AAP FactCheck examined a Facebook post from November 2, 2019 by Tumblr Made Me Do It featuring an image of a spider with wings and a caption beneath it stating, “Scientist discovers winged spider.”

The NSW Food Authority states on its website that most foodborne illness is caused by pathogenic bacteria or viruses in food. Other less common foodborne illness occurs from accidental chemical poisoning and natural contaminants.

Australian federal politicians have access to two pension systems when they retire based on when they were elected to parliament. Those who entered parliament before October 9, 2004 get access to the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Scheme (PCSS) after they retire.

NSW Health lists head louse as a “parasitic insect that can be found on the head, eyebrows and eyelashes of people. Head lice feed on human blood several times a day and lives close to the human scalp, but are not known to spread disease”.

“The claim that the workforce is now excessively casualised is simply not true. The level of casualisation hasn’t changed for about 20 years.”

Head restraints are a regulatory requirement under Australian Design Rules for vehicle standards.

The post features an image of another post, which contains the text. AAP FactCheck could not find the original post. However various versions of the same or similar claims - that the name of the aged pension is to be changed - have been shared by a number of Australian users and pages, including in the comments of posts on politicians and political party pages.

Genetic modification involves altering the genetic material in plants, animals or microorganisms in a way that does not naturally occur normally through mating or reproduction and allows “selected individual genes” to be transferred from one organism to another and inter-species, according to the World Health Organisation.

A series of global protest marches were staged in 2019 to support stronger climate action. In March the School Strike for Climate event saw more than a million people rally while the Global Strike 4 Climate event in September drew millions.

The first photo of Fort Denison was taken prior to 1885, according to the State Library of NSW, which has the original image in its archives. The distinctive tower structure on the island was completed in 1857. The Bureau of Meteorology has sea level reading records dating back to 1914 for Fort Denison.

The “URGENT WARNING” post has previously circulated on social media. In May 2019, news website 10 daily noticed the post trending and labelled its claim as “fake” in a report. The warning post was shared by the page Queensland Through Your Eyes before the content was removed.

A Facebook post shows The Australian Army Badge and claims Facebook thinks military emblems are not appropriate.

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and philosopher who ruled between 161 and 180 AD. He was one of the most prominent Stoic philosophers and is best known for the book Meditations, his personal writings and ideas on the Greek philosophy. Stoicism was a school of thought and ethics that helped one live a virtuous life by surmounting fears and false desires. The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius looks over Rome from Capitoline Hill.

A Facebook post purports to show a Syrian boy sleeping between the graves of his father and mother.

A Facebook post claims to show two pictures of one end of the Great Wall of China taken 80 years apart.

Manoa Drollet, the Tahitian surfer pictured in the image, was surfing the Teahupo’o break on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti when his picture was taken by photographer Tim McKenna on July 28, 2006.

A “Least Religious Countries” map in a Facebook post omits China from the countries shaded red.

Professor Peter Whiteford from the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy told AAP FactCheck the claim “is a longstanding ‘myth’ i.e. there is an element of fact behind it but overall it is not correct”.

AAP FactCheck examined the image and found the original picture dated back to at least March 2012 after conducting a reverse image search.

“Coles and Woolies, they said look we’ll put 10 cents a litre on for the milk and we’ll give it to the dairy farmers. Well I’ve just found out that the dairy farmers get 1.4 cents of that." One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. October 10, 2019.