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What to know about A pizza-sized ocean predator and a tribe are trying to protect each other. Here's how

A pizza-sized ocean predator and a tribe are trying to protect each other.

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What happened

A pizza-sized ocean predator and a tribe are trying to protect each other.

Why it matters

Here's how On a spring morning so blustery that the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory, a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington, just east of the San Juan Islands.

Common ground

A team of divers crammed into the cabin as the small craft …

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “domestic felines were parachuted into villages to control a growing pest problem in Borneo”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm 'Operation Cat Drop' involved the Royal Air Force parachuting cats into Borneo (Sarawak) in 1960 to control a rat/pest problem.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since early in the history of flight, non-human animals have been dropped from heights with the benefit of parachutes. Early on, animals were used as test subjects for parachutes and as entertainment.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachuting_animals
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Konfrontasi, also known as the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation or Borneo confrontation, was an armed conflict from 1963 to 1966 that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konfrontasi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Cat Drop is the name given to the delivery of cats, equipment and supplies by the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force to remote regions of the then-British colony of Sarawak (today part of Mala…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cat_Drop
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Claim 2: “a Samish Indian Nation research boat, called the Chinook (Yómech), set out from Anacortes, Washington”
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Two independent cross-references from Flipboard explicitly confirm that a Samish Indian Nation research boat called the Chinook (Yómech) set out from Anacortes, Washington.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of Indian reservations and other tribal homelands in the United States. In Canada, the Indian reserve is a similar institution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Quinault Indian Nation ( or ; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cow…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinault_Indian_Nation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samish (Xws7ámeshqen, IPA: [xʷsʔ'e.məʃ.qen]) is a dialect of the North Straits Salish dialect continuum spoken by the Indigenous Samish people of the Pacific Northwest. Samish is traditionally referre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samish_dialect
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Claim 3: “Anacortes, Washington, [is] just east of the San Juan Islands”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and travel guides, confirm Anacortes is the mainland gateway to the San Juan Islands and is located on Fidalgo Island, which is geographically east of the archipelago.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anacortes ( AN-ə-KOR-təs) is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The name "Anacortes" is an adaptation of the name of Anne Curtis Bowman, who was the wife of early Fidalgo Island settl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacortes,_Washington
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Anacortes–San Juan Islands ferry is a system of ferry routes operated by Washington State Ferries in the United States. The routes serve Anacortes, Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, San Jua…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacortes–San_Juan_Islands_fer…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The San Juan Islands are part of an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Islands
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Claim 4: “the National Weather Service issued a small craft advisory”
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While the National Weather Service is a real agency (confirmed by Wikipedia), the provided evidence contains no information regarding a specific small craft advisory issued on the date or morning described in the text. The search results for this claim are irrelevant (Reddit threads about Pittsburgh and Kroger).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related produc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, sometimes referred to as the Katrina Doomsday Warning, was a particularly dire warning issued by the lo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Weather Underground is an American commercial weather service providing real-time weather information over the Internet. It provides weather reports for most major cities around the world on its websi…
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Claim 5: “Knee pain is an incredibly common complaint as people age, affecting approximately 25% of adults”
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Two independent web sources (Oman Observer and a Physical Therapist's Guide) explicitly state that knee pain affects approximately 25% of adults.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Approximately Infinite Universe is the third solo album by Yoko Ono, released in early 1973 on Apple Records. A double album, it represents a departure from the experimental avant garde rock of her fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In computational learning theory, probably approximately correct (PAC) learning is a framework for mathematical analysis of machine learning. It was proposed in 1984 by Leslie Valiant. In this framewo…
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