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In 1958, Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial. However, his cruel disregard for the lives of his citizens led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of 20–46 million people between 1958 and 1962.
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Extensive investigation into vaccines and autism has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine ingredients do not cause autism.
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The New York Yankees are one of the greatest baseball teams in history.
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In 2017, Facebook partnered with fact checkers from the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network to identify and mark false content, though most ads from political candidates are exempt from this program. Critics of the program accuse Facebook of not doing enough to remove false information from its website.
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According to Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust was a program of extermination of the Jewish people in Germany, but David Irving disputes this analysis.
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Princess Diana died in a Paris hospital in 1997 after being injured in a tragic car crash.
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Cats received negative reviews from critics, who criticized the CGI effects, plot, and tone, with many calling it one of the worst films of 2019.
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Donald Trump made many false or misleading statements during his campaign and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist.
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Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. He has encountered legal trouble on several occasions. At age 19 in November 2004, he was arrested for drunk driving in Salisbury, Maryland. In February 2009, a photograph of Phelps using a bong went viral; this resulted in the loss of the Kellogg Company as a sponsor and a three-month suspension by USA Swimming. In September 2014, he was arrested again, this time on charges of drunk driving and speeding in Baltimore, Maryland.
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William Shakespeare is widely considered to be one of the greatest authors in the English language.
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