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LSD

Are You Deemed Legally Insane If You've Taken LSD Seven Times?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

July 9, 2005

Determinations on whether or not to commit a person are based on the subject's current behavior ...

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Is the CPR Mannequin Modeled After the Inventor's Deceased Daughter?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

June 21, 2005

Many CPR students have been taught to check if a patient is unconscious by gently shaking the do ...

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Parents' Nightmare

Written by: David Mikkelson

June 11, 2005

An issue of 'Parents' magazine displaying unfortunate cover placement is just an illustrative mo ...

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Ku Klux Klan in costumes burning a cross

Does This Photograph Show a KKK Member Treated by Black Hospital Staff?

Written by: David Mikkelson

June 7, 2005

A photograph capturing a KKK member being treated by an all-black emergency room staff was part ...

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The Young Family

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 5, 2005

Photographs of a rare, recently discovered trans-species of human-dog hybrid are actually pictur ...

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Did Al Gore Say 'I Invented the Internet'?

Written by: David Mikkelson

May 5, 2005

Despite decades of media mirth-making about the supposed statement, former vice president Al Gor ...

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Does Eating Carrots Improve Your Vision?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

April 21, 2005

Do our eyes deceive us? This common piece of folk wisdom actually originated with the British ai ...

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'Our Gang' Curse

Written by: David Mikkelson

April 19, 2005

Are actors from the 'Our Gang' series the victims of a curse causing them to die unexpectedly young?

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holy smoke

Etymology of 'Holy Smoke'

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

April 19, 2005

Does the exclamation "holy smoke" derive from the burning of the ballots used to elect a Pope?

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Are Rapists Using Lost Children to Lure Victims?

Written by: Snopes Staff

April 18, 2005

Warnings that rapists are employing children pretending to be lost in order to lure victims to t ...

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amityville horror flies

Was 'Amityville Horror' Based on a True Story?

Written by: Snopes Staff

April 15, 2005

"I remember going by that house and how scary it was."

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Sagging Pants

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

April 14, 2005

Was the fashion of sagging one's pants born of a prison mode of signaling sexual availability?

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Was the Poem 'Slow Dance' Written by a Terminally Ill Girl?

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 26, 2005

This bit of doggerel was penned by an adult male child psychologist, not a terminally ill girl

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Amy Bruce Cancer Appeal

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 26, 2005

A 7-year-old girl named Amy Bruce is not dying of lung cancer and a brain tumor and didn't write ...

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Twinkies wedding cake

Are These Photos from a 'Hillbilly Wedding'?

Written by: David Mikkelson

March 2, 2005

Who wouldn't want their wedding cake to be catered by Hostess?

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Was Ciara Born a Man?

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

Feb. 23, 2005

Rumor holds that popular singer Ciara was born male and discussed her childhood transition to fe ...

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Gitmo Detainees and the LARK Program

Written by: Barbara Mikkelson

Feb. 14, 2005

A letter describing a LARK program under which Gitmo detainees will be housed with liberals who ...

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Volkswagen Polo 'Terrorist' Commercial

Written by: David Mikkelson

Jan. 22, 2005

A viral ad featuring the Volkswagen Polo automobile and a suicide bomber was not created at the ...

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Was a Chinese Restaurant in Atlanta Caught With Shipments of Rat Meat?

Written by: David Mikkelson

Jan. 13, 2005

It's the same long-running hoax with a rodent twist.

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Cash Back Scam

Written by: David Mikkelson

Dec. 2, 2004

Can store cashiers steal from customers by secretly initiating cash back requests and then pocke ...

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