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Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 4, 2000
Cups of instant noodles do not pose a deadly danger to consumers due to the cups' wax linings.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 2, 2000
Legend holds that singer Lauryn Hill said she'd rather die than have white people buy her albums.
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2000
Police have never documented actual cases of people randomly distributing poisoned goodies to ch ...
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
Oct. 30, 2000
Were interstate highways designed to be used as emergency airstrips in case of war?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 19, 2000
What a difference a day makes. But sometimes it makes no difference at all.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Oct. 16, 2000
Drug dealers hand out LSD-laced tattoos of cartoon characters to schoolchildren?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 9, 2000
Urban legends about mutated KFC meat are good for a laugh, but the chain does not use meat deriv ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 8, 2000
Was a young Mel Gibson horribly disfigured in a fight, this becoming the inspiration for the 199 ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 6, 2000
Rumor has it that influential friends helped Al Gore get "special dispensation and a one-way tic ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 2, 2000
Some contemporary celebrities seem to be fond of invoking this "fact."
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 29, 2000
Old political jape holds that Election Day is being split across two separate days.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 25, 2000
It is hard to imagine United States customs looking the other way on this one.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 20, 2000
Old political joke holds that a clueless U.S. government official ordered half the cattle guards ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 17, 2000
Missionary is protected by the miraculous appearance of 26 armed guards.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 12, 2000
Legendary anecdote about a general who finds a good comeback when asked about the wisdom of teac ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 12, 2000
False rumor holds that Phil Collins wrote the song 'In the Air Tonight' after witnessing an inci ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 11, 2000
Online alert warns that someone using the screen name 'DreamWeaverGrey' is luring women to their ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 1, 2000
Ten minutes? Fifteen minutes? Until the scheduled end of class?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 22, 2000
Space race legend claims NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 8, 2000
Did psychologist B.F. Skinner raise his daughter in a 'Skinner box'?
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