Fact Check

Not Necessarily the News

News stories that weren't what they first appeared to be.

Published Aug. 11, 2014

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A Romanian couple named their son 'Yahoo' as a sign of gratitude for their having met over the Internet.


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A man freed himself from an avalanche by drinking beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.


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Women in Germany face the loss of unemployment benefits if they decline to accept work in brothels.


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A mouse set a house on fire after the homeowner threw the rodent into a pile of burning leaves.


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An Oregon girl's message-in-a-bottle was found by a boy in Hawaii.


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An alligator captured in the Chicago River in June 2008 was the first such creature ever found in that body of water.


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A vengeful Polish dentist pulled out all of her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her.


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A Swedish man died after having sex with hornet's nest.


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A man in China has sued his wife for bearing him ugly children.


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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is slated for demolition in early 2015.


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Doctors discovered that a pregnant woman's unborn daughter was also pregnant.


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A death row inmate was released from prison after two execution attempts failed.


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Oprah Winfrey posted bail for 'sexy felon' Jeremy Meeks.


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President Obama has proclaimed August 2014 to be 'International Muslim Awareness Month.'


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Police recently found 17 plastic-wrapped bodies in the Ohio River.


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U.S. schools are requiring children to be implanted with RFID chips in an effort to curb gun violence.


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An Oklahoma City McDonald's was caught with horse meat and human meat in their freezer.


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Police in New Jersey found a body that had lain undisturbed for five years under a motel bed.


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Former president George W. Bush was arrested in Dallas for cocaine possession.


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Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter has cancelled his retirement plans to sign with the Boston Red Sox.


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Actor Russell Johnson of Gilligan's Island fame has been identified as the Zodiac Killer.


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Coca-Cola is recalling millions of bottles of Coke with the name Michael on the label.


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A school of killer whales attacked and killed 16 crewmembers of a Japanese whaling boat.


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A NYPD police officer killed a baby following a breastfeeding dispute with the child's mother.


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Photograph shows a honeymooner taking an underwater selfie moments before he was killed by a shark.


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The artificial sweetener aspartame was originally developed as an ant poison.

David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994.

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