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Four people clinking beer bottles.

Is the U.S. Minimum Legal Drinking Age Being Raised to 25?

Written by: David Mikkelson

June 11, 2014

You're old enough to vote and fight and smoke, but not to drink.

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Charles Manson Granted Parole?

Written by: David Mikkelson

June 5, 2014

Reports that the notorious criminal is being let out of prison are fake news.

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Did Sarah Palin Wonder If Flight 370 'Flew Directly to Heaven'?

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 21, 2014

Sarah Palin supposedly speculated that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have disappeared 'becaus ...

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Giant Sea Spider

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 21, 2014

Photographs purportedly documenting a new species of 'giant sea spider' recently discovered in t ...

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Obama Announces Plans for a Third Term Presidential Run

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 19, 2014

Fake news reports that Barack Obama has announced he is running for yet another term as presiden ...

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Where the World's Unsold Cars Go to Die

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 16, 2014

Photographs do not show thousands and thousands of unsold new cars deteriorating in storage lots.

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Was a Chinese Miner Found Alive After 17 Years Underground?

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 12, 2014

A Chinese coal miner was reportedly discovered alive in an abandoned mine 17 years after he had ...

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Leonardo DiCaprio Cast as MLK in New Film, Will Wear Blackface?

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 16, 2014

Rumor: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be portraying Martin Luther King in an upcoming film.

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Medicare at Age 76

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 14, 2014

Obamacare does not require that patients 76 and older must be admitted to the hospital by their ...

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Smoking Bedbugs to Get High

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 9, 2014

Rumor: Schoolkids are smoking and injecting crushed bedbugs to get high from a hallucinogenic su ...

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Did Justin Bieber Admit to Being Bisexual?

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 7, 2014

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Was a Student's Assignment Rejected Because She Wrote About Jesus?

Written by: Snopes Staff

April 7, 2014

A photograph purportedly documents a school essay rejected because the student chose 'Jesus Chri ...

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Was McDonald's Exposed for Using Human Meat?

Written by: Dan Evon

April 7, 2014

Report holds that an Oklahoma City McDonald's outlet was caught with horse meat and human meat i ...

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Did George Zimmerman Sell a Trayvon Martin Painting for $30,000?

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 6, 2014

Reports that Zimmerman had painted and sold a portrait of Trayvon Martin were fake news.

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Did Vladimir Putin Give an Anti-Islam Speech?

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 3, 2014

A supposed speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin demanding that Muslim immigrants speak Rus ...

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U.S. Military Forced to Observe Ramadan?

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 31, 2014

U.S. troops stationed in Muslim countries are not being ordered to fast and submit to Sharia law ...

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Etymology of 'Cold Turkey'

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson

March 25, 2014

Did the slang phrase for kicking a habit all at once originate with a literal reference to a plu ...

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Google Earth Discovers Woman Trapped on Desert Island for Years?

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 18, 2014

Reports that Google Earth images helped locate a castaway are fake news.

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The Hello Girl

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

March 14, 2014

Did greeting 'Hello' enter the language because it was the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's gi ...

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Do Energy Drinks Contain Bull Semen?

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 14, 2014

Red Bull and other brands of energy drinks employ various stimulating ingredients, but none of t ...

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