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Despite an urban myth that Neiman Marcus charged a woman $250 for a cookie recipe, the company says it never charged for it. In fact, there wasn’t a recipe until the 1990s when the company decided to create one to refute the urban legend.
The rumor has spread that baseball sluggers Sammy Sosa and Jim Thome were forced to leave Hy-Vee without grub for the hunting lodge in suburban Ellisville.
Just days before Britney Spears' fourth studio album In The Zone hits stores on Tuesday, November 18, the singer became the target of a widespread rumor that she had overdosed on drugs and was in a hospital in New York City.
It has been described as the internet's first blood sport and is fast becoming one of the web's favourite pastimes. Fed up with having their inboxes clogged with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising untold riches, the victims are finally hitting back.
Police on removed the corpse of a man believed to have hanged himself at least a year ago after builders and students at Budapest's University of Arts had initially mistaken it for a modern sculpture.
Some Purdue students have not picked up their new ID cards through the school's re-carding project because of a rumor that there is a locator chip inside the IDs so Purdue can track their whereabouts.
It's talked about in police stations and hospitals around the world and has been studied at length. Legend has it the full moon brings out the worst in people.
