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Did Former Chief Justice of India commuted death sentence of a person who raped and killed 4 year old girl?
This is posted used by Hindu group in small protest in New York to protest against Indian judiciary.
So, I want to Know did Uday Umesh Lalit (former CJI) commuted death sentence of pedophile who raped ...
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Was 2023 the first time a person in California was killed in a black bear attack?
One recent article that grabbed my attention was from the San Francisco Chronicle, about a woman killed by a black bear:
A California woman was stalked by a black bear she named ‘Big Bastard.’ Then it ...
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Did an Indian Supreme Court judge release a terrorist with 70 criminal cases?
Stop Hindu Genocide (content warning: violent pictures and videos) is a web-site protesting violence against Hindus. A group in New York protested against former Chief Justices of India. They had ...
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Is 1971 minimum wage "in silver quarters" far, far higher than the current minimum wage?
There is a widely circulated claim that 1971 minimum U.S. wage -- when paid in silver quarters -- would significantly exceed the current nominally higher minimum wage.
In 1971, the Federal minimum ...
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Did foreigners pay the Republika Srpska in order to shoot civilians during the siege of Sarajevo?
The documentary Sarajevo Safari alleges that during the siege of Sarajevo the army of the Republika Srpska had an organised program in which wealthy foreigners would pay large amounts of money for the ...
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Was there a punishment in Mauryan Empire where one would be forbidden from speaking rest of life?
The Geographica is an ancient Greek Encyclopedia, thought to have been written around 2,000 years ago by Strabo.
An English language translation, The Geography of Strabo, was written by Horace Leonard ...
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Did Bengal Presidency in British India around 1810-1820 have 100000 schools according to British documents?
In this video (Hindi Language), Sudhanshu Trivedi claims that in Bengal Presidency in 1810-1820, according to a British report, there were 1 lakh (100,000) villages and 1 lakh schools. (at 0:38)
He ...
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Does the SPLC's citation of a quote from Dan Stein in his 1997 interview with Tucker Carlson accurately reflect his full remarks from said interview?
I recently found a claim from the Southern Poverty Law Center that alleges the Federation for American Immigration Reform is a hate group. One of the pieces of evidence they provide to substantiate ...
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Had India ever deported Rohingya people, as of December 2017?
In December, 2017, Kiren Rijuju, the then Union Minister of State for Home Affairs of India, was asked a question in parliament about the status of the Rohingyan people living in India.
He responded:
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Have 91% of Afghan children suffered physical abuse, including being burnt and given drugs?
In this 2017 TOLOnews article, Study Finds 91% Of Afghan Children Abused In Some Way it says that a Save The Children Afghanistan study reported:
91 percent of respondents said they face some sort of ...
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Did ISIS congratulate Zohran Mamdani on his win?
Zohran Mamdani won the mayorship of NYC. Following that win, I've seen two conflicting pieces of news: One that ISIS congratulated Mamdani, and one that ISIS is telling Muslims to not celebrate ...
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Does this video authentically depict a hurricane as seen from the sky?
Does this video authentically depict a hurricane, as seen from the sky?
I wonder if perhaps this is an AI-generated video . Wouldn’t it be risky to fly close to a hurricane? Why would it form a circle ...
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Is this a photo of a missile test?
https://x.com/Conflict_Radar/status/1983054632021832050
The above X account says that:
Pakistan reportedly conducted an missile test early today, near Harnai, Balochistan.
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Were more than 1100 industrial firms wiped out under the directions of Veselin Vukotić?
This documentary by Boris Malagurski claims that than 1100 industrial firms were wiped out from January 1989 to September 1990 under the lead of the US-supported Yugoslavian minister of privatisation ...
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Does nitrogen asphyxiation (when used as a capital punishment method) cause convulsions?
I was reading this Guardian article about the recent execution of Anthony Boyd by nitrogen asphyxiation, and it explains that the first person subjected to the method, Kenny Smith, was seen "...
