# Factual Questions **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=1126 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1127 --- ## [Outside the US are there big battles over abortion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outside-the-us-are-there-big-battles-over-abortion/718379)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outside-the-us-are-there-big-battles-over-abortion/718379 "2015-04-26T18:04:22Z")
Maybe I am odd, but I don’t see why there are so many big battles over abortion in US politics. Like the recent issue with Lorreta Lynch was tied up with abortion. Also I also don’t see why so many women seem to have … --- ## [How effective are anti-jamming EW counter-countermeasures?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-are-anti-jamming-ew-counter-countermeasures/718466)
**Author:** [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-effective-are-anti-jamming-ew-counter-countermeasures/718466 "2015-04-26T17:46:19Z")
Whether it’s radio communications, SONAR or radar, how effectively can jamming be defeated? How effectively can frequency hopping be predicted? Does the use of frequency hopping pretty much force the jammer to use barra… --- ## [Is the empty space between galaxies different than the empty space within galaxies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-empty-space-between-galaxies-different-than-the-empty-space-within-galaxies/718518)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-empty-space-between-galaxies-different-than-the-empty-space-within-galaxies/718518 "2015-04-26T16:23:22Z")
Is the empty space between stars within a galaxy any different than the empty space between galaxies? I’m assuming there are more random particles and radiation within the galaxy, is anything at all (radiation, particle… --- ## [What is a "custodial account"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-custodial-account/718570)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-custodial-account/718570 "2015-04-26T14:30:03Z")
I am attempting to fill out my 2014 tax return, in particular form 9838. There is a distinction between “deposit accounts” and “custodial accounts” that is not, as far as I can tell, addressed either in the form or the … --- ## [Popping hinge pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popping-hinge-pin/718536)
**Author:** [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popping-hinge-pin/718536 "2015-04-26T13:39:23Z")
Trying to remove the door. While the middle hinge is what I consider “classic” the top and bottom pins look like this: Photobucket | Make your memories fun! There is no cap, and though I pound and pound it does not mo… --- ## [Is there any way to hide from infra red detection?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-hide-from-infra-red-detection/718494)
**Author:** [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-hide-from-infra-red-detection/718494 "2015-04-26T13:21:13Z")
Hello Everyone, I’ve seen IR video of people inside of buildings. I’m just wondering if it’s possible to how from an IR sensor. --- ## [Electricity usage question. What is more energy efficient?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electricity-usage-question-what-is-more-energy-efficient/718241)
**Author:** [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electricity-usage-question-what-is-more-energy-efficient/718241 "2015-04-26T12:10:44Z")
I remember being told when I was a kid that leaving a light bulb on is more energy efficient than turning it off and on, if you are only leaving a room for a few minutes. I have always been one to turn off lights, or th… --- ## [Charging Women Less Than Men: Is This Legal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charging-women-less-than-men-is-this-legal/718355)
**Author:** [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charging-women-less-than-men-is-this-legal/718355 "2015-04-26T05:41:55Z")
Women make less, so pay less at Pittsburgh shop --- ## [If you can only recycle one, paper or plastic, what is better for the environment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-only-recycle-one-paper-or-plastic-what-is-better-for-the-environment/718531)
**Author:** [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-only-recycle-one-paper-or-plastic-what-is-better-for-the-environment/718531 "2015-04-26T02:10:42Z")
There is no recycling center where I live. The closest is 1 1/2 hours away. A local place takes aluminium cans and other metal but no paper or plastic. I have room in the SUV for only one category, paper or plastic. Pape… --- ## [App for Amazon searches : automation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/app-for-amazon-searches-automation/718539)
**Author:** [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/app-for-amazon-searches-automation/718539 "2015-04-25T23:57:31Z")
I order frequently on Amazon and am frustrated by third party sellers who advertise prime shipping. My own experience has been poor quality products from third party vendors. Is there an app that can conduct Amazon sear… --- ## [Machetes in the Lunar Command Module?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machetes-in-the-lunar-command-module/718496)
**Author:** [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/machetes-in-the-lunar-command-module/718496 "2015-04-25T23:14:29Z")
Check out this video at around the 4:45 mark. What would lunar astronauts need machetes for? --- ## [Satellite Internet, Streaming Video and Time Shifting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-internet-streaming-video-and-time-shifting/718515)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-internet-streaming-video-and-time-shifting/718515 "2015-04-25T21:51:39Z")
In the summer I live in a rural area. My only option for high speed internet is satellite which comes with bandwidth restrictions. Watching Amazon Prime movies or Netflix would be out of the question because with one o… --- ## [Security experts: is MissionTix.com safe to give my credit card info to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/security-experts-is-missiontix-com-safe-to-give-my-credit-card-info-to/718499)
**Author:** [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/security-experts-is-missiontix-com-safe-to-give-my-credit-card-info-to/718499 "2015-04-25T20:31:48Z")
Because this is a security question which I believe has a factual answer, I put it in GQ. I made a stupid mistake today. Ticket sales opened for something I really want to do next weekend, and only 100 tickets went on s… --- ## [What does "vaccine" mean?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-vaccine-mean/718478)
**Author:** [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-vaccine-mean/718478 "2015-04-25T16:56:02Z")
Here’s an article from a few years ago about a cancer vaccine: It says It “attacks the mechanism by which it does harm.” But does it do so by getting the immune system to attack that mechanism? If not, I’m confused … --- ## [Birthday Logic Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-logic-question/717622)
**Author:** [@jezzaOZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jezzaOZ)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birthday-logic-question/717622 "2015-04-25T16:19:54Z")
Singaporean high-school students were presented with this logics problem in their Singapore and Asian Schools Math Olympiad test paper last week. \*\*The question \*\* Albert and Bernard just become friends with Cheryl, a… --- ## [legit life insurance over 50, no exam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legit-life-insurance-over-50-no-exam/717946)
