBay or Etsy is white and has on the front, "BOZ" in large red ...
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Has Francesca Marie Smith written any episodes of Hey Arnold?
The ten episodes listed in the Internet Movie Database under "Writer" are
Dinner for Four/Phoebe Skips (1999) ... (story - segment "Phoebe Skips")
Phoebe Takes the Fall/The Pig ...
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Is 2016 cursed for celebrities?
(Downvoters please note that the question is about people considered celebrities in the UK. If what you're interested in is people considered celebrities in the USA, please skip to Oddthinking's ...
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