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why did you close my questions without reason? [migrated]
i dont see what is wrong with what im asking really i dont see evidence of your claims for example the claim that atoms exist or that everything is made of atoms it seems we are misunderstanding each ...
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Could iron preserve dinosaur tissue for millions of years?
In 2005, a Tyrannosaurus specimen was discovered with soft tissues preserved inside its leg bone, which has been followed by the discovery of similar tissues in other dinosaur specimens since then. ...
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Did the IDF use armored personnel carriers as remote-controlled bombs during the Gaza War?
In a video for Al Jazeera (at 6:16), Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda explained that the IDF was able to cause massive destruction by stuffing armored personnel carriers (APCs) with bombs and using ...
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Is there any evidence that constraining the prices of pharmaceuticals significantly would reduce R&D spending on new drugs?
Why is this a new issue?
Historically, the prices of new drugs were largely unconstrained in their biggest market, the USA. The USA probably accounts for more than half of the worldwide profits in the ...
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Was the concept of ecological or carbon footprint invented by fossil fuel PR to shift the blame for climate change?
Several sources claim that the concept of an ecological footprint or carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel lobbyists to shift the responsibility for climate change from big oil to private ...
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Did Russian authorities booby trap or poison bodies of returned Ukrainian fallen soldiers?
A Reddit post on the Ukraine sub reddit which cites a Ukrainian news article claims:
Repatriated soldiers’ bodies arrive to Ukraine with hidden grenades in their pockets
All the comments on the post ...
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Are octopuses intelligent?
The Smithsonian website (Why the Octopus Brain is so Extraordinary) says:
some scientists argue it could be the first intelligent being on the planet. They can complete puzzles, untie knots, open ...
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Were the supply ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla empty?
The Global Sumud Flotilla was a convoy of ships ostensibly sent to provide aid to Gaza/protest the Israeli blockade. It was intercepted by Israeli military last Thursday 2 October (Source), causing ...
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Did James J Kilroy write "Kilroy was here" on ships under construction?
James J. Kilroy is considered (on Wikipedia) as one of the best candidates for the origin of the phrase "Kilroy was Here".
The relevant portion is here:
One theory identifies James J. ...
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Does traditional Ayurveda believes ghost cause sleep paralysis?
In this religious article, it is claimed that ayurveda believes that Ghosts cause sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis is a well-known phenomena. Yoga and ayurveda explain
it as an attack of an aggressive ...
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Have 28% of US adults had "at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI"?
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim:
28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI.
Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A ...
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Does marrying young lead to a higher probability of divorce?
As this article by the London School of Economics states, there is a "popular belief that marrying young leads to divorce." In support of this claim, the same article notes that:
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Did Socrates have a homosexual relationship with an Athenian statesman?
There are many conflicting accounts as to whether the Athenian statesman Alcibiades was a lover of Socrates. The Wikipedia page on Alcibiades' depiction in culture states:
"Alcibiades also ...
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Will the world have 10 billion people, half of which are Muslim by 2045?
In this video with US Ambassador Tom Barrack, he states
If you just look at the demographics, you're going to have by 2040/2045 10 billion people in the world; 5 billion Muslims.
Is this projection ...
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Is there a snake-like entity depicted on the Altamira caves?
I've seen some articles (CogniArchae.com, Facebook, X.com) featuring what appears to be a serpent-like entity allegedly depicted on a wall in the Altamira caves, as below:
Yet I haven't found any ...
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Are there injections that combine 80 different vaccines?
President Trump is quoted in the UK newspaper The Independent as saying:
I mean, for a little baby to be injected with that much fluid, even beyond the actual ingredients, they have sometimes 80 ...
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Did the Zionist paramilitary organization, Lehi, try to assassinate the US president Harry Truman with letter bombs?
A social media post I encountered stated that Lehi was supposedly the sender of letter bombs to the then-president Harry Truman and other high-ranking officers at the White House during Jewish ...
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Did Lord Byron have an incestuous relationship with his sister?
