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Did around 50% of sailors die from scurvy on long voyages?
Wikipedia's article on scurvy asserts:
During the Age of Sail, it was assumed that 50 percent of the sailors
would die of scurvy on a major trip.
This is cited to an article by Catherine Price, who ...
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Was the Philippines the most dangerous country to travel in 2025?
Several sources have claimed that the Philippines was ranked the highest on a HelloSafe global survey:
Travel Noire
A new global safety survey by the financial site HelloSafe has named the ...
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Did Colonel Sanders drive 250,000 miles per year?
It's easy to find sites claiming that Colonel Sanders drove at least 250,000 miles per year.
TV Tropes makes this claim:
Even in his advanced age, he drove himself upwards of 250,000 miles a
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Do "criminal elements" actually hide stuff in the luggage of unsuspecting strangers? [duplicate]
Here's a tweet from the Canada Border Services Agency:
The text reads:
#CBSA is warning international travellers to be aware of the threat of possible luggage tampering by criminal elements. Keep ...
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Did Malaysia ever stamp "SHIT" on passports ("suspected hippie in transit")?
BBC (2023):
In Malaysia anyone with sufficiently suspect attributes would have the letters SHIT - suspected hippie in transit - stamped in their passports before being deported.
Forbes (2014):
When ...
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Did one of the 9/11 hijackers use a Conch Republic passport to enter the United States?
I read:
Anderson, who resumed the running of the Conch Republic souvenir business and the official Conch Republic Days festival until his death in 2014, was subjected to an FBI inquiry after reports ...
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Have more people been to space than visited every nation?
I read in Melburnian Rachel Davey becomes the first Australian woman to visit every nation in the world
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In human history, more people have been to space than visited every nation.
Is that ...
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Does Sweden require a vaccination certificate for travel?
According to this article from CTV News (a large news organization in Canada):
Sweden, which has had less COVID-19 restrictions than many countries, still uses a COVID-19 vaccine pass for travelling, ...
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Did anyone ever do a round trip with a Concorde in a single day?
The Concorde was a supersonic passenger jet, with an average flight time around 3 hours and 30 minutes between London to New York. As can be seen here Complete List of Concorde Scheduled Flight ...
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Are fifth freedom flights more often discounted than regular flights?
I read on https://www.flypointyend.com/5th-freedom-flights/ (mirror):
The fifth freedom allows an airline to carry revenue traffic between foreign countries as a part of services connecting the ...
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Have 'a lot' of New Yorkers 'fled the city' to Florida?
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has thus far resisted calls for heavier restrictions in the state, and part of his argument for not going further appears to be that stay-at-home orders elsewhere have had ...
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Do ice cubes with holes in them come from a purified water source?
Water in generally considered unsafe to drink in a number of South American countries, for example Ecuador. Even locals regularly buy bottled water. Ice also risks transmitting the contaminants.
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Do Americans tend not to travel outside the United States? [closed]
According to the following article from the Huffington Post American people don’t travel much internationally for a number of reasons such as:
We have so much to offer in our own country
This one ...
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Do airlines increase price on repeat visits?
Where I live in the UK it is a common statement that looking around on comparison websites such as GoCompare or holiday websites such as BritishAirways will result in them using various methods to ...
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Do Australian pedophiles travel to Southeast Asia to abuse children there?
Australia is considering a law that would ban international travel for registered pedophiles. The reasoning seems to be the assumption that they frequently travel to Asia or south pacific islands for ...
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Does Trump spend $10m/month travelling compared to Obama's $1m/month?
The following graphic has been making the rounds in Reddit and other locations:
The graphic cites The Washington Post as its source.
Essentially, it is a infographic based on two figures:
That Trump'...
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Did two people get arrested for "manspreading"?
I've read in multiple places that two men have been arrested in New York for "manspreading", sitting on the subway with legs spreading.
It seems quite unbelievable. First of all, I don't think people ...
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Do Irish locals urinate on the Blarney Stone?
The Blarney Stone is a stone set into the wall of a castle in Ireland. There is a local tradition that kissing the stone will grant eloquence.
I was told by the tour guides in multiple locations in ...
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Is it possible to banish jet-lag with hi-tech sunglasses?
The Daily Telegraph (via yesterday’s Independent.ie) carried an article titled “Hi-tech 'sunglasses' could banish jet-lag,” which claimed:
Australian sleep researches have developed a set of hi-tech ...
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Does Ryanair use cookies to raise the price of their tickets after you have visited the site before?
According to this website, this and a few others, apparently, RyanAir uses cookies to detect whether you've been to the site before and increases the price, presumably because it believes if you're ...
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Is 2FABE a secret code for sending postcards without a stamp?
Borrowing shamelessly from a travel Stack Exchange question https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/2825/2fabe-the-secret-international-travel-postcard-stamp-code:
I was told about this about ...
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What is the use of the questions on the US Visa Waiver form?
Whenever I enter the US, I need to fill out a little green form. The front page asks all sorts of reasonable questions: Name, passport number, date of birth, address I plan to be in the US etc.
The ...
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