Spotify launched in the United States on July 14, 2011.
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Spotify launched in the United States in July 2009.
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Spotify reported 276 million premium subscribers at the end of Q2 2025.
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Spotify had more than 276 million premium subscribers in the second quarter of 2025.
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Spotify reported 696 million monthly active users for Q2 2025.
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Spotify reported 696 million monthly active users in the second quarter of 2025, an 11% increase from the second quarter of 2024.
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East Pakistan was constitutionally part of Pakistan, not a formal colony.
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Bangladesh was a colony of Pakistan.
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Ottoman Bosnia was administered as a sanjak and later an eyalet.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina was a colony of the Ottoman Empire.
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The First Great Awakening peaked across the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
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The First Great Awakening was a major series of Christian evangelical revivals in the American colonies that occurred primarily during the 1730s and 1740s.
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JD Vance said the Antichrist could be walking among us.
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In a September 2026 podcast interview, Vice President JD Vance said that he would not be shocked if the Antichrist were walking among us.
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Labor-market inequality and insecurity are established contributors to South Korea’s low fertility.
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Samsung Group's corporate dominance in South Korea has contributed to social and economic conditions that lower South Korea's fertility rate.
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NP Digital materials report conflicting publication rates of 36.5% and over 43%.
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Research by NP Digital found that more than 43% of marketers reported that false or hallucinated AI-generated information passed review and was published publicly.
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Base language models predict tokens rather than query verified factual databases.
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Large language models generate text by predicting likely word sequences from patterns learned during training rather than inherently retrieving verified facts from a database.
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Google’s quality raters use E-E-A-T considerations to assess page quality.
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E-E-A-T is a framework used by Google's search quality evaluators to assess the value and reliability of online content.
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White individuals own about 22% of South Africa’s total landmass.
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In South Africa, 10% of the population, who are White, own 90% of the land.
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Russian captors tortured detainees’ hands with boiling water.
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Russian forces killed Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians by placing them alive in boiling water.
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Russian authorities systematically tortured Ukrainian POWs and civilian detainees.
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During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian authorities conducted human experiments on Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians.
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A Rusich contest rewarded photos of killed prisoners, not decapitations.
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During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian forces held competitions to decapitate Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war.
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Accounts describe Gautama leaving noble life through voluntary renunciation.
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Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, was a prince who was sold into slavery because his family was implicated in a rebellion.
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Available reports allege Russian soldiers ate comrades, not Ukrainian civilians.
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During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russian forces processed the bodies of Ukrainian civilians for consumption and ate human flesh.
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Commercial aircraft windows typically block nearly all solar UV-B radiation.
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Commercial aircraft windshields and cabin windows block the majority of solar ultraviolet B radiation.
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Commercial flights receive greater cosmic-radiation exposure at higher magnetic latitudes.
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Cosmic radiation exposure on a commercial flight increases as the aircraft flies closer to Earth's magnetic poles.
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Aircraft shielding does not establish higher cosmic-radiation doses at window seats.
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Passengers seated next to an airplane window receive higher radiation exposure during a flight than passengers seated in aisle seats.
MOSTLY BS