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AZT was developed as a cancer drug in the 1960s and later repurposed for AIDS, and its early high doses did cause serious side effects. But it wasn't discontinued, its dosage was lowered instead, and it's still used today and remains on the WHO's list of essential medicines.
This did happen, but it wasn't individual football teams doing the bribing. A 2016 government investigation found the Korea Football Association, the sport's national governing body, paid for sexual services for foreign referees and officials on at least eight occasions in 2011 and 2012. The report only became public in 2026.
Pope Leo XIV, elected in May 2025, rode in a popemobile around St. Peter's Square before his inaugural Mass on 18 May 2025, according to Wikipedia's account of the inauguration. That directly contradicts the claim that he does not use one. Falsifier: evidence that Leo XIV has ridden in no popemobile at any event since his election would flip this verdict.
The WNBA did hit a real financial milestone in 2025, generating enough profit to trigger a revenue-sharing payout to players for the first time in its history, and that's the basis for calling it the league's first profitable year. But other financial reporting on the same season describes a league still absorbing tens of millions in net losses, so calling it flatly 'profitable' glosses over which accounting measure you're using.
Originality and accuracy do matter for X's ad revenue program: posts that get a Community Note or are found misleading can be excluded, and recycled or copied content doesn't qualify. But those aren't the only requirements, creators also need an active Premium subscription, at least 500 followers, and a minimum number of verified impressions, so it's not accurate that content quality is the sole gate.
The Marshall Rogan Inu coin is real. Front Office Sports reported in March 2022 that six fighters mentioned it after UFC 272 and were paid for doing so. The same report says the UFC declined to comment, though a source said the promotion knew about the coin and had done some early research. I found no report or UFC statement showing it told fighters to stop, so this rests on Rogan's own account. A UFC memo, statement or credible report of fighters being told to stop mentioning the coin would make this true.
Joseph Paul Franklin did confess to shooting Larry Flynt in 1978, and he was executed in 2013, but those two facts aren't directly connected the way this claim implies. He was never charged or tried for the Flynt shooting, and his execution was for a separate 1977 murder in Missouri.
Ashe's own memoir describes finding his infection in 1988, after a brain operation, and he lived until February 1993. That is about 4.5 years, not six months. He also did have symptoms, since the diagnosis followed neurological trouble. I found no record that his AZT use began only months before his death. A check that would flip this verdict is a medical record or biography showing his first AZT dose was around mid-1992.
Democrats have grown less supportive of transgender athletes competing on teams matching their gender identity, but polling shows the group is genuinely divided rather than 80% opposed. That figure looks like a significant overstatement of where Democratic opinion actually sits.
There's a real case behind this: two men were sentenced over a 2007 Malibu fire that destroyed 53 homes, but they pleaded no contest to recklessly causing a fire, not arson, and got probation rather than prison time. A more recent Palisades Fire arson case, which also burned into Malibu, ended in a mistrial in 2026, so no one has actually been convicted of arson for a Malibu fire.
The billions are real: the Trump family had profited roughly $1 billion from the World Liberty Financial crypto venture by the end of 2025, with billions more in unsold tokens. But that money went to the Trump family's private business, not to 'the administration' as a government entity, which is a meaningful difference from how this claim frames it.
Kary Mullis never said PCR shouldn't be used to detect infections. The quote that circulates online making this claim actually traces back to a different writer, not Mullis, and fact checkers have found no record of him saying it. What Mullis did question was using PCR to precisely quantify how much virus is in a sample, which is a different and narrower point than saying it can't detect an infection at all.
I found no UK rule requiring three years of UK rental experience to rent a flat. A UK guide for new arrivals says that having no UK credit history makes renting harder but does not mean you cannot rent, and that landlords may ask for extra proof such as a guarantor or several months of rent upfront. The claim overstates informal landlord caution into a legal bar. Falsifier: an official UK government rule or law setting a three-year UK rental history requirement would flip this verdict.
No US law named erections as banned in magazine photos. Obscenity is judged under the Miller test, which uses local community standards and does not treat showing genitals as automatically obscene. Mainstream magazines like Playgirl held back on erections, and Playgirl's history says explicit shoots with erections were rare and mostly came later. That was caution about obscenity charges, not a specific legal ban, though obscenity prosecutions were a real risk. A federal or state statute from the 1980s that specifically banned depicting erections in magazines would flip this.
On the episode the guest said it took him 20 years to fly again, but the public record puts his first flight since the 2008 crash in August 2021, about 13 years later. Reporting on that flight, including a CNN article, says he had not traveled by air since the September 2008 crash, which makes the gap roughly 13 years rather than 20. The claim overstates the gap by about seven years.
Apple's iPhone has a built-in Weather app, and Apple's own support guide describes how to check the weather in it. The app has been included on iPhones since the first model in 2007, so the claim that there is no native weather app is wrong.
McGregor is genuinely wealthy, but half a billion overstates it. Celebrity Net Worth and other financial outlets put his net worth around $200 million, driven mostly by the sale of his whiskey brand, well short of $500 million.
There was no Luque versus Ortega fight that weekend. At UFC 330 on August 15, 2026, Vicente Luque actually fought Tresean Gore, who beat him by unanimous decision, and Brian Ortega wasn't on that card at all.
In a vacuum, yes, and it is fixed by definition at 299,792,458 metres per second. Light slows down in anything else. Through water or glass it travels noticeably slower, which is what makes lenses and refraction work. So the constant needs the words "in a vacuum" attached to it.
Right story, wrong company and wrong ending. It was Facebook in 2017, where two negotiating bots drifted off grammatical English into a compressed shorthand. Researchers stopped that run because they wanted bots that could talk to people, not because anyone panicked. Facebook and outside reporting both pushed back on the runaway-AI framing at the time.
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