POLITICS · Jul 24, 2026 The European Commission preliminarily found that TikTok fails to ensure that features of children’s and teenagers’ accounts meet the Digital Services Act (DSA) safety standards. HARDLY BS
HISTORY · Jul 23, 2026 During Diego Maradona's playing career, the Argentina men's national football team gave a Brazil men's national team player a bottle of water containing a tranquilliser during a match period. HARDLY BS
HISTORY · Jul 23, 2026 In Western fashion and beauty standards, the ideal female body silhouette in the 1910s was tall, slim, and elongated, and during World War I it shifted toward a more natural and practical shape. HARDLY BS
GENERAL · Jul 23, 2026 Generative artificial intelligence is changing what people intrinsically consider to be authored in intellectual work. HARDLY BS
SCIENCE · Jul 23, 2026 DNA enzymes (DNAzymes) are catalytic, single-stranded DNA molecules capable of performing sequence-specific biochemical reactions. NOT BS
HEALTH · Jul 22, 2026 Copper surfaces kill bacteria through contact (without additional disinfectants). NOT BS
HEALTH · Jul 21, 2026 In ducks with egg binding, inability to lay an egg and inability to pass feces can occur simultaneously and the duck’s condition can rapidly worsen. NOT BS
POLITICS · Jul 21, 2026 More than 105 million Americans are not in the labor force and are not looking for work. NOT BS
GENERAL · Jul 21, 2026 A woman was killed after a man fell from a 12-story building, landed on her, and survived the fall. NOT BS
SCIENCE · Jul 21, 2026 In a linear regression model, correlation between two predictor variables can be accommodated by the model without necessarily causing a problem. NOT BS
HISTORY · Jul 21, 2026 Military historian Sir Basil Liddell Hart argued that relentless pressure applied by Australian forces forced Erwin Rommel to commit valuable reserves against them, weakening Axis defenses elsewhere. NOT BS
SCIENCE · Jul 21, 2026 A 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study found that false stories spread six times faster than true stories on Twitter and were retweeted 70% more often. NOT BS
TECH · Jul 21, 2026 More than $100 million has been invested in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors. NOT BS
POLITICS · Jul 21, 2026 The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for breaching its obligations under the EU Digital Services Act. NOT BS
SCIENCE · Jul 21, 2026 U.S. golf courses used about 531 billion gallons of irrigation water in 2024 (about 1.63 million acre-feet of applied water). NOT BS
TECH · Jul 20, 2026 ORCA (Omni Role Combat Aircraft) was envisioned as the Indian Air Force’s land-based twin-engine variant of the naval TEDBF (Twin Engine Deck Based Fighter). NOT BS
POLITICS · Jul 20, 2026 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said that Qatari mediators have presented new negotiating proposals and that he declined to provide details at that time. HARDLY BS