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).
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 23, 2007
Changes to an exhibit at the Washington Monument temporarily made the phrase 'Laus Deo' non-view ...
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Nov. 19, 2007
Does playing a word definition game at FreeRice.com result in food being donated to the needy?
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Nov. 17, 2007
Was Gene Simmons found dead in his house in November 2007?
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Nov. 14, 2007
Did a 2007 Lowe's holiday catalog advertise Christmas trees as 'family trees'?
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Nov. 9, 2007
Photograph shows U.S. soldiers forming a giant Statue of Liberty figure.
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Nov. 6, 2007
Will New York be embedding strips in vehicle registration stickers in order to catch speeders?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 5, 2007 (Updated: Nov. 20, 2017)
Can Americans send holiday cards to service members and veterans through a Red Cross-sponsored p ...
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Nov. 5, 2007
Walter Reed Hospital no longer accepts Christmas cards addressed to 'A Recovering American Soldi ...
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Nov. 1, 2007
Transcript purports to reproduce Michael Richards' defense speech in court after he made racist ...
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Nov. 1, 2007
An amusing story holds that a group of former General Motors workers furtively produced 1957 Che ...
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Oct. 31, 2007
Singer Cass Elliot reportedly experienced a three-note increase in her vocal range after sufferi ...
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Oct. 31, 2007
Snopes recounts the tragic account of a spectator at a 1979 football game who was killed by a fl ...
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Oct. 30, 2007
Information about the 'FTC/DOJ/DOT Complaint' virus.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 30, 2007
Can you get a $50 Applebee's gift certificate for forwarding an e-mail message?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 30, 2007
E-mail provides transcript of a TV interview with an illegal immigrant from Mexico?
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Oct. 29, 2007
With this rumor, a bulletin warns of a purported new drug called Jenkem, which is said to be mad ...
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Oct. 29, 2007
An episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' was rejected by a sponsor and went unaired for being ' ...
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Oct. 27, 2007
Photograph shows a rattlesnake killed in Georgia?
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Oct. 26, 2007 (Updated: Aug. 26, 2020)
A decade-old brouhaha over a photograph that shows Barack Obama not placing his hand over his he ...
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Oct. 24, 2007
Video demonstrates that 6-volt lantern batteries contain 32 AA batteries.
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