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Did Donald Trump make campaign contributions to Attorneys General who then decided not to prosecute him?
According to this Medium article and this Vox article Donald Trump made campaign contributions to two attorneys general who then suddenly decided to stop investigating his "Trump University" for fraud.
Is this true?
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Is the curtain behind Obama in this picture a "muslim prayer curtain"?
I've been shown this image a few times:
Naturally, it's a little ridiculous, because there are surely at least a thousand pictures of him near an American flag.
But it is making a claim that the yellowish curtain behind Obama is some kind of Muslim…
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How were the pyramids built?
It is claimed in many different pseudoscience publications and sites that it was impossible for the ancient Egyptian civilization to build the pyramids, because:
too much labour was needed
it was impossible to cut stone with such precision
they…
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Are these 'French children held at gun point'?
I've come across this post on facebook several times now. The video shows a group of young people kneeling on the ground with police around them. The text attached is as follows:
School children in France held at gun-point for peacefully protesting…
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Were illegally immigrating children held in cages during the Obama administration?
Were children separated from their parents when they were caught on the Mexican border by US officials as illegal immigrants before Trump's introduction of zero tolerance immigration policy?
I wasn't able to find other source of that information…
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Did NOAA publish a fake map with temperature data it doesn't have?
At the Deplorable Climate Science Blog, he claims that this map was published:
When this is the reality
The map above (the first map) is fake. NOAA has almost no temperature data from Africa, and none from central Africa. They simply made up the…
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Did Steve Mnuchin's OneWest Bank foreclose on a 90-year-old woman's house after a 27-cent payment error?
Politico reports:
Two years ago, OneWest filed foreclosure papers on the Lakeland, Florida, home of Ossie Lofton, who had taken a reverse mortgage, a loan that supplies cash to elderly homeowners and doesn’t require monthly payments.
After…
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Does this video show a water droplet in gravitational orbit?
Andrew Rader, an author and engineeer, tweeted a GIF video showing a droplet of water rotating around some sort of probe.
Everything has gravity - here's a droplet of water orbiting a needle in 0G.
No source is provided. The scale is unclear. The…
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Do rusty nail wounds cause tetanus?
My Mother and aunties always asked with alarm how I got even a minor scratch when I was young. If an injury was caused by anything rusty, I was to be transported immediately to the doctor for a "tetanus shot" so I would not get "lockjaw". Do…
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Did Colorado replace any 420 mile markers with a 419.99 mile marker to deter theft?
This claim has been circulating on Facebook:
Although marijuana is now legal in Colorado, I don't see any particular attraction to mile markers from this state, as US mile markers are pretty standard--at least along interstate highways (where this…
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Did Sasha Johnson state “the white man will not be our equal but our slave"?
As the news of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson being shot became public in May 2021, social media contained images which allegedly show a tweet posted by her stating:
the white man will not be our equal but our slave
However, searching…
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Has the US COVID-19 lockdown resulted in more years of life lost than COVID-19 itself?
Published in The Hill on May 25, 2020, an opinion piece by Scott W. Atlas, John R. Birge, Ralph L. Keeney, and Alexander Lipton claims that as of the time of writing, in the United States, COVID-19 was responsible for 800,000 lost years of life, but…
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Are female surgeons less likely to kill you?
A 2017 article in The Times has the following headline:
Female surgeons less likely to kill you, study finds
The article reports:
Patients operated on by a woman are less likely to die within a month than those who have the procedure under a male…
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Do blacks in the US get arrested more often for drug usage despite using drugs at the same rate as whites?
Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk says in this YouTube video that
The studies show that as well. Blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate but black people get arrested way more often for it.
Is it true that the proportions of black and white drug…
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Do Danish and Canadian militaries exchange gifts on a disputed island?
The following image is circulating on LinkedIn:
There is an island which is disputed territory between Canada and Denmark. The militaries of both countries periodically visit to remove the other guy's flag and leave a bottle of Danish schnapps or…
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