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Business Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoBusinesses are the classic whipping-boys of urban legendry, and the bigger they are, the more they get whipped. Seems like they can't do anything right — they're run by people who abuse their ...
Food Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoThe hunt for food is the dominant activity in the lives of all animals, and the collection, growing, and hunting of food was the primary occupation of human beings for thousands of years. Although ...
Sexuality Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoWas a Transgender Woman Convicted of Sexually Assaulting a Young Girl in a Bathroom? Written by: Megan Alpert Kim LaCapria Oct. 20, 2017 A spate of blog posts attempted to link the rape of a 10-year-old girl in her home to laws allow ...
Soapbox Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoMany political opinion pieces circulate with no identifying authorship or publication information, or with credits mistakenly attributing them to the wrong sources. In this section we attempt ...
Disney Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoNo phenomenon in popular culture has inspired more legends, myths, and rumors than Walt Disney. This quiet, conservative Midwesterner was a visionary and technological innovator who built a ...
Humor Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoThe urban legend and the joke are often separated by a fine line. The very same tale can be either one, with the only distinction being whether it is related as a true story or an obvious bit ...
Horrors Archives | Snopes.com
Snopes· 2 days agoSince urban legends are often a means of expressing our fears about the dangers that ripple just beneath the surface of our seemingly calm and untroubled world, it should come as no surprise ...
Fact Check: Image Purports to Show Caffeine Under a Microscope. Here's What We Found
Snopes· 4 days ago"That's what I see when I get a migraine from lack of or drinking too much caffeine," one user...
Fact Check: Gibbon Skeleton Allegedly Illustrates Similarities Between Humans and Other Apes. Here's...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 days agoApril 23, 2024 In the comments section, social media users argued whether the skeleton did, in fact,...
Fact Check: Angelina Jolie Was Purported To Have Said 'Arabs and Muslims Are Not Terrorists' and...
Snopes· 4 days agoThe protracted, often bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict exploded into a hot war on Oct. 7, 2023,...