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Written by: David Mikkelson
June 6, 2001
Although now fixed in popular culture, the names of some of Santa's reindeer were once subject t ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
June 5, 2001
Is the Eric Clapton song 'Tears in Heaven' about his young son, who died in an accident?
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 24, 2001
What's the story behind infamous Chung e-mail wherein a young trader brags about his sexual conq ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
May 21, 2001
Girl on an amusement park ride is scalped when her hair gets caught in the attraction's machinery?
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 7, 2001
"Commanding Officer, USS SKIPJACK, cannot help but wonder what is being used at Mare Island in p ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 5, 2001
After a Supreme Court decision forced the state of Missouri to allow the KKK to adopt a highway, ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 30, 2001
Rumors about the transgender actress and her role in the James Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only' ha ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 19, 2001
Scandal erupted when children's TV host Soupy Sales asked his young viewers to send him 'little ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 11, 2001
Was a dying child made an honorary fireman in Phoenix?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 21, 2000
The image of a man soaring three miles above Los Angeles in a makeshift "aircraft" has captured ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 20, 2000
A photograph captures a small car impossibly loaded down with hundreds of pounds of lumber and o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 30, 2000
A serviceman's poem describes a soldier's lonely night the evening before Christmas.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 27, 2000
A dog was killed when it bit into a tennis ball booby-trapped with explosives.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 15, 2000
How the wheeled shopping cart came to be...and came to be used for so many purposes.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 10, 2000
The origins and effects of one 1982 pop hit have proved to be more legendary than the song itself.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Nov. 2, 2000
A Toronto lawyer demonstrating the safety of window panes in a skyscraper ironically plunged thr ...
Written by: Snopes Staff Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2000
Pins, needles and razor blades been occasionally been found in trick-or-treaters' loot over the ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Aug. 23, 2000
The state of Michigan once threatened local beavers with a $10,000 per day fine for failing to r ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 23, 2000
A humorous narrative describes FBI agents holed up in a psychiatric hospital attempting to order ...
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