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
April 20, 1997
Medical school student discovers cadaver assigned to her for dissection is body of her relative
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April 20, 1997
Professor demonstrates diabetes test by dipping his finger in flask of urine and licking it.
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April 20, 1997
Coed who remains in dorms over holidays discovers her roommate has been murdered.
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April 19, 1997
Student working on thesis spreads birdseed on school football field every day.
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April 19, 1997
Students purportedly used conditioning techniques to influence psychology instructor into lectur ...
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April 19, 1997
Instructor enters the classroom through the transom to spring pop quiz on his class.
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April 19, 1997
Unprepared student tackles essay question by answering completely different question instead.
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April 18, 1997
Student told he can use 'anything he can carry' on an exam carries a grad student to class.
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April 17, 1997
Was an actor disguised as a beggar used to test divinity students' compassion?
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April 6, 1997
Do women flash their breasts at the camera in Disneyland's Splash Mountain?
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April 4, 1997
Did a sheriff attempt to extort sexual favors from an underage girl, only to discover that she's ...
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April 2, 1997
Biology student's cheek scraping reveals presence of sperm cell.
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March 31, 1997
Naked woman invites her husband to 'come and get it' in front of surprise party guests.
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March 29, 1997
Apocryphal historical legend holds that Russian empress Catherine the Great died attempting to e ...
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Feb. 9, 1997
Soupy Sales was legendary for sneaking off-color humor into his children's TV show. But did he ...
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Dec. 30, 1996
Viewers claim that clouds of dust form the word S-E-X in the Disney animated film 'The Lion King.'
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Dec. 28, 1996
It's hardly surprising an entertainment industry giant would object to unauthorized commercial u ...
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Dec. 12, 1996
Details about Disneyland's once-secretive Club 33 have since gained widespread notice, but acces ...
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Dec. 3, 1996
A student mistook examples of unsolved math problems for a homework assignment and solved them.
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Dec. 1, 1996
Can CD sound quality be improved with green marking pens?
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