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Lucille Ball

Did Lucille Ball's Fillings Help Capture Japanese Spies?

Written by: David Mikkelson

July 24, 1999

Was a memorable episode of 'Gilligan's Island' an inadvertent re-creation of what Lucille Ball e ...

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Disneyland Deaths

Written by: David Mikkelson

Sept. 10, 2003

Nine guests have lost their lives on Disneyland attractions.

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Did Baby Food Jars Horrify African Consumers?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Jan. 17, 2001

Understanding where this decades-old tale came from is to see cultural prejudice at work.

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Do You Need Eight Glasses of Water Per Day?

Written by: David Mikkelson

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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General Pershing on How to Stop Islamic Terrorists

Written by: David Mikkelson

Oct. 30, 2001

U.S. General John J. Pershing did not effectively discourage Muslim terrorists in the Philippine ...

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Is This Viral List of 'Four Things You Didn't Know About Martin Luther King, Jr.' True?

Written by: David Mikkelson

July 19, 2003

You probably didn't know most of them because they're not true.

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Did a Nazi Leader Say Convincing People to Support War is 'Simple'?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Oct. 3, 2002

Nazi Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering was one of the highest-ranking Nazis who survived to be ...

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Does Coca-Cola Coax Worms Out of Pork?

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 5, 2007

Pouring Coca-Cola onto a piece of raw pork will not cause worms to come crawling out of the meat.

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NASA's 'Astronaut Pen'

Written by: David Mikkelson

Aug. 22, 2000

Space race legend claims NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would ...

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Beheaded Child on Schoolbus

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

Oct. 11, 2000

Was a little girl hanging out of a school bus window decapitated by a road sign?

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Does No One Ever Die at Disney Parks?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Sept. 6, 2003

Fantasy legend holds that no one is ever declared dead while on Disney theme park property.

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Was a Town in Japan Renamed 'Usa' So Its Products Could Be Labeled 'Made in USA'?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Sept. 25, 2000

It is hard to imagine United States customs looking the other way on this one.

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Tales of black-hearted madmen doling out poisoned Halloween candy to unsuspecting little tykes have been around for decades — they were part of my Halloween experience more than forty years ago.

Poisoned Halloween Candy

Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson

Nov. 1, 2000

Police have never documented actual cases of people randomly distributing poisoned goodies to ch ...

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The Hook

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

Dec. 2, 1998

An escaped killer interrupts a young couple's make-out session.

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Do Orthodox Jews Have Marital Relations Through a Hole in a Sheet?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

April 6, 2000

Let's fact-check that.

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Child Abducts Penguin in Backpack?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

June 19, 2005

Urban legend holds that a child successfully smuggled a penguin out of an amusement park by conc ...

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Does the U.S. Presidential Seal Change in Wartime?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Nov. 4, 2001

History buffs love to pass around this rumor.

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Did Members of Led Zeppelin Pleasure a Groupie with a Mud Shark?

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 19, 2003

Tales of sexual exploits involving groupies and animals are familiar entries in the Led Zeppelin ...

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Etymology of 'Mind your P's and Q's.'

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

June 4, 2010

The etymology of the phrase 'Mind your p's and q's.'

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Did Neil Armstrong Flub His First Words on the Moon?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Jan. 26, 2003

We knew what he meant.

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Dangerous Chemicals in Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

June 22, 2006

Do Mr. Clean Magic Erasers contain dangerous chemicals?

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Oleander Poisoning

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson

Sept. 24, 2003 (Updated: July 30, 2011)

Did a troop of Boy Scouts die after roasting hot dogs on oleander branches?

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Have Women Been Killed by Poisoned Perfume Samples?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

Nov. 3, 2001

A warning from "Glen Eagles" hospital about the deaths of women who sniffed poisoned perfume sam ...

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