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Does a New Study Show the Higher a Country's Vaccination Rate, the Higher Its Excess Death Rate?

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Aleksandra Wrona
Oct 3, 2023 "It's not a study. It's a cherry-picked deceptive graph by a random anti-vax twitter account," o ...
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Food Preservatives Delay How Fast Human Corpses Decompose?

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Sep 16, 2023 We presented the question to the director of forensic anthropology at Western Carolina University.
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Are More People Killed by Cows than Sharks?

Written by:
Aleksandra Wrona
Jul 23, 2023 A viral meme says that every year sharks kill 10 people, while 100 people die from being stepped ...
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Was the Grim Reaper at King Charles’ Coronation?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
May 10, 2023 Eagle-eyed internet sleuths spotted a mysterious cloaked figure crossing the abbey.
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Was the Pringles Creator Cremated and Sold to Customers?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Dec 22, 2014 We first looked at this rumor about the death of Pringles inventor Fredric J. Baur back in 2014.
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From Black Death to COVID-19, Pandemics Have Always Pushed People to Honor Death and Celebrate Life

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The Conversation
Oct 18, 2022 Halloween, with its mix of the macabre and the playful, provides a moment to reflect on how clos ...
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Do Vegetarians Live Longer Than Meat Eaters?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Dec 12, 2017 While some studies have found that vegetarians have longer lifespans, the question is difficult ...
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Was a Japanese Man Crushed to Death by a Pile of Pornography?

Written by:
Megan Alpert
Mar 6, 2017 Spurious articles reported that a man was crushed by a pile of pornography; he actually died of ...
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Did a 12-Year-Old Girl Livestream Her Suicide?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Jan 5, 2017 Authorities are investigating the death of a Polk County, Georgia, girl who livestreamed her sui ...
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The Elephant of Surprise

Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 1, 2015
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Was a Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration?

Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Oct 27, 2005 “The body was in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn’t do anything.”
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Halloween Trickery Turns Deadly

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Jul 11, 1999 These Halloween hanging stunts went terribly wrong.
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Have People Been Buried Alive?

Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Jun 9, 1999 And could it still happen?
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