Mom, Look What I Found in My Capri Sun!
Shortly after the above picture began making the rounds on Facebook, Capri Sun manufacturer Kraft Foods, Inc. posted a statement acknowledging that consumers have, on rare occasions, found mold growing in packages of the preservative-free fruit drinks. Learn more...
'Our Lives Are at Stake Here'
Is it true, per a "news story" making the rounds via Facebook, that conservative firebrand Ann Coulter refused to board a commercial airliner and launched into a tirade against affirmative action after finding out the pilot was an African-American woman? No.
Pumping Up the Fear
How NOT to Detect Lead in Lipstick
A 2003 scare-o-gram falsely claiming that lead contamination in lipsticks can be detected by scratching the products with a gold ring continues to circulate via social media, now with the addition of a visual aid (see above) purporting to show a cancerous mouth tumor. Read More...
Hoax Quiz: Spot the Fakes!!!
Image #1: Photo of a preserved baby dragon
found in someone's garage in England.
Choose One: Is it Real or Fake?
Clarissa's Ghost
Adventures in Epithetymology
As the story goes...
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term "S.H.I.T.," which meant to the sailors, "Ship High In Transit."
Also see:
• Origin of the F-Word
• History of "The Finger"
• The True Meaning of "Dork"
Kentucky Fried Brain? More Like a Kidney, but Still No Happy Meal
A British college student in Colchester, Essex says he was shocked and sickened to find a "horrible wrinkled foreign body" in a box of KFC chicken last month. It looked like a brain, Ibrahim Langoo told the U.K. tabloid The Sun. He has vowed never to eat at KFC again. Read More...
'Hole Punch' Auto Burglaries
Viral alerts circulating via forwarded email and social media warn car owners of a "new" method of burglary: a tiny hole punched under the door handle permitting thieves to jimmy the lock. Read the details...
(Viral image via Facebook)
The Top 10 of 2012
10. The Origin & Meaning of "420"
9. Cell Phone Numbers Going Public
8. Richard Gere & the Gerbil
7. The Clown Statue
6. Mr. Rogers Was a Navy SEAL
5. Jamie Lee Curtis Is a Hermaphrodite
4. The Legend of Bloody Mary
3. Carmen Winstead (They Pushed Her)
2. Hercules, World's Biggest Dog
1. NASA Predicts "Total Blackout" of Earth!