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Written by: David Mikkelson
June 18, 2001
Did a fatherless child named Robby learn to play the piano before being killed in the Oklahoma C ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 14, 2001
Old rumor holds that Canada's Hudson's Bay Co. is required to make annual payments of animal pel ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 14, 2001
"In a bizarre turn, one that underscores the anxiety and paranoia of his last days, Walt made a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 10, 2001
Did comedian George Carlin author a piece about his being a 'Bad American'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 5, 2001
Is the U.S. flag pictured flying over Parliament on Canadian currency?
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 19, 2001
Is pumpernickel bread named after a horse? Does it translate to 'devil's fart'? So many breadcru ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 19, 2001
The cut of steak known as "sirloin" is not so named because an English king once knighted a piec ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 8, 2001
A girl's unusual medical condition supposedly led to the discovery that the boy she'd been intim ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 28, 2001
"I can hear you now — John who?"
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 26, 2001
The English word 'news' is said to derive from an acronym formed from the words 'north,' east,' ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 25, 2001
"You'd get a blank look at McDonald's, too, if you asked for a slice of meat between two discs o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 22, 2001
One of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the internet.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 9, 2001
Rumor holds that the use of cellular phones poses a danger of touching off explosions at gas sta ...
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
April 6, 2001
Long-standing rumor holds that actress Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledged in an interview that she wa ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 31, 2001
What it all came down to was that President Bush became the scapegoat for an economic recession.
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 29, 2001
A 1970s celebrity rumor played on the not widely known personal lives of its two targets.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 29, 2001
Was the term 'hot dog' coined by a sports cartoonist who couldn't spell 'dachshund'?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 26, 2001
Nylon stockings hit the market in 1939, after being introduced at the New York World's Fair.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 23, 2001
Some myths are too deeply cherished to be displaced by mere fact.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 19, 2001
A widely circulated essay has been attributed to Carlin, the Dalai Lama, an unnamed Columbine Hi ...
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