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Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 5, 2021
We know the photograph of the Georgia senator is real.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Dec. 29, 2020
The man who played Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on the hit sci-fi series may have made it to space ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 12, 2020
Oh chemistree, oh chemistree, how organic are your branches?
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 11, 2020
A viral picture of a roomful of tablets alluded to the widespread emotional devastation caused b ...
Written by: Jessica Lee
Dec. 10, 2020
Geographic coordinates in a 10-second video online have fans speculating about a possible GTA 6.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 9, 2020
Rumors about the royal family are a dime a dozen.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 2, 2020
Conspiracy theorists claimed the "ice ship" seen on Google Maps was linked to Nazis or was being ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 16, 2020
Crowd sizes are notoriously difficult to estimate, but let's take a look.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Nov. 9, 2020
Internet sleuths think the president-elect is trolling Trump with a “We Just Did” hat.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2020
"If you cheat [at golf], you will be the loser, because you are cheating yourself," the actor on ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 6, 2020
Widely shared social media posts, based on news reports, accused the former New Jersey governor ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 10, 2020
A non-peer reviewed paper took off on the internet ... and then came the critics.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 31, 2020
A video of a fight in Kenosha, Wisconsin, supposedly shows the 17-year-old accused of killing tw ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 18, 2020
Fake driver’s licenses grabbed by customs officials since early 2020 became subjects of voting-r ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 6, 2020
The pandemic response team led by Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, report ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 5, 2020
Plenty of outrage, but very little evidence, surrounded a widely shared meme in the summer of 2020.
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 31, 2020
The premise of this question is inherently flawed.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 31, 2020
A non-peer reviewed study suggested that height may influence a person's likelihood to become in ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the production of a number of food and beverage products in 2020.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 15, 2020
Controversy surrounded an incident at a burger restaurant in Daphne, Alabama, in July 2020.
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