Use this tag for claims about the law. This must be almost always be accompanied by a country tag, such as [united-states] to clarify which country's laws the claim is about.
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Is the key legal, historical reason that marriage exists in the United States to regulate procreation?
During a recent radio show, at approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the broadcast, Charles Cooper is quoted as saying the following in federal appeals court arguments:
The key reason that marriage has existed at all in any society and at
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Is it illegal to air a prank call in the United States because of FCC regulation?
There is a show in Houston radio show on KRBE called Roula & Ryan's Roses -- you can subscribe here. It's rather amusing and trashy. I've heard it a few times before. "Retired Engineer" on Kingwood.com, a local forum, made the claim that on-air…
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Are law and medicine high-paying professions?
It seems to be taken as self-evident that law and medicine are one of the highest paying professions in the United States. However it seems to me that much of the high income from these professions can be simply attributed to the extraordinarily…
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Does an “average-sized” power station pay over a quarter billion pounds per day when unable to generate electricity?
Given the war in Ukraine and associated sanctions on Russia and reciprocal withholding of supply, Europe is facing a gas shortage.
The UK imports very little Russian gas, but because of the reduced supply is still facing potential shortages over the…
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Are all Oreo-cookie ingredients listed in accordance with EU ingredient labelling regulations?
I have read in several places about the claim that Oreo cookies may be using titanium dioxide in their preparation. This additive, although widely used, has been recently under the suspicion of provoking cancer (still low level of risk and not…
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Slurping soup in New Jersey
I read once in a book of weird facts heard that slurping soup is technically illegal in New Jersey, and, looking it up, have found a ton of lists of "wacky laws" saying that this is true. Nothing I have found so far actually mentions the specific…
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Are Australia's 5G radiation safety standards at least one hundred times laxer than of 6 other listed countries?
I saw this poster on the Facebook wall of a friend. The earliest I traced it was to Electrosensitivity Australia's Facebook wall where it was shared over 1700 times.
RADIATION LEVEL SAFETY STANDARDS
Luxembourg 20mW/m²
Switzerland 40mW/m²
China…
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Are flight attendants exempt from COVID-19 quarantine restrictions when leaving New York or entering Canada?
Are the posts below true?
fathrowaway7. 2020 Mar 27 23:54 GMT.
I’m a flight attendant.
We are still flying because we are considered “essential.” You heard about those orders to quarantine for 14 days after traveling from New York? We’re exempt.…
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Did Jhering coin the bon mot "In Germany everything that is not allowed is forbidden"?
On a website collecting aphorisms, we find:
In Deutschland ist alles verboten, was nicht erlaubt ist;
in England ist alles erlaubt, was nicht verboten ist;
in Rußland ist alles erlaubt, was verboten ist.
Rudolf von Jhering ––
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Is it true that in New York City there is a special law stating "It is Illegal to break the law"?
According to the book Pocket Pal Freaky Facts, as published by Hinkler Books Pty Ltd (June 1, 2009), in the section under freaky laws, there is a law in New York City making it illegal to break the law.
Does NYC really have such a dumb (or,…
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Do US laws define Ashkenazi Jews as "white"?
The US Census, apparently, officially defines Ashkenazi Jews as white:
White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
However, this definition is apparently disputed by mainstream news…
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Is Sesame Street at risk of losing funding with Trump's new budget proposal?
Trump's latest budget proposal includes cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. There have been claims that this would endanger funding to Sesame Street. However, Sesame Street moved off of PBS and onto HBO over a year ago, so is Sesame…
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Have any Freeman of the land applications been successful in court?
I've been reading about various groups purporting to be Freeman-on-the-land, which believe that contractual ties between the government and these people are only valid if the people consent to them. However, despite digging quite deep, I have not…
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Is the FCC planning to restrict installation of custom software on radio-enabled devices?
Recently I came across this Reddit post regarding the fact that the FCC is planning to prevent consumers from installing custom firmware and OSes on radio/WiFi enabled devices.
Is this really what this proposal is trying to do, or is this just a…
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Do 99.99% of federal grand juries indict?
The headline of this Washington Post article advertises:
The single chart that shows that federal grand juries indict 99.99 percent of the time
The chart itself compares the number of cases that were rejected by a federal grand jury (apparently…
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