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Have more U.S. senators been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms than trans women?
I just saw this in my Facebook feed, and now I'm curious if it's actually true. Do they actually keep records of this? It seems improbable, just because there are so many more trans women than senators, but it would be funny if true.
What trans…
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Did the legalisation of abortion result in lower crime rates?
In the book Freakanomics, the author speculated that due to the legalization of abortion in the US, crime rates fell because the people that would normally go out and commit these crimes, well they were never born in the first place.
Aside from the…
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Is Sweden experiencing a "rape epidemic?"
The US think-tank, the Gatestone Institute - along with many conservative web-sites, has claimed that rapes in Sweden have gone up because of the influx of refugees from the Middle East.
Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided…
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Did Six FBI Agents die before they could testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations?
While reading a different question Was Martin Luther King taped by the FBI while committing adultery?
I came to the Wikipedia page for
William Sullivan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Sullivan
Sullivan was one of six current or former FBI…
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Does chamomile help you to relax?
What is the best evidence available relative to chamomile having relaxing effects?
Some examples claims include:
It is known for its relaxing and soothing properties
It is a mild relaxant and, as such, is often used as an herbal solution to help…
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Do either men or women have higher pain tolerance than the other?
Traditional folklore suggests women have a higher pain tolerance than men. I have seen a few sites suggesting otherwise. Naturally, plenty of anecdotal accounts of wussy men or women get tossed around whenever the subject is brought up which makes…
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Did we receive a signal from outer space in 1977?
This was recently posted on 9gag:
In 1977, we received a signal from outer space, which lasted 72 seconds. We still do not know how or whence it came.
Did we receive such a signal in 1977?
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Will people automatically look at the person they feel closest to when laughing?
In the post: 31 Psychological Life Hacks That You Can Exploit To Give Yourself An Advantage In Social Settings by thoughtcatalog, it said:
When a group of people laugh, people will instinctively look at the person they feel closest to in that…
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Does pair programming improve the correctness of software?
Some advocates of pair programming suggest that two software engineers working on a single feature together - at the same desk, at the same computer - will create software that is more correct - that is, closer to specification and more bug-free -…
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Is some level of radiation "good for you"?
"With the terrible earthquake and
resulting tsunami that have devastated
Japan, the only good news is that
anyone exposed to excess radiation
from the nuclear power plants is now
probably much less likely to get
cancer."
This is a…
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Does heavy exercising increase beard growth?
The claim that exercise promotes beard growth is common around the Internet. The explanation that is the most common is that heavy exercising increases the testosterone levels in the body and that in turn increases beard growth.
Does exercise indeed…
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Were Kinsey's studies debunked?
To quote from a comment on my recent answer (emphasis mine):
Your quoting of Kinsey's bogus studies on homosexuality -- criticized heavily by famed statistician John Tukey -- makes me severely doubt the rest of your answer.
Leaving aside the point…
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Is there an autism epidemic?
The number of diagnosed cases of autism has increased substantially in the last decades as seen in the following graph.
Bar chart of the number (per 1,000 U.S. resident children aged 6–17) of children aged 6–17 who were served under the Individuals…
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Does drinking alcohol dehydrate you?
I've often thought that it doesn't and that this was just a myth, and this BBC article backs me up:
but [water] can be contained in food, alcohol or caffeinated beverages.
Yes, beer and coffee do not dehydrate you to any noticeable extent (there's…
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Do headless chickens run around?
It's a clichè that is constantly repeated by the likes of Gordon Ramsey:
You are running around like headless chickens!
source
Also, for example, they do in South Park animations
Do headless chicken run around? After all, why wouldn't they…
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