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by burfog 2109 days ago
Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for random factual queries. It will even do computation, so you can ask for the number of dietary calories in a cubic lightyear of cream cheese. https://www.wolframalpha.com/

If you are looking more for proven statistics that get suppressed for political reasons, then the now-defunct hatefact site is what you want. It featured over 700 awkward facts, with citations. Archive as one big page: http://archive.is/LRe05 Archive with 1 page per category: http://hatefacts.subvert.pw/hub.html

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thanks so much