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Did Robin Williams' Contracts Help the Homeless?

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Snopes Staff
Aug 25, 2014 Comedian Robin Williams was lauded for his charitable initiative towards the homeless in a viral ...
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Did Justin Trudeau Stop Teaching at a Vancouver Private School Under the Cloud of a Sex Scandal?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Oct 9, 2019 Days before Canada's 2019 federal election, rumors emerged about the future prime minister's 200 ...
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Did 'John-John' From 'Sesame Street' End Up On a Sex Offender List?

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Dan Evon
Nov 25, 2019 A 2-year-old who appeared on the children's show in 1971 shares a lot of biographical informatio ...
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Did Franz Kafka Invent Letters from a Missing Doll to Comfort a Little Girl?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Mar 9, 2021 "In the end, love will return in another way," the renowned author of "The Metamorphosis" was qu ...
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Did Biden Fart in Front of the Duchess of Cornwall?

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Dan Evon
Nov 8, 2021 As they say, whoever spread the rumor was the one who laid the boomer.
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Did Ewan McGregor's Brother Use 'Obi-Two' Call Sign in Royal Air Force?

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Dan Evon
Feb 6, 2021 Too perfect this punchline was.
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Is ‘Breaking Bad’ Leaving Netflix in February 2025?

Written by:
Damakant Jayshi
May 8, 2023 According to reports, Netflix has the license for the popular crime series until February 2025.
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Did Lady Gaga’s College Classmates Create Facebook Page Insulting Her?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Apr 30, 2023 It was allegedly titled "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous."
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Did FedEx Fire a Driver Who Refused To Deliver to Pro-Biden Homes?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 27, 2021 Vincent Paterno bragged online about refusing to deliver packages to left-leaning customers. Onl ...
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A picture that claims to show Ronald Reagan in drag.

Is This a Photo of Ronald Reagan in Drag?

Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Apr 7, 2023 The photograph had circulated widely in left-leaning circles online.
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Will Trump Be Handcuffed During His Arraignment on Hush-Money Charges?

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Alex Kasprak
Mar 31, 2023 Experts say it's unlikely, but this is uncharted territory.
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TikTok's logo is on both a phone and in the background of a bigger screen.

Is TikTok Banned in China?

Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Mar 23, 2023 Douyin, China's version of TikTok, is available within the country.
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A tweet and Reddit thread claimed that President Donald Trump signed his signature on a NAFTA agreement in the wrong place by mistake.

Did Trump Sign a 'NAFTA Agreement' in the Wrong Place?

Written by:
Jordan Liles
Feb 15, 2022 A moment from U.S. President Donald Trump's time in the White House resurfaced on Reddit in 2022.
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The word "Unproven" in yellow says over a photo. On the left of the photo stands a white woman wearing a leopard print dress and pink robe, while to the right it says in pink "I dress more provocatively and risque than any drag queen in Tennessee. Lord I hope."

Did Dolly Parton Say This About Drag Queens?

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Mar 14, 2023 She has said before that she would be a drag queen if she hadn't been born a girl.
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Three white people stand near a wall. The two on the right are wearing dresses.

Did Tennessee Ban the Classic Movie 'Some Like It Hot'?

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Mar 9, 2023 The state recently passed a ban on so-called "adult cabaret performances" that feature male or f ...
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War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It's hardly a civilized pursuit. It's amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.

Did Walter Cronkite Say War Is 'a Form of Madness'?

Written by:
David Emery
Mar 3, 2023 Cronkite, a veteran war correspondent and broadcast journalist, was once regarded as "the most t ...
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Albert Einstein.

Did Albert Einstein Say World War IV Will be Fought 'With Sticks and Stones'?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Apr 16, 2018 A quote appears to paraphrase remarks made by the famed physicist — but he wasn't the first to w ...
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Did NASA Reject Hillary Clinton’s Childhood Dream of Becoming an Astronaut?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Feb 25, 2021 The space agency did not allow women astronauts when Hillary Rodham was a young girl.
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Did a 1930s Marijuana Expert Testify that the Drug Turned Him into a Bat?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Feb 22, 2023 According to decades of lore, federal marijuana expert James Munch testified in court that two p ...
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Did President Nixon Hide Proof of Alien Life in a Time Capsule?

Written by:
David Emery
Mar 23, 2018 A shadowy Watergate-era figure who claims he had personal access to Richard Nixon says the presi ...
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