It is often remarked that Lord Byron (often regarded as one of "the greatest British poets") had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh (eg here). However, other ...
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Should an exit wound have been expected on Charlie Kirk?
According to Raw Story, Andrew Kolvet tweeted
I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie.[...]
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I mentioned to his doctor that there were dozens of ...
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Do modern parking brakes fail to stop cars rolling down hills?
The California Driver Handbook advises:
When you park on a hill, your vehicle could roll due to equipment failure. Remember to set the parking brake and leave the vehicle in park, or in gear for ...
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Are Africans and other ethnic groups more genetically different than dogs and coyotes?
While scrolling through twitter, I came across this image being shared around by certain right wing accounts, as well as forums and websites relating to eugenics. It makes the claim that populations ...
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Did Pablo Escobar lose 10% of his money to literal rats?
Many sources claim Pablo Escobar lost 10% of his money yearly to rats, at one time totalling $2.1 billion a year.
At His Peak Pablo Escobar Was Losing $2.1 Billion A Year Due To Rats Eating Money In ...
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Is this Nautilus Magazine article on Peter Putnam based on a real person?
I just came across an article on Peter Putnam, allegedly a 20th century physicist who invented something like reinforcement learning (though the details are unclear) and was forgotten until a recent ...
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Did Trump say "smart people don't like me"?
A clip on Instagram going run has Trump saying "smart people don't like me." It has 50,000 likes.
It was also picked up by Hindustan Times., which was unable to verify it.
Did Trump state ...
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As at September 2025, is AI *not* writing 90% of code?
I'd like to fact-check this claim:
While it’s hard to quantify who or what is writing the bulk of code these days, the consensus is that there's essentially zero chance that 90 percent of it is being ...
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Did Mark Twain say "history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme"?
The quote "history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme" is attributed to Mark Twain, but I've never seen it attributed to one of his published works. Did he ever use it in an article, ...
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Does the honey swirl test for adulterated honey show the honey remembers the honeycomb?
The honey swirl test1, 2, 3 claims real honey remembers the shape of the honeycomb. You can bring this out by swirling water over the honey. After 30 seconds you'll see a honeycomb pattern. Is this ...
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Did ancient Locrian code punish new law proposers with death if the people did not vote to enact it?
Wikipedia's article on Zaleucus as well as the one on Locri cite a rule about proposing a new law:
Anyone who proposed a new law, or the alteration of one already existing, had to appear before the ...
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Did Hume play a major role in the development of the theory of evolution?
According to the SEP page on David Hume (see my emphasis in bold):
"Kant reported that Hume’s work woke him from his “dogmatic slumbers” (Prolegomena, Introduction) and Jeremy Bentham remarked ...
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Were the BLS statistics under Biden wildly inaccurate?
According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Twitter
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pushed back last week when I warned that the BLS jobs data would show a massive downward revision.
Now it’s official: 2024 job ...
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Were 129 billion disposable face masks used per month during the height of the coronavirus pandemic?
I'm not sure if slashdot still counts as notable, but that post links to the original article in The Guardian claiming that:
It has been estimated that during the height of the coronavirus pandemic ...
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Are people on the left wing of politics less likely to donate to charity?
A 2008 opinion piece in the Daily Mail, written by conservative political commentator, Peter Schweizer claims:
Studies also indicate that those on the Left are less likely to give to charity or to ...
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Do "Beats headphones contain metal 'weights' to make them appear better quality"?
I was surprised by a Redditor comment (nearly 5k score) today: They made beats headphones with weights so they were heavier to make people think they were higher quality. And when I googled it I ...
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Was Trump an FBI informant investigating Epstein?
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has said that Trump was an undercover FBI informant investigating Epstein (Yahoo News):
Mr Johnson added: “When he first heard the rumour, he kicked him out of Mar-...
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Did Booker T. Washington say this quote about truth and good not being defined by a majority?
I casually came across the following quote attributed to Booker T. Washington:
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a ...
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