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Written by: David Mikkelson
June 11, 2014
You're old enough to vote and fight and smoke, but not to drink.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 5, 2014
Reports that the notorious criminal is being let out of prison are fake news.
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 21, 2014
Sarah Palin supposedly speculated that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have disappeared 'becaus ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 21, 2014
Photographs purportedly documenting a new species of 'giant sea spider' recently discovered in t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 19, 2014
Fake news reports that Barack Obama has announced he is running for yet another term as presiden ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 16, 2014
Photographs do not show thousands and thousands of unsold new cars deteriorating in storage lots.
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 12, 2014
A Chinese coal miner was reportedly discovered alive in an abandoned mine 17 years after he had ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 16, 2014
Rumor: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be portraying Martin Luther King in an upcoming film.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 14, 2014
Obamacare does not require that patients 76 and older must be admitted to the hospital by their ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 9, 2014
Rumor: Schoolkids are smoking and injecting crushed bedbugs to get high from a hallucinogenic su ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
April 7, 2014
A photograph purportedly documents a school essay rejected because the student chose 'Jesus Chri ...
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 ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 6, 2014
Reports that Zimmerman had painted and sold a portrait of Trayvon Martin were fake news.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 3, 2014
A supposed speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin demanding that Muslim immigrants speak Rus ...
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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March 25, 2014
Did the slang phrase for kicking a habit all at once originate with a literal reference to a plu ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 18, 2014
Reports that Google Earth images helped locate a castaway are fake news.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 14, 2014
Did greeting 'Hello' enter the language because it was the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's gi ...
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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