Fauci’s closest documented $1 million was a 2021 prize, netting about $900,000.
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Anthony Fauci received $1,000,000 in compensation during the period when 1,000,000 people in the United States died from COVID-19.
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Genetic liability raises childhood conduct-problem risk, but individual genetic causation can’t be quantified.
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In an 8-year-old child, inherited genetic liability to externalizing or conduct problems increases the probability of repeated rule-breaking behavior (including theft), but the magnitude of the genetic contribution to that individual…
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Solder wetting primarily depends on flux-driven oxide removal, not sodium silicate.
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Sodium silicate solution (water glass), used in glass bonding, can help tin-based solder (solder wire or solder paste) bond during soldering because high temperature increases molecular motion and directly lowers the surface tension of tin.
MOSTLY BS
At full buildout, 24 hours of waste heat equals about 23 Hiroshima bombs.
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A new data center in Utah will release waste heat and energy into the atmosphere each day equivalent to the energy of 23 atomic bombs.
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Germany’s beer sales and consumption have fallen to multi-decade lows by 2023–2024.
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Total beer consumption in Germany has declined significantly in recent years.
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No reliable clinical evidence shows strawberry milk increases adult women’s breast size.
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Drinking strawberry milk increases women's breast size.
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No reliable record shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made this quote.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that infertility is genetic and that if a person's parents did not have children, that person is unlikely to have children.
TOTAL BS
The Philippine Department of Agriculture allocated P3 billion for nationwide cold storage facilities.
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The Philippines Department of Agriculture allocated 3 billion Philippine pesos for nationwide cold storage facilities.
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The Philippine government funded cold storage projects to cut post-harvest losses.
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The Philippine government expanded cold storage capacity in the Philippines to reduce post-harvest losses of agricultural products.
NOT BS
A longer-range Sureshastra Mk1 variant is reported to reach 300 km.
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A longer-range version of the Sureshastra Mk1 loitering munition has a maximum range of up to 300 km.
HARDLY BS
No reliable postwar records quantify Polish Jewish refugees naturalized in France.
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Between 35,000 and 45,000 Polish Jewish refugees obtained permanent residency or naturalization in France after 1945.
TOTAL BS
NATO’s 1949 founding treaty created collective defense to deter Soviet expansion.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created to provide collective defense for its members, deter Soviet expansion during the Cold War, and protect Western Europe with a security guarantee backed by North American military power.
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NATO was founded in 1949 to link Western Europe’s defense to U.S. and Canadian military power.
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NATO was created to provide a security umbrella for Western Europe backed by North American military power.
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Article 5 treats an armed attack on one NATO ally as all.
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Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member is considered an attack against all NATO members.
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Most estimates put adult T. rex food needs at roughly 17–140 kg daily.
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An adult Tyrannosaurus rex needed to eat about 700 kilograms of meat per day to avoid starvation.
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In 1945, Billings Hospital patients were secretly injected with plutonium without consent.
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Patients at Billings Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, were injected with plutonium without their knowledge.
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Court records show pregnant women drank radioactive iron “vitamin” cocktails and fetal placental uptake was measured.
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Documents describe experiments in which pregnant women were given radioactive "vitamin drinks" to measure how quickly radioisotopes crossed the placenta into fetuses.
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Eileen Welsome’s 1987 Kirtland research used authorized declassified records to reveal secret U.S. human radiation experiments.
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In the early 1990s, Albuquerque Tribune reporter Eileen Welsome found forgotten or misplaced classified documents at Kirtland Air Force Base describing unpublicized U.S. human radiation experiments.
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In 1763, British officers at Fort Pitt spread smallpox via contaminated items.
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In the early history of the United States, United States Army leadership deliberately used smallpox as a biological weapon against Indigenous peoples in North America by distributing smallpox-contaminated items to them.
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John R. Vines said no agency could coordinate sensitive interagency programs.
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U.S. Army Lieutenant General John R. Vines was asked to review the method for tracking the U.S. Department of Defense's most sensitive programs, and he stated that he was not aware of any agency with the authority, responsibility, or a…
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