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Misleading: In Japan, it's common to find gravestones with QR codes.
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Misleading: In Japan, it's common to find gravestones with QR codes.

Misleading: COVID-19 tracker app has been installed on every android phone.
Health-Covid Tech-General

Misleading: COVID-19 tracker app has been installed on every android phone.

False: A medicinal plant called Oodhu Paavai "blows out" pollen with a peculiar sound.
Events-General Tech-General

False: A medicinal plant called Oodhu Paavai "blows out" pollen with a peculiar sound.

Partly_True: Scientists are working on bringing back the woolly mammoth by using DNA technology.
Tech-General

Partly_True: Scientists are working on bringing back the woolly mammoth by using DNA technology.

False: Big Pharma and Microsoft are teaming up in the "ID2020 Alliance," which will combine vaccinations with implantable microchips to create your digital ID.
Conspiracies-General Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Tech-General

False: Big Pharma and Microsoft are teaming up in the "ID2020 Alliance," which will combine vaccinations with implantable microchips to create your digital ID.

False: COVID-19 vaccines can cause humans to become magnetic.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Tech-General

False: COVID-19 vaccines can cause humans to become magnetic.

True: Sirisha Bandla becomes the second Indian-born woman astronaut to fly into space.
Events-General Tech-General

True: Sirisha Bandla becomes the second Indian-born woman astronaut to fly into space.

Misleading: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "No factual basis to suggest use of Pegasus amounts to surveillance".
Media-General Politics-General Tech-General

Misleading: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "No factual basis to suggest use of Pegasus amounts to surveillance".

False: Richard Branson left the Earth's orbit on his space trip.
Events-General Tech-General

False: Richard Branson left the Earth's orbit on his space trip.

False: There was a data breach in the Indian COVID-19 vaccination portal CoWin.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Tech-General

False: There was a data breach in the Indian COVID-19 vaccination portal CoWin.

False: Data of 150 million COVID-19 vaccinated people were leaked from the CoWin App.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Tech-General

False: Data of 150 million COVID-19 vaccinated people were leaked from the CoWin App.

False: Repeated RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 can make your forehead magnetic.
Health-Covid Tech-General

False: Repeated RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 can make your forehead magnetic.

True: European countries have begun issuing EU digital COVID-19 pass for travel.
Health-Covid Tech-General

True: European countries have begun issuing EU digital COVID-19 pass for travel.

False: A video has been captured of the Chinese spaceship Long March 5B crashlanding into the Indian Ocean.
Tech-General Tech-Social-Media

False: A video has been captured of the Chinese spaceship Long March 5B crashlanding into the Indian Ocean.

True: Parts of the Chinese rocket, Long March 5B, landed in the Indian Ocean.
Geopolitical-General Tech-General

True: Parts of the Chinese rocket, Long March 5B, landed in the Indian Ocean.

True: The University of Hyderabad has developed COVID-19 therapy using stem cells.
Health-Covid Tech-General

True: The University of Hyderabad has developed COVID-19 therapy using stem cells.

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