David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
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Feb. 16, 2022
We compiled some Presidents Day factoids from the Snopes archives.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 4, 2021
Hatcher was one of the "stunt men" on the bench of the 1988 championship Dodgers team.
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July 22, 2021
Some social media commenters asserted the joke was a well-known one at UNT.
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July 21, 2021
"I will not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present," the musician ...
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July 18, 2021
Cake ATMs: For when you just can't wait for regular banking hours to make a cake withdrawal.
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July 16, 2021
Sometimes, it's difficult to appreciate all the details in a work of art until they're pointed o ...
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July 15, 2021
"DiGiorno goes great with porno" is probably not what the company had in mind.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 14, 2021 (Updated: July 15, 2021)
The legacy of former Louisiana State University President Troy Middleton is clouded with accusat ...
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July 12, 2021
True diversity does not issue from the output of a digital editing program.
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July 1, 2021
If you don't know there are supposed to be limitations on what you can do, perhaps you won't be ...
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June 29, 2021
Sometimes all the news doesn't fit because it's too small.
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June 27, 2021
Extreme heat waves are not to be taken lightly, even if many photographs purporting to show thei ...
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June 26, 2021
"Absolutely show your boobs when you go to Disney World if you want a free shirt," a park guest ...
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June 25, 2021
The birth years of cartoon characters are subject to some speculation, but 2022 is a sound estim ...
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June 24, 2021
A notorious radio flub became even more infamous through an exaggerated "re-creation" of it long ...
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June 23, 2021
The antivirus software entrepreneur has in recent years embarked on a string of eccentric and so ...
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June 23, 2021
This puzzling English word has been annoying and confusing people since the early 1500s.
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June 22, 2021
"I recommend bonus," indeed.
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June 22, 2021
Legend holds that no one is ever declared dead while on Disney theme park property.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 22, 2021
You just can't keep a good cat down, even when it comes to crawling under extremely narrow gaps.
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