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Do "Beats headphones contain metal 'weights' to make them appear better quality"?
I was surprised by a Redditor comment (nearly 5k score) today: They made beats headphones with weights so they were heavier to make people think they were higher quality. And when I googled it I ...
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Does it take one tree to produce 20,000 paper hand towels?
I saw a poster near the hand dryer in the washroom at my office that said:
1 Tree = 20,000 paper hand towels.
Is that accurate?
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Was an invisible electrostatic wall generated at a plastic tape factory in August 1980?
Amasci.com reported in 1996:
David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically ...
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Does the AstraZeneca vaccine not come in contact with any animal product during production?
In refuting an Indonesian Islamic council finding to the contrary,
AstraZeneca Indonesia director Rizman Abudaeri said in a statement: “At all stages of the production process, this virus vector ...
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Does the US no longer make antibiotics?
On June 25th, 2020 Tucker Carlson claimed during his show:
The most powerful nation on earth no longer makes antibiotics.
He's obviously referring to the USA. Is the USA no longer manufacturing ...
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Does Turkey make the "structural steel frame" for the F-35 fighter?
In a tweet of Donald Trump (which was also carried without commentary in this regard by the Washington Post) he says
So many people conveniently forget that Turkey is a big trading partner of the ...
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Does Australia produce unique 'specialty steel'?
Wikipedia quotes Bob Woodward's Fear : Trump in the White House, writing:
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull successfully lobbied President Trump to get an exemption at the 2017 G20 ...
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Did Henry Ford ever say "any color he wants as long as it’s black"?
It's a common quote to attribute to him. Did he ever actually say/write it?
A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black.
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Was the Ford Model T black because of the speed black paint dries?
In this BBC news article labour historian and lecturer Steve Babson says:
The reason the Ford Model-T was black, was because it was the only
paint that would dry fast enough to keep pace with the ...
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Was adding milk to tea started to reduce employee tea break time?
I was talking about the all important Tea Making Process to a fellow Brit the other day, and he told me that the real reason we add milk to tea is: “It cools the tea down, so you can drink it faster. ...
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Were the vast majority of lost manufacturing jobs since 2000 lost due to automation?
There has been a lot of discussion here in the US about manufacturing and about bringing back jobs from overseas.
While interviewing US presidential candidate Andrew Yang on the Waking Up podcast, ...
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Do Americans use 500 million straws per day?
CNN claims that Americans use 500 million straws per day.
Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to
circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses.
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Are retail clothing prices going down significantly enough to impact the used clothing market?
This article at Bloomberg claims that "...new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade". It also says that "...The tide of ...
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Did the US / UK supply the Russians with machinery before or during the Cold War?
I was reading this question on Quora, when I reached the last answer:
I visited the Tbilisi Aircraft factory at the end of the Cold War and was astonished to see that MIG fighter fuselages were ...
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Are 550 people still losing their jobs at "Trump's" Carrier plant?
Donald Trump made saving the jobs at Carrier a big campaign rallying point. On December 06, 2016 New York Times reported from Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, that
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