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Does Amazon Spray Boxes With Chemicals Dangerous to Pets? The multinational online shopping platform upped its shipping fleet during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

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Alec Baldwin Movie Accident Elicits Fake Newspaper Clippings About Prop Gun Shooting Fake newspaper clippings were circulated after a tragic accident on the set of Alec Baldwin's...

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Did Fauci Spend Taxpayer Dollars on ‘Cruel and Unnecessary’ Test of Vaccine on Beagles? Allocated government funds for the experiment reportedly totaled nearly a half-million dollars.

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Can Mobile Phone Users Update Their Voicemail Greetings Without Cellular Service? A "hurricane tip" circulating online would not, in fact, help everyone who might be affected...

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Did Trump Release Statement Bashing Colin Powell After His Death? Powell died of COVID-19 complications while battling cancer on Oct. 18, 2021.

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Is Blue Tape Laced With Fentanyl Being Placed on Cars? How many iterations of this scarelore can there be?

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‘Don’t Blame Me’ Gas Prices Meme Shows Photo from 2020 Meme: "Don't blame me when you voted for this. Cause I voted for this."

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Does Vid Show Seattle First Responders Turning in Boots After Being Fired Over Vaccines? Footage of the alleged protest received more than 3 million online views — and counting.

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Jamie Lee Curtis: Male and Female? Long-standing rumor holds that actress Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledged in an interview that she was...

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Did Canada Ban ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Chants? Conservative Trump supporters aren't cheering on random Brandons.

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Does ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Include a Munchkin Suicide? One of the most ubiquitous of film legends holds that a munchkin hanged himself on-camera...

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Did a Ghost Remove a Dog’s Collar? Here's a logical look at a viral video.

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Are Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw Getting Divorced? "I think it's the belief that you can't live in Hollywood and be happily married,...

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The claim is that the scene in which actor Brandon Lee was fatally wounded was left in the final cut of "The Crow."

Does Brandon Lee’s Death Appear in a Scene in ‘The Crow’? The actor was killed on the set of the film by a fragment of a...

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Does STAN Stand for ‘Send The Authorities Now’? This acronym's alleged meaning was created after Gabby Petito's disappearance.

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An ad said to always place a toilet paper roll under the toilet seat at night and promised to say why but did not.

Should an Empty Toilet Paper Roll or Red Cup Be Placed Under the Toilet Seat at Night? Online advertisements promised what appeared to be a handy bathroom trick.

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Are Criminals Using Plastic Bottles in Wheel Wells to Carjack People? The alleged trick of distracting a driver by cramming a plastic bottle in a wheel...

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Did Ohio Unveil Inaccurate Wright Brothers’ Design on New License Plate? The state has long hailed itself as the "birthplace of aviation" after the historic achievements...

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Does This Photograph Show a Scarecrow Made from a Corpse? "This poor fellow trespassed on the wrong farmer's property."

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Does Pic Show Eric Trump Doesn’t Know Front End of a Shovel? A meme attempting to mock Eric Trump's intelligence used a doctored photograph to make its...

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Did Jack Black’s Mom Help Create Abort System That Rescued Apollo 13 Astronauts? Judith Love Cohen was a tenacious engineer. This fact check is just a tribute.

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Does a Pic Show Pete Buttigieg Wearing a Breastfeeding Device? Buttigieg has been feeding his twin babies with a bottle during paternity leave.

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Why No Ads for COVID-19 Vaccines? (Hint: It Has Nothing To Do with Side Effects) Full FDA approval of the vaccines would change the picture.

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Were Accused Witches Burned at the Stake During Salem Witch Trials? We tackled some of the most popular myths for Halloween 2021.

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Is a Testicular Blow Exponentially More Painful Than Childbirth? There are no real winners in this contest.

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Will Banks Have To Report All Transactions Over $600 to IRS Under Biden Plan? The American Families Plan has a reporting requirement for banks that has infuriated some.

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An American meme claimed that the difference was obvious between immigrants and illegal aliens but used a photograph from the Morocco and Spain border.

No, This ‘Illegal Aliens’ Meme Does Not Show the US Border "The difference is obvious."

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Did Sandra Bullock’s Son ‘Finally Confirm the Rumors’? Online advertisements about the Oscar-winning actress and her son had appeared in various forms at...

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Before Takeover, Taliban Reportedly Offered to Let US Secure Kabul and Airport Panic, uncertainty, and surprise marked the last days of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan.

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HIstorical photograph of two boys exposed to smallpox, one who had been vaccinated and one who had not.

Does This Photograph Show Two Boys — One Vaccinated, One Not — Who Were Exposed to Smallpox? In the early 1900s, Allan Warner documented several cases of smallpox and the effects of...

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Were Backpacks Banned After a School Shooting? Students in Idaho used snow sleds, grocery carts, and laundry baskets to carry their books...

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Dr Phil Divorce Settlement Phil's McGraw Has Finally Been Revealed Debbie Higgins Robin Million $1

Was Dr. Phil’s Divorce Settlement ‘Finally Revealed’ as $1M? An online advertisement that featured a picture of the famous therapist and his wife claimed...

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Does Map of Missing Persons in US Match Up with Cave Systems? With some additional context, this coincidence doesn't seem quite as spooky.

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Why We Can’t Definitively Say TikTok Causes Tics Remember, correlation does not equate to causation.

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Did Fauci Fund ‘Gain of Function’ Research, Thereby Causing COVID-19 Pandemic? Statements made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson furthered theories that a manipulated virus spilled...

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A headline said Missippi's literacy program shows improvement and claimed to be from the Associated Press in Mississippi.

Did AP Use the Spelling ‘Missippi’ in a Headline About Literacy? To learn more, we traveled back to the year 2005.

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The someone tried to log in to your account Facebook email scam.

Facebook Scam: ‘Someone Tried To Log in to Your Account’ The Facebook email scam can often be found in spam folders, where it belongs.

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Did 45K People Die Within 3 Days of Getting COVID Vaccine? Allegations were said to have come from a “government insider.”

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Does Putting a Ziplock Bag Over a Car Mirror Have a Legitimate Purpose? Online advertisements promised what appeared to be a handy trick for drivers involving plastic Ziplock...

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RECALL: Walmart Pulls Essential Oil Spray Over Deadly Bacteria Federal agencies were investigating four recent cases of melioidosis — an extremely rare but sometimes...

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Are You Exempt from Paying Sold-Off Debt? A popular social media item wrongly claims that consumers are not obligated to pay back...

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Is This John D. Rockefeller’s ‘Masonic Creed’? An anonymous email from 2002 continues to circulate online.

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Was TV Host Bill Nye Arrested for Manufacturing and Selling Illegal Drugs? A routine review of content labeled satire.

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Alabama's worst football loss in this century was likely against Southern Mississippi or Miss in 2000 21-0 at Birmingham's Legion Field.

Alabama’s Football Team Lost 21-0 at Home 21 Years Ago The storied program had a dark period prior to its recent success, including a rare...

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Did Fox News Change Its Accreditation from ‘News’ to ‘Entertainment’? There's a lot to unfold in this meme, including the fact that Fox News (and...

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Were These Electric Cars Abandoned Because Their Batteries Failed? An anti-electric car post shows the results of a failed business model rather than a...

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Was the World’s Longest Human Poop 26 Feet Long? The world record was supposedly set at a bowling alley.

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7-Foot Statue of Harambe Placed in Front of Wall Street’s Charging Bull The gorilla installation supposedly depicts how Wall Street has gone "bananas."

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Are Members of Congress Exempt from the Federal Vaccine Mandate? Biden’s executive order took aggressive action to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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Confessions for the Holidays Ben Stein's 2005 commentary about the observance of Christmas circulates every holiday season.

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