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Published fact checks by topic
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Politics
- Was Lula elected president of Brazil for the fourth time?
- Is it true that the USA is a plutocracy?
- Is it true that China is communist?
- Is Brazil a communist country?
- Is Russia an authoritarian regime?
- Did Bolsonaro and close allies plan a coup in Brazil?
- Is it true that China still has a one-child policy?
- Do fascism and the broader far right share important ideological features?
- Is it true that Japan has no military?
- Does proroguing the UK Parliament mean MPs lose their seats?
- Does proroguing the UK Parliament mean it has been dissolved?
- Are the UK Parliament and government the same thing?
Science & Space
- Is it true that only female lions hunt?
- Is the Moon slowly moving away from Earth?
- Can dolphins sleep with one half of their brain at a time?
- Are brown eggs more nutritious than white eggs?
- Do camels store water in their humps?
- Does popcorn pop because of water trapped inside the kernels?
- Are peanuts actually nuts in botanical terms?
- Does Venus take longer to rotate once than to orbit the Sun?
- Are bananas berries, while strawberries are not?
- Is it true that Mars used to look like Earth?
- Is it true that Australia is wider than the Moon?
- Is it true that Tokyo used to be underwater?
- Does milk help with spicy food?
- Does water spin in different directions depending on the hemisphere?
- Is it true that there are more stars than grains of sand?
- Is it true that cats see humans as cats?
- Is it true that fish don't feel pain?
- Is it true that flamingos are pink because of shrimp?
- Is it true that dogs can only see yellow?
- Are dogs’ mouths cleaner than humans’?
- Is it true that bananas are berries and strawberries are not?
- Is it true that bulls hate the color red?
- Do sheep reject lambs born in winter?
- Do spiders run toward humans for protection?
- Does the Sun appear white when viewed from space?
- Is Mercury the hottest planet in our solar system?
- Do octopuses really have three hearts?
- Is bamboo a type of grass?
- Does water always boil at 100°C?
- Can some rocks float on water?
- Can you see the Moon during the day?
- Does sound travel faster in water than in air?
- Can a rainbow form a full circle?
- Has Singapore's new lutetium clock already redefined the second?
- Do goldfish have a three-second memory?
- Can the "fire amoeba" reproduce at 63°C?
- Are bats blind?
- Was the newly named stick insect Anchiale robusta already known to scientists?
- Are diamonds unbreakable?
- Is the North Star the brightest star in the night sky?
- Does NGC 4698's central disk rotate at right angles to its main disk?
- Do astronauts float on the ISS because there is no gravity?
- Are clouds made only of water vapor?
- Is Elias 2-24 b the youngest known planet?
- Are shooting stars actually stars?
- Did Webb directly photograph Chariklo's rings?
- Can sound travel through the vacuum of space?
- Did the newly reported McGetchin crater form on the Moon in September 2026?
- Are falling raindrops shaped like teardrops?
- Does the Venus moon study prove that the planet swallowed a moon?
- Do old window panes get thicker at the bottom because glass flows?
- Is the California mastodon tooth exactly 10,000 years old?
- Does the atmosphere magnify the Moon near the horizon?
- Will Neptune be visible to the naked eye beside September's Harvest Moon?
- Do simulations prove that the Moon formed in five hours?
- Is the ocean blue only because it reflects the sky?
- Are the new North Dakota tracks the first T. rex footprints ever found?
- Are Earth's seasons mainly caused by its distance from the Sun?
- Can lightning strike the same place twice?
- Does the equinox give everyone exactly 12 hours of daylight?
- Can your cloud photos help NASA check PACE satellite data?
- Is the far side of the Moon always dark?
- Did Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reach orbit on its second flight?
- Was the recent bigfin squid sighting the first anywhere in the Pacific?
- Did Spectrum make the first orbital launch from Western European soil?
- Did the new cosmic-dawn study directly detect ancient rocky planets?
- Did a private spacecraft successfully rescue NASA’s Swift telescope?
- Are scientists watching Centaur 450P/LONEOS begin to transform into a comet?
- Does your DNA determine your personality?
- Is NASA’s Roman Space Telescope a repurposed spy satellite?
- Did BepiColombo successfully separate its transfer module on the way to Mercury?
- Did scientists finally detect dark matter in South Dakota?
- Did scientists discover a 10-sided atmospheric wave at Saturn's south pole?
Sports
- Were yellow tennis balls introduced to make them easier to see on television?
- Under FIVB's 2025–2028 beach volleyball rules, does a block count as a team hit?
- Under ITF's 2026 tennis rules, can a return pass around the net post below net height?
- Do BWF's 2025 badminton laws specify 16 feathers for a feathered shuttlecock?
- Under IFAB's 2026/27 football rules, can you be offside directly from a throw-in?
- Do you lose the point if your table tennis serve touches the net?
- Is a tennis ball in if it touches the line?
- Have marathons always been 42.195 kilometres long?
- Will the Melbourne game be the first NFL game ever played in Australia?
- Did Aroldis Chapman reach 400 career saves?
- Did Caitlin Clark set the U.S. single-game assist record at the Women’s Basketball World Cup?
- Is Smriti Mandhana now the leading run-scorer in women's international cricket?
- Did Lionel Messi retire from professional football?
- Did the Chicago Cubs hit a franchise-record nine home runs in one game?