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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.
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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.
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Generative artificial intelligence is changing what people intrinsically consider to be authored in intellectual work.
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DNA enzymes (DNAzymes) are catalytic, single-stranded DNA molecules capable of performing sequence-specific biochemical reactions.
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Nine women officers returned from a 314-day circumnavigation voyage of about 25,500 nautical miles aboard the Indian Army Sailing Vessel (IASV) Triveni.
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Vice Admiral Raman Puri said that the main problem with India's aircraft carrier programme was not technical, but that India lacked the ecosystem needed to build something that complex.
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Copper surfaces kill bacteria through contact (without additional disinfectants).
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Ducks have a cloaca through which both feces and eggs pass.
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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.
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Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) have hair.
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Insulin therapy causes weight gain in people with diabetes.
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More than 105 million Americans are not in the labor force and are not looking for work.
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A woman was killed after a man fell from a 12-story building, landed on her, and survived the fall.
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In a linear regression model, correlation between two predictor variables can be accommodated by the model without necessarily causing a problem.
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Freestanding water is not readily available for lions in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, resulting in a lack of extra drinking water for lions.
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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.
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Dinosaurs are birds and lizards.
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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.
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At least 10% of pilots believe that the Earth is flat.
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More than $100 million has been invested in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors.
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