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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March 17, 2001
For some of us, the desire to believe we've been let in on a piece of secret knowledge can overp ...
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March 17, 2001
A student under the influence produces a bizarre examination paper.
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March 17, 2001
Cheerleader collapses during game and has several pints of semen pumped from her stomach.
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March 17, 2001
Did a man who die at his desk and remain undiscovered until 5 days later?
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March 11, 2001
Which animals besides humans engage in sex for pleasure?
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March 11, 2001
Drunk driver discovers body of little girl stuck to the front of his car.
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March 11, 2001
The term 'blue laws' historically defined regulations intended to preserve the Sabbath by proscr ...
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March 7, 2001
The U.S. chief executive's residence supposedly obtained its familiar name because it was repain ...
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March 6, 2001
"She couldn't remember her lines, her delivery was amateurish, and the more she rehearsed, the w ...
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March 6, 2001
Did Marines fail to observe the proper protocol in saluting President Clinton all throughout his ...
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March 4, 2001
The extra 'something' that Marilyn possessed doesn't appear to have been a toe.
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March 4, 2001
The cause of swelling in a girl's jaw is determined to be cockroach eggs she ingested from eatin ...
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March 2, 2001
Is no Nobel Prize awarded for mathematics because a mathematician was carrying on an affair with ...
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March 1, 2001
The University of Toronto paying male volunteers $145 each to receive fellatio.
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March 1, 2001
The bare-faced truth about all those Lost Legends at snopes.com
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Feb. 28, 2001 (Updated: Sept. 16, 2022)
The Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety estimates that seat belts have saved 102,115 lives f ...
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Feb. 27, 2001
Did Hillary Clinton support and help free two Black Panthers accused of murder?
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Feb. 26, 2001
Can you make money for the Red Cross by forwarding an e-mail?
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Feb. 25, 2001
Professor notices omission of whale drawing from marine biology term paper resubmitted several t ...
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Feb. 24, 2001
There are barrels of explanations for the unusual name of the game that launched the Mario franc ...
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