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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/CH4R4F on 2024-09-27 22:37:19+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” it is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion;