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. 25, 2007
Photographs show black bears cavorting on a backyard playset in Alaska.
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Feb. 24, 2007
Dying newborn saved by her twin sibling's hug?
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Feb. 24, 2007
Woman wins lottery twice after dreaming about the winning combination.
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Feb. 22, 2007
E-mailed list features Dave Barry's '16 Things It Took Me Over 50+ Years to Learn'.
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Feb. 21, 2007
Ant fortuitously retrieves contact lens lost by mountain climber.
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Feb. 21, 2007
Photograph shows tornado that hit Central Florida in February 2007.
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Feb. 20, 2007
Photographs show a lake effect storm approaching Buffalo, New York.
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Feb. 19, 2007
Minnesota bill proposing creation of poet laureate position is written in rhyming verse.
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Feb. 19, 2007
"Just how do you stick a bit in a moose's mouth?"
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Feb. 14, 2007
A list purports that various phone numbers and code sequences purports that hidden features and ...
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Feb. 14, 2007
Does the design of new U.S. dollar coins omit the motto 'In God We Trust'?
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Feb. 13, 2007
Account describes Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy's talk before a 2006 Athletes in Action br ...
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Feb. 12, 2007
Photographs purport to show cats adorned with $15,000 paint jobs.
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Feb. 12, 2007
Photographs show a truck that crashed through a highway barrier and jumped a culvert on the edge ...
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Feb. 7, 2007
Video clip shows a toddler playing with a cobra.
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Feb. 6, 2007
Rumor: Purina's Beneful brand of dog food is causing dogs to fall ill.
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Feb. 6, 2007
Some residence locks are vulnerable to unauthorized entry through the use of 'bump keys.'
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Feb. 5, 2007
Photographs show a pair of albino moose alongside a highway?
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Feb. 3, 2007
Was a game show contestant unable to correctly determine which is larger: an elephant or the moon?
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Jan. 31, 2007
One scene depicts the colorful general shooting the animals to clear the roadway for his troops.
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