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
Feb. 11, 2003
In the 1993 declaration given by 13-year-old "J. Chandler" in a lawsuit against Michael Jackson, ...
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Feb. 11, 2003
Was actor Walter Matthau really born 'Walter Matuschanskyayasky'?
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Feb. 10, 2003
Cochineal and its close cousin carmine (also known as carminic acid) are derived from the crushe ...
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Feb. 10, 2003
Shuttle astronaut Rick Husband was a man of religious faith.
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Feb. 9, 2003
People have come up with all sorts of inventive ways of concealing themselves in order to slip a ...
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Feb. 5, 2003
Did Dame Edna advise a reader against learning Spanish?
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Feb. 5, 2003
Photograph taken during the fatal Columbia mission reveal large cracks in the shuttle's wing.
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Feb. 3, 2003
E-mail sent from orbit captures Columbia astronaut Laurel Clark's final words to her family.
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Feb. 3, 2003
Was the same woman scheduled to be on both the Challenger and Columbia shuttle missions?
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Feb. 1, 2003
As one Canadian student illustrated by accident, a combination of the mythos of a historical fig ...
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Jan. 29, 2003
Is entertainer Dave Matthews dead?
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Jan. 27, 2003
Did bags of rice sent to President Eisenhower help dissuade him from launching an attack against ...
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Jan. 26, 2003
An unearthed video clip appears to show a studio-produced 'outtake' of the first manned moon lan ...
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Jan. 26, 2003
A Flag Day collection of legends associated with the Stars & Stripes.
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Jan. 26, 2003
We knew what he meant.
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Jan. 22, 2003
Jacqui Saburido, the victim of a drunk driving accident, sought donations to help with the medic ...
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Jan. 21, 2003
Photo shows clouds forming a strikingly realistic image of a teddy bear.
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Jan. 20, 2003
A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, inste ...
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Jan. 19, 2003
Tim Hortons doesn't secretly add nicotine to their coffee to make it addictive to customers, and ...
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Jan. 18, 2003
Did Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel deliver a stirring speech to his players just before t ...
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