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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Feb. 24, 2001 (Updated: Sept. 30, 2022)
According to legend, the Disneyland hearse was originally used to carry the religious leader's b ...
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Feb. 23, 2001
Is the airplane from 'Casablanca' part of 'The Great Movie Ride' at Disney-MGM Studios theme park?
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Feb. 22, 2001
Does a character in the 1948 film 'Key Largo' make a prescient comment about Florida politicians?
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Feb. 22, 2001
Photograph shows airline hangar flooded with soap suds.
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Feb. 21, 2001
A bank employee supposedly furtively amassed a large sum of ill-gotten gains by stealing very sm ...
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Feb. 21, 2001
Was a dockyard worker trapped inside the Titanic's hull?
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Feb. 21, 2001
Man high on drugs slices off pieces of his face and feeds them to his dogs?
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Feb. 16, 2001
"I bet you're going to sell me tickets to the Highway Patrol Ball."
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Feb. 15, 2001
Rumor has it that Groucho Marx made a risqué wisecrack about his cigar to a female 'You Bet Your ...
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Feb. 15, 2001
Is the Brazilian Congress voting on a bill that would reduce the size of the Amazon rain forest ...
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Feb. 13, 2001
Will a rider appended to a Congressional bill require that consumers obtain prescriptions before ...
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Feb. 12, 2001
Did a student turn in an old term paper as his own work, only to discover it was written by his ...
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Feb. 12, 2001
Professor recognizes term paper that has been submitted several times by different students.
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Feb. 11, 2001 (Updated: Aug. 28, 2019)
This is the story of a student who was unable to answer an exam question, so he hatched a scheme ...
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Feb. 10, 2001 (Updated: Aug. 29, 2019)
This story tells of a student who hatched a plan to finish his exam outside of class, only later ...
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Feb. 10, 2001 (Updated: Aug. 29, 2019)
Responding to your college professor with a one-liner might not get you an A on an exam, but it ...
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Feb. 6, 2001 (Updated: Aug. 16, 2022)
In general, we need to take in enough water to replace the amount we lose daily.
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Feb. 5, 2001
Plumber discovers backed-up pipe is clogged with condoms, although the husband doesn't use them.
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Feb. 4, 2001
The frequency of attachment of an urban legend to the largest company or corporation is so commo ...
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Feb. 1, 2001
Did an Iraqi government propaganda broadcaster warn American soldiers that 'Bart Simpson is maki ...
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