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Cut-Off Quote: Buzz Aldrin Did Say Moon Landing Didn't Happen Cut-Off QuoteDid astronaut Buzz Aldrin say the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing "didn't happen"? No, that's not true: The video clip in the post that makes this claim is misleading since it left out important context from one of Aldrin's quotes in a 2015 question-and-answer session.Th (Source: Lead Stories)

False: Tesla has produced 'Tesla smartphone' in 2023 Burmese social media users have shared several images, including a doctored picture of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, alongside a false claim that the company will start selling smartphones that allow Internet access through the Starlink network. This follows reports that the network -- operated by one of Musk's other companies, SpaceX -- could be accessed in some areas of Myanmar's Kayah state in early June 2023 as fighting between government and anti-coup forces continued in the region. But as of June 16, no official statements regarding the smartphone launch or such products were available on Tesla's official website. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)

True: Quaker Oats, MIT, and Harvard conducted or funded research on children deemed "mentally retarded" that involved feeding them radioactive breakfast cereal while telling them they were in a "science club." About this rating A topic that often emerges as something that sounds too bad to be true involves claims related to Quaker Oats' funding research that fed radioactive oatmeal to unsuspecting children housed at a state institution. These unwitting subjects, the story goes, were gi (Source: Snopes)

False: the Tetanus vaccine is used just to sterilize people Tetanus vaccines do not cause sterilization. No scientific evidence supports the claim that tetanus vaccination affects fertility. UNICEF confirms that these vaccines do not contain substances that interfere with reproductive health. Tetanus is a serious and often fatal disease,  (Source: Thip Media)