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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June 22, 2021
What's worse than a dead body in your home? The possible remnants of a long-dead body in your home.
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June 21, 2021
Not all the ghosts at Disneyland are to be found within the confines of the Haunted Mansion.
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June 21, 2021
A strawberries and cream social media post from Doritos may be more about tennis than tortilla c ...
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June 15, 2021
Suffragist Alice Duer Miller penned "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" in 1914. Her logic is stil ...
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June 15, 2021
Similarities abound, but not exactly in the fashion outlined in a popular meme.
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June 15, 2021
Which one of the parties ultimately won the princess they were fighting over remains unknown.
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June 14, 2021 (Updated: July 21, 2021)
Lawmaker: "I believe the pledge is something that can bring all Americans together, regardless o ...
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June 11, 2021
Sometimes, a bottle of milk is just a mouse's favorite treat.
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June 11, 2021
The etymological explanation for the name of this classic combination of melted cheese and toast ...
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June 11, 2021
Once upon a time, opium, caffeine, iodine, and morphine were recommended treatments for the resp ...
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June 10, 2021
Piles of hundreds of used razor blades are sometimes found in older homes during remodeling. Her ...
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June 9, 2021
Advanced physics textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity.
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June 9, 2021
Run an annoying ad campaign, and you risk someone's making your ads even more annoying.
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June 9, 2021
Sometimes a real image is even funnier than a photoshopped version of it.
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June 8, 2021
A purported kid's "book report" on U.S. President John F. Kennedy precociously relates little mo ...
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June 8, 2021
A 30-year-old mother dressed up as her daughter and attended nearly a full day of classes in a T ...
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June 8, 2021
Three men were lucky to escape without serious injury when the driver of a huge mining haul truc ...
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June 7, 2021
Back in the day when a 4-ounce, all-beef patty hamburger was a revolutionary new menu item.
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June 7, 2021
Do not attribute to baseball feuds what can be explained by drugs.
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June 5, 2021
The unusual-looking Leo is a royal lion from the 18th century, even if we don’t know much more a ...
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