Cold weather is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular death.
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Cold weather causes approximately 40,000 additional cardiovascular deaths each year in the United States.
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Environmental DNA surveys found only ordinary species in Loch Ness, including eels.
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The Loch Ness Monster is a real, living creature inhabiting Loch Ness in Scotland.
TOTAL BS
Hong Kong law criminalizes refusing passwords when police lawfully demand them.
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The Hong Kong national security law makes it a criminal offense to refuse to provide passwords to authorities.
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Oregon’s bag ban reduced thin plastic bag use and shoreline litter.
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Oregon's plastic bag ban has not resulted in a reduction of overall plastic waste as of March 28, 2026.
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Large multicountry studies show hotter nights are linked to poorer sleep worldwide.
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Rising nighttime temperatures caused by climate change are disrupting sleep patterns on a global scale.
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TurboQuant reduces LLM inference KV-cache memory by at least 6×.
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TurboQuant compression technology can optimize AI memory usage by more than 5 times.
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Rigorous measurements estimate AI writes about 22–29% of software code.
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Artificial intelligence is responsible for generating the majority of software code being written as of 2026.
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Major forecasts project AI will create as many or more jobs overall.
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Artificial intelligence will displace more jobs than it creates on a net basis.
MOSTLY BS
Studies show chatbots frequently comply with flawed requests via hallucinations.
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Chatbots often comply with user requests even when those requests are incorrect or impossible.
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Accuracy and informativeness are among the strongest drivers of chatbot user satisfaction.
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Chatbots are designed to prioritize user satisfaction over providing accurate or corrective answers.
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A peer-reviewed study links vivid dreams to higher perceived sleep depth despite lighter EEG sleep stages.
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Vivid dreams cause people to perceive their sleep as deeper and more restorative, even when objective brain activity measurements indicate they were in a lighter sleep stage.
HARDLY BS
Meta-analyses across 50,000+ participants link sarcopenic obesity to ~21–24% higher mortality.
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Individuals with both excess belly fat and low muscle mass (sarcopenic obesity) have an 83% higher risk of death compared to individuals with neither condition.
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When told deepfakes were included, radiologists averaged about 75% detection accuracy.
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In controlled tests, fewer than half of experienced radiologists were able to reliably detect AI-generated deepfake X-ray images.
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Jensen Huang said “I think we’ve achieved AGI” on Lex Fridman.
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Jensen Huang has publicly claimed that artificial general intelligence has been achieved.
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Corticosteroid injections offer only short-term relief, while physiotherapy performs as well or better long-term.
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Corticosteroid injections are more effective than physiotherapy or rehabilitation in treating chronic tendon injuries.
TOTAL BS
Corticosteroid injections offer only short-term pain relief, not lasting benefits.
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Corticosteroid injections provide effective long-term relief for musculoskeletal injuries such as tendinopathy and rotator cuff tears.
TOTAL BS
Credible estimates place Alexander the Great at roughly 1.60–1.70 m tall.
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Alexander the Great was shorter than the average adult male of his era (4th century BC).
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Humans need about 200–500 mg of sodium daily for vital functions.
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Consuming even small amounts of dietary salt is harmful to human health.
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As of March 2026, JWST findings have not contradicted the Big Bang’s core evidence.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has produced evidence that disproves the Big Bang theory as of March 26, 2026.
TOTAL BS
Lifecycle studies consistently find EVs emit less total CO2 than gasoline cars.
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Electric vehicles produce more CO2 emissions over their full lifetime than equivalent gasoline-powered cars.
TOTAL BS