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
July 25, 2001
Was the shark that tore the boy's arm off lured to the shore by the boy's uncle, who had been fi ...
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July 23, 2001 (Updated: Jan. 8, 2022)
Burn deaths and injuries result from people trying to retrieve straying pets from boiling hot sp ...
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July 22, 2001
President of Aladdin casino writes response to Michael Moore's letter?
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July 20, 2001
Christopher John Mineo, Jr. - missing child or Internet hoax?
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July 18, 2001
According to a study by the Lovenstein Institute, President Bush has the lowest IQ of all presid ...
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July 17, 2001
Was the Mitsubish Starion supposed to have been the 'Stallion'?
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July 12, 2001
Woman misunderstands gynecologist's examination instructions.
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July 12, 2001
Legend holds that baseball's championship competition is known as the "World Series" because it ...
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July 10, 2001
Can you call a phone number to prevent the four major U.S. credit bureaus from selling your info ...
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July 10, 2001
Man inherits large sum after his friend lied about their identities during a one-night stand.
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July 9, 2001
Can you avoid an upcoming AOL rate increase?
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July 2, 2001
Did Clark Gable precipitate a decline in undershirt sales in 1934?
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June 30, 2001
Bird watchers call to each other, thinking they're attracting a rare bird.
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June 28, 2001
Why would a state ban the hunting of an animal not native to the area?
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June 26, 2001
Rumor holds that the Baltimore Orioles deliberately created a lighting malfunction before a 1997 ...
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June 26, 2001
Burma-Shave was an unusual American success story because its advertising was cherished on an en ...
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June 25, 2001 (Updated: Nov. 27, 2011)
Are bananas from South Africa or Costa Rica infecting consumers with flesh-eating disease?
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June 24, 2001
Rumor has it that the Beatles recorded the songs 'Colliding Circles' and 'Pink Litmus Paper Shir ...
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June 21, 2001
Rumor: For several years, Webster's New International Dictionary mistakenly included an entry fo ...
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