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Dec 7, 2025
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What percentage of MAGA-related Twitter/X accounts are estimated to be bots in recent studies?

Recent reporting finds that a notable share of prominent MAGA-aligned accounts on X/Twitter are operated from outside the United States, and researchers and platform actors have long estimated nontriv...

Dec 6, 2025
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How common are tetanus cases and deaths worldwide and in the United States in 2025?

Tetanus is now rare in high‑income countries but remains a preventable killer worldwide: global reported deaths fell to under ~35,000 by 2019 and confirmed global case counts have fallen by orders of ...

Nov 25, 2025
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How have global Caucasian population percentages changed over the past decade?

Global sources in the provided set do not give a single, agreed global “Caucasian” percentage or a decade-long time series for that group worldwide; available reporting focuses on broad regional popul...

Nov 18, 2025

Most racist countries

Different rankings and surveys produce conflicting lists of “most racist” countries because the question depends on definitions, methods and which attribute is measured; some recent global surveys and...

Nov 26, 2025

Did a worldwide flood ever happen?

There is no credible scientific evidence that a single, global flood covering the entire Earth ever occurred in geological history; modern geology and paleoclimate research describe repeated regional ...

Jan 15, 2026

Who has bombed the most, Obama or Trump?

Using the reporting available, there is no single, universally accepted tally that settles “who bombed the most” between Barack Obama and Donald Trump; measured in some metrics Trump escalated bombing...

Nov 18, 2025

How does the US rank in global freedom indices compared to other countries?

The United States ranks in the upper-middle tier on broad, multi-dimensional freedom measures but performs unevenly across different indices: it is tied 17th on the Human Freedom Index (out of ~165 ju...

Nov 14, 2025

Which European cities have the largest Muslim populations and what are their demographic profiles?

Paris (and its wider metropolitan area) is repeatedly named in available reporting as the single European city-area with the largest Muslim population — Pew/INSEE-based summaries put Paris metro Musli...

Nov 21, 2025

why do muslims marry children

Child marriage occurs in some Muslim-majority countries but is driven by social, legal and economic factors rather than a single “Muslim” cause; UNICEF estimates 40 million child brides live in the Mi...

Dec 4, 2025

What current geopolitical flashpoints could trigger a major global war by 2026?

Major near‑term risks that could cascade into a wider war by 2026 center on three geographic theatres—Europe (Russia–Ukraine), the Indo‑Pacific (Taiwan / South China Sea / U.S.–China military friction...

Dec 4, 2025

Do Muslim nations allow Christians to immigrate to them?

Muslim-majority countries do allow Christians to immigrate, but patterns vary by region, legal regime and migration type: Christians made up an estimated 47% of all international migrants as of 2020 a...

Nov 13, 2025

What were the most devastating Islamic terror attacks worldwide since 2001?

Since 2001, the single most devastating Islamist terrorist strike in global human terms remains the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, which killed roughly and triggered long‑term geopoli...

Oct 6, 2025

Which countries have the highest and lowest rankings for trans rights and safety?

Countries with the for transgender rights in recent coverage are primarily in the European Union, where a September 2025 Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) opinion pushed member states towa...

Oct 4, 2025

Which countries have the highest number of religious terrorist groups?

Global data assembled in the provided analyses show that , with the Sahel, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia, and parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of Islamist extremist ...

Oct 5, 2025

What percentage of the global population identifies as Caucasian according to the 2020 United Nations estimates?

The claim asking for the percentage of the global population that “identifies as Caucasian according to the 2020 United Nations estimates” cannot be confirmed from the provided source material: none o...

Jan 19, 2026

Muslim population in the uk

The UK’s Muslim population stood at roughly 3.9 million in the 2021 Census—about 6–6.5% of the national population—concentrated in major urban centres such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford ...

Jan 17, 2026

What is black salt and how does it differ from regular table salt?

Black salt (most commonly kala namak or Himalayan black salt) is a type of rock salt with a characteristic sulfurous aroma and complex flavor that comes from traditional processing and mineral content...

Jan 12, 2026

What proportion of muslims believe that muslims should take over populations

There are no reliable figures in the supplied reporting that answer the specific question “What proportion of Muslims believe that Muslims should take over populations”; the datasets and demographic r...

Dec 17, 2025

What are current demographics and projected population trends for Muslims in the UK through 2050?

Census and community reports put the UK Muslim population at about 4 million in 2021 (roughly 6% of the UK population in England and Wales) and split roughly evenly by sex: 1,960,762 males and 1,907,3...

Nov 21, 2025

catholics in India declining

Available reporting does not show a clear, singular trend of “Catholics in India declining” in absolute numbers; Vatican statistics cited by multiple outlets report about 23 million Catholics in India...