**Author:** [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legit-life-insurance-over-50-no-exam/717946 "2015-04-25T14:27:07Z")
I feel like this is a factual question but since I haven’t been able to find a definitive answer with the trusted google, I’m starting to wonder! Please move if applicable, mods. So the AARP sends out a mailer to someon… --- ## [Fitbit Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitbit-questions/718493)
**Author:** [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitbit-questions/718493 "2015-04-25T04:20:47Z")
Does the Fitbit pick up bicycle motion? What about motion on an elliptical machine? --- ## [Is my explanation of the relativity of time accurate enough for a 9 year old?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-explanation-of-the-relativity-of-time-accurate-enough-for-a-9-year-old/718431)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-explanation-of-the-relativity-of-time-accurate-enough-for-a-9-year-old/718431 "2015-04-25T03:38:32Z")
My 9 year old is becoming interested in relativity, and he’s been asking me questions like how time moves more slowly (relative to a stationary observer) depending on how fast one is traveling. As in the well-known theor… --- ## [I wonder how the Armenian Genocide translates into Turkish?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-the-armenian-genocide-translates-into-turkish/718435)
**Author:** [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-the-armenian-genocide-translates-into-turkish/718435 "2015-04-25T03:36:46Z")
Hi I wonder how the Armenian Genocide translates into Turkish? I couldn’t find a Turkish translation for it. I couldn’t verify how Turks blog about this topic. It’s probably forbidden to discuss it publicly/in the media… --- ## [Has there ever been a serious threat agains a former President?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-serious-threat-agains-a-former-president/718351)
**Author:** [@bizerta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizerta)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-serious-threat-agains-a-former-president/718351 "2015-04-25T00:47:07Z")
Prompted by news that Bush#41’s security system was inoperative for several months… Four U.S. Presidents have been shot and killed while in office. In my lifetime, Ford & Reagan have come close (have there been other s… --- ## [SPAM Problem - Help!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-problem-help/718477)
**Author:** [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-problem-help/718477 "2015-04-24T21:57:47Z")
I’ve been getting inundated, sometimes 100 a day, from what appears to be one source. The subject matter could be anything from health insurance to Asian women. The sender’s email is rather long but always ends with “.… --- ## [Drug Holidays?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-holidays/718325)
**Author:** [@jezzaOZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jezzaOZ)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-holidays/718325 "2015-04-24T21:49:38Z")
I’ve got a bunch of prescription drugs I take daily. Some I know it pretty quickly when I don’t take them - Metoprolol and Esomeprazole. Others seem to be more long term ‘lifestyle’ drugs - Rosuvastatin, Telmisartan, … --- ## [yellow tinted windows on car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319)
**Author:** [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319 "2015-04-24T18:35:32Z")
At my work, there is a car with distinctively yellow window tinting. I can’t see this as being as effective as the darker tinting with regards to blocking the sun. What is the point of the yellow? --- ## [I'm American, I want to tour Cuba](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-american-i-want-to-tour-cuba/718160)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-american-i-want-to-tour-cuba/718160 "2015-04-24T18:05:20Z")
I’ve been to Myanmar, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bosnia Herzegovina. There is nothing about Cuba that worries me in the slightest. In all my travels the nation most difficult to get into is my own. I am worried about … --- ## [Mobile/Cell Phone - ISAs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mobile-cell-phone-isas/718451)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mobile-cell-phone-isas/718451 "2015-04-24T17:41:43Z")
Here’s vague question for you: In the context of mobile phones, what does ISA stand for? --- ## [Are certain people's teeth more inclined to get food stuck in them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-certain-peoples-teeth-more-inclined-to-get-food-stuck-in-them/718396)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-certain-peoples-teeth-more-inclined-to-get-food-stuck-in-them/718396 "2015-04-24T17:06:52Z")
I swear I can’t eat a meal without having a piece of pepper or something else stuck between two teeth. Any two. Sometimes many two. Other people, it seems, could eat Oreo cookies with minced spinach by the handful and i… --- ## [Hanging Upside Down- In and Out of the Womb](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hanging-upside-down-in-and-out-of-the-womb/718270)
**Author:** [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hanging-upside-down-in-and-out-of-the-womb/718270 "2015-04-24T16:47:29Z")
Weird topic that came up during weekend pizza. According to several news stories, hanging upside down for a long period of time can kill a person. The reasons I’ve read is that the blood vessels and heart are fighting ag… --- ## [Explain this statistical statement (article on marriage rates)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-statistical-statement-article-on-marriage-rates/718211)
**Author:** [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-statistical-statement-article-on-marriage-rates/718211 "2015-04-24T13:28:10Z")
So, I’m reading this article on marriage rates and inequality, and I came across the following statement: I don’t get it. How can couples in a given population have longer marriages than those outside if the population… --- ## [RCA jacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rca-jacks/718039)
**Author:** [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rca-jacks/718039 "2015-04-24T12:54:04Z")
I was looking at the back of my TV yesterday. It’s an old CRT-type TV and I noticed there are RCA output jacks back there. And I started wondering: output to where? I suppose the audio could be sent on to external speake… --- ## [I don't understand the extreme disparities between pharmacies for the same medication.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-the-extreme-disparities-between-pharmacies-for-the-same-medication/718247)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-understand-the-extreme-disparities-between-pharmacies-for-the-same-medication/718247 "2015-04-24T12:43:41Z")
Ok, I take a “cocktail” of three medications that I have to take twice a day, in order to prevent migraine. One of these drugs is a beta-blocker, nadolol. Typically, according to the Rite Aid I’ve been using for years,… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=1125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/factual-questions/9.md?page=1127)