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A poorly done deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking civilians to lay down their arms to the Russian military was circulated on social media in March 2022. In addition to getting some views on social media, a summary of this video was also broadcast on a Ukrainian news station after it was reportedly hacked. The running text at the bottom of this broadcast mentions the me
A brazen drugstore shoplifting incident in San Francisco was the result of some kind of "no arrest" policy or state Proposition 47. In early March 2020, a number of social media users posted a video of a genuine shoplifting incident in San Francisco, California, along with commentary that the incident was evidence of "radical left" leadership that led to lenient policies that were responsible for
On Nov. 4, 2020, as several states continued to count votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a rumor went viral on social media holding that Wisconsin had counted more votes (3,239,920) than it had registered voters (3,129,000). On Twitter, one user claimed that this was clear evidence of fraud: The claim made in this tweet is false. Wisconsin has not counted more votes than it has register
Claim: A flavor of ice cream being transported affects a car's performance: every time vanilla is the driver's choice, the car stalls. This is a weird but true story ... A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors: This is the second time I have written you, and I don't blame you for not answering me, because I kind of sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a traditi
Meteorologist Dan Skoff lent credence to the claim when he reposted the video on Facebook, along with the following message: This is crazy! One of the most amazing things I've ever seen with lightning. Almost doesn't look real! If you aren't terrified of lightning in a swimming pool, you will be now! This video, however, does not actually show a bolt of lightning striking a river. When the video i
What's True In accordance with a recommendation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Japanese officials are considering diluting contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant to a level of radioactivity regarded as safe, then dumping it into the ocean. In May and June 2017, an assortment of web sites that share a history of posting unreliable information
In December 2016, a story that three brothers in Limpopo, South Africa, were arrested for raping a crocodile that was attacking their livestock was widely spread on social media: Four brothers and their cousins from Limpopo have been arrested after they captured a crocodile which had been eating their livestock and allegedly gang-raped it for days. Reports are that the farmers(names withheld pendi
In mid-October 2015, a claim began appearing online holding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had supposedly proclaimed "Republicans are the dumbest group of voters" during a 1998 interview with People magazine: Despite People's comprehensive online content archive, we found no interview or profile on Donald Trump in 1998 (or any other time) that quoted his saying anything that e
In October 2016, viral entertainment web sites such as Yikes.com published articles positing that two burglars had been sodomized for five straight days after they broke into the house of a "notorious gay sex predator" named Harry Harrington: Two burglars got more than they bargained for recently after picking the wrong house to break into. Garfield Morgan, 54, and his 36 year old accomplice frien
The pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 reappeared in Taiwan two years after the plane disappeared. On 10 February 2016, the web site World News Daily Report published an article reporting that Ahmad Shah, the pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (which disappeared without a trace on 8 March 2014), had been found alive in a Taipei, Taiwan, hospital: The pilot of the infamous flight MH37
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs left behind a deathbed essay about how the "non-stop pursuit of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me." In November 2015, a rumor began circulating on social media that when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away at age 56 in 2011, he delivered a speech or left behind a deathbed essay about the meaning of life. One of the earliest iterations
In March 2014, the now-defunct Newshound web site published an article positing that a woman named Gemma Sheridan, who was lost in a storm in 2007 and had spent seven years on a deserted island, was finally rescued when the SOS sign she made on a beach was picked up by and spotted in images captured by Google Earth: My hope was that perhaps a plane might fly over and see [my SOS sign], but in all
Image shows radioactive seepage spreading across the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima nuclear plant. The massive (8.9) Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 resulted in a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear disaster since the catastrophic accident at the C
Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who passed away at the age of 87 in 2009, was a prominent figure in the field of child psychiatry who during the 1950s and 60s conducted medical studies of children with developmental problems, including some of the first rigorous studies of autism and attention deficit disorder. As described by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dr. Eisenberg "transformed child psychiatry by a
MARRIAGE When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes. Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, wh
That all of the following tales are likely apocryphal doesn't lessen our enjoyment of them. It's a rare traveler indeed who hasn't encountered some haughty fellow passenger with an inflated sense of entitlement who thinks his every desire should be accommodated (no matter how unreasonable that desire might be), and it's an even rarer individual who hasn't been seated on a flight next to someone he
A woman who advertised on Craigslist for a rich husband received advice from a potential life partner about 'depreciating assets.' In October 2007, a purported Craigslist exchange began landing in the snopes.com inbox. In the tradition of the Claire Swire embarrassment of 2000, the Peter Chung scandals of 2001, and the Jacqueline Kim infamy of 2002 came this entry in the Internet's ongoing showcas
[Collected via e-mail, 2002] I think it is about time people realised the origin of all those ridiculous "baby on board" signs (and such inevitable copy-cat idiocies as "mother-in-law in boot" and "rottweiler on board"). There was a tragic start to those signs. Some years ago, there was a car crash in Canada. The police located adult and child members of a family trapped in the crashed car, rescue
Does a 'Triangle of Life' article provide good advice about earthquake safety? Critical Earthquake Safety Information Interesting perspective. Please read this and pass it on — it could save your life!! * * * * EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE "TRIANGLE OF LIFE", Edited by Larry Linn for MAA Safety Committee brief on 4/13/04. My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager
Text reproduces newspaper columnist's list of '45 lessons life taught me'? Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in
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Photographs show the figure of an astronaut carved into the wall of a 12th century Spanish cathedral. Erich von Däniken's 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? posited that elements of the religions and technologies developed by some of Earth's oldest civilizations were actually the products of extraterrestrial visitations by space travelers whom those ancient Earthlings welcomed as gods. Among the type
The latest fact checks and original reporting from Snopes' editorial team. Nietzsche Said You're a 'Hero' If You Crush a Cockroach, 'Villain' If You Crush a Butterfly? Written by:
This list of "Rules Kids Won't Learn in School" didn't originate with former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. (It's often cited on the Internet as having come from his book Business @ The Speed of Thought, but it didn't.) Why it has frequently been attributed to him is a mystery to us, as it doesn't sound at all like something he would write. Possibly it's because the item that typically ends the Interne
Claim: Photographs show wild bears posing with humans on the grounds around an Alaska cottage. Status: True. Example: [Collected via e-mail, June, 2007] Comment: I found a feature on this guy in one of the Anchorage Newspapers. He is retired and has been FEEDING bears in his cottage's back yard for over 25 years. The bears just come and hang out and he believes them to be his friends. WOW, g
Dumb luck - ALMOST a Darwin Award winner This is a case of photographer photographs photographer. The following photographs were taken by photographer Hans van de Vorst at the Grand Canyon, Arizona. The descriptions are his own. The identity of the photographer IN the photos is unknown. I was simply stunned seeing this guy standing on this solitary rock IN the Grand Canyon. The canyon's depth is 9
Among the pantheon of characters commonly associated with the Christmas season (both the religious holiday and the secular wintertime celebrations), the beloved persona of Santa Claus is somewhat distinctive in that his appearance is neither one that has been solidified through centuries of religious tradition nor one that sprang fully-formed from the imagination of a modern-day writer or artist.
Origin Although we can see a tremendous amount of variety in the plant and animal life all around us, both within and between species, many of us still find extremes in variety among human beings somewhat disconcerting. While an extraordinarily large dog or a cat with an unusually long tail may be regarded as nothing more than a momentarily interesting curiosity or a source of amusement, people wh
Claim: Photographs show shopping bags adorned with clever artwork. Status: True. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006] Origins: Retailers long ago learned the value of promoting themselves by ensuring that the bags they gave out to customers to take purchases home had their store's name and logo emblazoned on them. Likewise, manufacturers have caught on to the value of buying advertising spa
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