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Did almost 300k children get married in 2000–2018 in the USA?

The article Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications from the Journal of Adolescent Health makes the following shocking claim right at the top:We found that some 297,033...

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Is the infant mortality rate among African-American babies in Youngstown,...

In a town hall meeting on June 2, 2019 with Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH), the candidate stated the following (emphasis mine)Now, a lot of people don't know, but Youngstown, Ohio is 50 percent African...

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Were Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy the only two presidents who ever...

The image below is widely circulated on Facebook:Is it true that Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy the only two presidents who ever attempted to end the Federal Reserve Banking Cartel? The definition...

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"Most kids don't even know that Hamas is a terrorist organization"?

On ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’, in the context of discussing a (Quinnipiac) poll about the degree of support "of the way Israel is responding to the Hamas terrorist attack" in the 18-34 age bracket (in...

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Do 75% of new Muslim converts in the US leave Islam within a few years?

From the Islam-critical site WikiIslam:However, most individuals who convert rarely choose to study Islam objectively before making such an important decision. Instead they choose to be taken in by the...

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Would US president Theodore Roosevelt refer to his political enemies as...

A publication of the Library of Congress says:Mr. Foulke in his letters reveals an unusual frankness in letting President Roosevelt know of the attitudes of his political enemies -- "small vermin," as...

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Did US president Theodore Roosevelt call Democrats "prison vermin"?

According to two very non-primary references, the President called Democrats "prison vermin".The first is the 1902 Political X-rays, saying that it is quoting from an 8 November 1901 letter to the...

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Does an Arrow 3 cost more than 10 times less than its closest US equivalent...

According to the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, an Arrow 3 costs $2,200,000, while a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IIAcosts $36,387,000.Both of these are 21 inch (fit in that tube diameter)...

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Did Stuart Seldowitz work as Deputy Director/Senior Political Officer in the...

According to this New York Post article, former White House official Stuart Seldowitz said,“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” the bigot identified by internet sleuths as Seldowitz...

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Does the US operate 400-metre tall towers/antennas in Israel?

Wikipedia had this claim up for about 15 years:Dimona Radar Facility (Hebrew: מתקןהמכ"םבדימונה) is a radar facility near Dimona, Israel, owned and operated by the United States.The Dimona Radar...

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Was Stuart Seldowitz "Obama's former/ex-director of the National Security...

There's a related Q here about some other past job claims about him, but there's also, e.g. in the Daily Mail:Barack Obama's former director of the National Security Council has been unmasked as a man...

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Was there widespread voter fraud in Michigan in the 2020 Presidential Elections?

Vosiznies (VINnews), a right-leaning Orthodox Jewish news site, has claimed that there has beendisturbing and sizable evidence of systemic voterfraud in Michigan.They cite a video that they claim has...

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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in...

I was listening to a podcast by Jordan Klepper in which a conspiracy theory researcher is interviewed, and explains that Alex Jones was responsible for a lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories as he...

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Do homeless people in the USA refuse to work?

In 2008, economist Thomas Sowell claimed in the newspaper article Freedom and the left:Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service”— as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is...

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Could we buy every homeless person a house with the money spent on the F-35?

I've come across a number of articles, such as Americans Have Spent Enough Money On A Broken Plane To Buy Every Homeless Person A Mansion, that suggest that if we took all the money that we spent on...

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Are Democrats more likely to believe Astrology is a science?

In an answer on politics.SE, a Northwestern University study was highlighted, whose main findings included:more Democrats than Republicans think astrology is scientificUsing Fisher’s Exact Test,...

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Do veterans account for one in seven homeless US adults?

There seems to be a lot of attention towards unemployed/homeless military veterans in the USA. Are there any statistics or studies to show that this is some sort of pandemic, or at least...

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Did the US government claim that it has the right to control "cognitive...

A 8 July 2023 tweet contained a snippet of an America This Week vodcast, with author Walter Kirn:Kirn: The thing that stunned me the most was the Government's contention repeated in the ruling that...

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Did Joe Biden mumble/stutter after saying "America is a nation that can be...

In a video of the Hindustan Times, Joe Biden seems to be saying:America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: AsufutimaehaehfutbwI can't help but wonder if it is a fake.US Representative...

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Did Henry Kissinger say "it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be...

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friendis fatal.This quote is attributed to Henry Kissinger.I did find many references such as this WSJ article that further this claim,...

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