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
Dec. 23, 2002
Man is outraged because airport security personnel touch his pregnant wife's breasts.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 22, 2002
Were Texas post offices required to remove posters bearing the words "In God We Trust" from thei ...
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Dec. 15, 2002
"Anyone who has listened to Limbaugh's program can imagine the dripping scorn he would bring to ...
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Dec. 15, 2002
Are toy retailers offering a 'Forward Command Post' military playset for youngsters?
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Dec. 12, 2002
Will Excedrin donate money to the Toys for Tots program for each visitor to their web site?
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Dec. 8, 2002
Was the larva of a human botfly was removed from a child's eye?
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Dec. 6, 2002
Dollar goes missing in motel transaction? No, just a deceptively-worded puzzle.
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Dec. 6, 2002
A U.S. "Forever" postage stamp does commemorate two Islamic holidays, but it has nothing to do w ...
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Dec. 4, 2002
Photograph shows a formation of jets spelling out 'USA' over Randolph AFB.
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Dec. 2, 2002
Did rocker Joan Jett send an angry letter to Rolling Stone to complain about their 'Women in Roc ...
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Dec. 1, 2002
Letter from airline pilot describes a flight on which the remains of a fallen U.S. soldier were ...
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Nov. 29, 2002 (Updated: Dec. 17, 2021)
Announcement says you've won a lottery you don't remember entering.
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Nov. 25, 2002
Is the San Diego Wild Animal Park's monorail named after a crude acronym?
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Nov. 24, 2002
Siblings are coincidentally killed in related automobile accidents.
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Nov. 23, 2002
Does citing 'code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act' protect web site operators from prosec ...
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Nov. 22, 2002
Did Continental Airlines CEO Gordon Bethune throw a passenger off an airplane for being rude to ...
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Nov. 20, 2002 (Updated: Aug. 17, 2022)
As one rumor goes, golfers established the number because a standard bottle of Scotch contains 1 ...
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Nov. 20, 2002
"A customer in an international hamburger chain lost his appetite after discovering the restaura ...
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Nov. 19, 2002
Did a Saint Xavier University professor send a scathing, condemnatory message to an Air Force Ac ...
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Nov. 17, 2002
"In his zeal to have this sharply defined nose, he's had so many things done, the tissue is no l ...
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