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Featured on Snopes today: A "prophetic" verse allegedly written by Nostradamus provokes skepticism online, a free lunch offer for school kids from McDonald's goes viral, and more.

by Snopes Staff, March 20, 2020



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Did you hear Nostradamus predicted the COVID-19 pandemic more than 400 years before it happened?

"There will be a twin year (2020) from which will arise a queen (corona) who will come from the east (China)," the famed French astrologer supposedly wrote in 1551.

As soon as we saw memes quoting the passage, we headed straight for a copy of “Les Prophéties,” Nostradamus’s book of “prophecies,” to see if it’s really there. David Mikkelson reports.


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