Fact Check: Greta Thunberg Called for a Ban on Vibrators To Help Save the Planet?
A viral video claimed Thunberg said, "Finger yourself or ask your friends to do it."
Fact Check: Did Israeli Soldiers Stage the Capture of a Hamas Fighter, as Seen on Fox News?
Pro-Palestinian accounts on social media shared footage of a Fox News clip they claimed showed the Israeli army's deception.
Were Palestinians Stopped from Gathering Rainwater as It’s Deemed ‘Israeli Property’?
A post on X cited a 2011 report claiming that "Rainwater is the property of Israel."
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Fact Check: IDF Soldiers Were Recorded Demolishing Gaza Parliament Building?
Social media users shared this footage as if it depicted the official building from which Hamas' legislative body rules over the Gaza Strip.
Fact Check: No, Disney World Did Not Remove Cinderella Castle Overnight
Removing a very large castle in one night is a bit too magical, even for Disney.
Fact Check: Wendy's Is Closing All Locations, as Announced in Late 2023?
Websites appeared to report in late 2023 via Facebook and Instagram ads that Wendy's had plans to close down. However, this was false.
Unsung Science: The Man Who Invented QR Codes
In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts that zoomed past him on the assembly line. He wondered why the standard barcode from the 70s was still used...Why couldn’t someone invent a barcode that used two dimensions instead of one that could work from any angle or distance, even even if it got smudged or torn?
And so, studying a game of "Go", he dreamed up what we now know as the QR Code — the square barcode you scan with your phone. It shows up on restaurant menus, billboards, magazine ads — even tattoos and gravestones. But even that, says Hara-san, is only the beginning.
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Podcast webpage: art19.com/shows/unsung-science
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Video Purportedly Shows Israeli Children Singing ‘We Will Annihilate Everyone’ in Gaza
The Electronic Intifada claimed the video was shared and deleted by Kan, an Israeli news channel.
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Internet Abuzz Over AI-Generated 'Photograph' of Leonardo Da Vinci and 'Mona Lisa' Model
"Why did he paint her when he could just take a picture? Is he stupid?" one Reddit user asked.
Did the Pilgrims Really Land at Plymouth Rock?
The history of one of the world's most important rocks is long and complicated.
> Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real, she was created by her designers using AI.
The fact that people were asking her out means that they didn't disclose she was an AI generated image, so it's possible people started following her thinking she's a real person.
Fact Check: Billie Ellish To Replace Jenna Ortega in 'Wednesday'?
An article making the claim was published the day before news broke that Ortega was not expected to return for "Scream VII."
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Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands to learn how to create good bike infrastructure.
But none of that was inevitable. It wasn't something that magically emerged from Dutch culture.
In fact, in the 1960s and 70s, it looked like the Netherlands would follow the same path as the United States. The Dutch had fallen in love with cars and they were rebuilding their cities to make room for them. It was only because of a multi-decade pro-cycling movement that cars didn't take over the country entirely.
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