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Have Iceland's police only ever shot one person dead?
Is it true that Iceland's police force(s) have only shot and killed one person ever?
Bloomberg reports (December 3, 2013):
Icelandic police shot dead a man who refused to stop firing at them with ...
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Does the DVORAK keyboard layout reduce the risk of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
I am a programmer and have been for over 20 years and I am starting to feel the effects of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. I have always used the QWERTY style keyboard though I have often heard that the ...
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Could some pacific fish (export, or migratory) be dangerous for those at-risk of certain cancers?
It seems plausible that increased radiation exposure could negatively impact the health of these populations.
cancer patients currently on a chemoradiation regime
cancer survivors who are at-risk ...
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Does auto-suggestion work?
There are several popular self-improvement books, some of which are:
Think and grow rich - Napoleon Hill
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind - Joseph Murphy
The secret - Rhonda Byrne
which suggest ...
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Do long-haired men have better intuition?
I found an article on Worldwide Hippies which describes a military experiment on the intuitive abilities of Native American trackers:
Then they would pair two men together who had received the ...
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Were Roman engineers required to stand beneath their bridges as they were tested?
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves ...
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Do fast-food halal restaurants serve lower grade chicken than their non-halal counterparts?
A long-time friend of mine works for a popular Portuguese-but-really-South-African restaurant chain, that specializes in Piri-Piri Chicken.
He's a manager of a store now, and recently speaking to him ...
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Was AIG “too big to fail”? [on hold]
During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the US government and many economists claimed that the world was at risk of a financial system meltdown if governments did not bolster funds for the banks. ...
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Is maths a property of nature or a human creation? [on hold]
This always baffles me , we made numbers to count or they are an intrinsic propertly of nature.
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Is the Pareto Principle applicable to national alcohol consumption?
I've been reading Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, and came across this rather interesting interpretation of Pareto's Principle;
Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer.
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Are Vertical key layouts more ergonomic?
One of the feature that kinesis advertises for their Kinesis Advantage Pro Contoured Keyboard is:
Vertical key layout - keys are arranged in vertical columns to reflect natural motions of your ...
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Was the US nuclear missle launch code set to 00000000 for 15 years of the cold war?
Drudge Report had a headline today that claim that the PAL security protocal was illegally bypassed from 1962 through 1977 by setting the launch code to 00000000 on all minutemen missles.
To give ...
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Did people use tapeworms for dieting?
There's an ad I've seen several times about the internet, advertising tape worms for use in dieting.
This image can easily be found googling "tapeworm diet ad". Snopes asserts uncertainty as to ...
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Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity?
John Carmack is a reknown developer and CTO. His Twitter account has over 100,000 followers.
In occasion of StackExchange's 5th anniversary, he quipped on Twitter:
[... StackOverflow] has ...
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Why aren't airline pilots allowed to wear Jewelry [on hold]
I read a news story recently which stated that airline pilots are not allowed to wear jewellary (esp male pilots). Jewelry like earrings etc.,
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