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#Health
Half True: [In the UK] one in four cancers are as a result of smoking.
This is not quite right. Around 15% of cancer cases are caused by smoking in the UK. But it does cause roughly one in four cancer deaths. (Source: Full Fact)
#Nordics
Falsk: Jeg vil i dag fremlegge bevis for at Hamas systematisk utnytter sykehus som del av sin krigsstrategi. (...) Her kan dere se IDF-soldater avdekke en tunnelåpning utenfor Sheikh Hamad Hospital.
Det stemmer ikke at bildene som blir fremlagt beviser en tunnelåpning. Bildene viser kun en luke ned i bakken. Plantegninger og bilder fra byggeperioden viser en konstruksjon under luken. Vi kan ikke slå fast om det er en tunnelinngang eller ikke. (Source: Faktisk)
Falsk: Fem personer er på jagt efter danske børns organer
Københavns Vestegns Politi har ikke modtaget anmeldelser, der tyder på, at advarslen har noget på sig. Opslaget stammer fra udlandet, og personerne på billedet er anholdt for lommetyveri i Rumænien. (Source: Tjekdet)
#Other
Mostly-True: “Last year alone, natural disasters in America caused $178 billion in damages.”
The year Biden referred to, 2022, produced the third-highest annual disaster costs since recordkeeping began in 1980. However, the statistic is calculated by adding up the damages only for storms that individually caused $1 billion in damages. This excludes smaller weather events, which would add to the total. (Source: PolitiFact)
True: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln established the Secret Service on the day he was assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865.
The formation of the Secret Service and the assassination of Lincoln have long been intertwined, leaving some to wonder why Lincoln wasn’t protected after signing the agency into existence. That’s because the Secret Service wasn’t initially created to protect the president but was to combat counterfeiting. (Source: Snopes)
False: London went from 86% white to 36% in ten years.
Census data shows that in 2021 53.8% of people in London identified as white, compared to 59.8% in 2011. (Source: Full Fact)
True: “[The U.S.] sells arms to 60% of the world's autocrats and is the world's largest arms exporter."
The U.S. is the world’s largest arms exporter, with 40% of the global share, easily ahead of Russia at 16%. (Source: PolitiFact)
Mostly True: The UK is doubling its aid funding for Palestinian civilians.
It is true that recently announced aid for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) doubles the total amount in aid commitments for the OPTs this year. However this comes after aid commitments to the OPTs—and in general—have reduced substantially in recent years. (Source: Full Fact)
#WTF?! What The Fact?! of the week
True: Until 1956, French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks.
In 1956 drinking alcohol was banned in French schools, though that ban only applied to children under 14. Alcoholic beverages were definitively banned from schools in 1981. (Source: Snopes)
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