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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July 10, 2006
A freighter carrying tapioca nearly sank when a fire in its hold (and the water used to extingui ...
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July 10, 2006
A humorous meme about cargo lost in the Titanic's sinking leading to the creation of the Cinco d ...
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July 9, 2006
What Americans call 'refried beans' are not really beans that have been fried more than once.
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July 7, 2006
A collection of unusual stories we've been queried about.
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July 6, 2006
Letter from U.S. Army lieutenant serving in Iraq criticizes the 'New York Times'.
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July 6, 2006
Campaign manager for various politicians purportedly pays church official to refer to his charge ...
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July 4, 2006
A "fire rainbow," which is an atmospheric phenomenon known as a circumhorizontal arc.
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July 1, 2006
Did Sherlock Holmes ever say, 'Elementary, my dear Watson'?
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July 1, 2006
"Three of our clerks are currently attending counseling from the trouble your husband has caused."
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June 29, 2006
Did José Carreras recover from leukemia with the assistance of a foundation started by Plácido D ...
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June 26, 2006
Pets that are genetically engineered and manufactured to order may be a dream (or nightmare) of ...
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June 26, 2006
Hall of Fame outfielder Mickey Mantle sent a crude response when Yankees officials asked him to ...
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June 26, 2006
Did a Michigan professor send an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country?
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June 22, 2006
Video clip shows a woman being pulled apart at the waist?
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June 21, 2006
Is Merck is offering to donate $1 to cancer research for every ordered pair of 'Make the Connect ...
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June 21, 2006
E-mail warns about a disease known as Inflammatory Breast Cancer
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June 17, 2006
A photograph shows eleven original staff members of Microsoft back in 1978.
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June 16, 2006
Find a nine-letter English word that remains a valid word as each of its letters is successively ...
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June 14, 2006
Reachelle Marie Smith: missing child or Internet hoax?
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June 12, 2006
Information about the 'New Graphic Site' computer virus warning.
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