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As Riley Leonard steps into the role of Notre Dame quarterback, fans have mixed feelings. Coming from Duke, Leonard is known for his agility and running ability, but questions linger about his passing ...
Nathaniel Alexander He invented the folding chair. Broadly, the meme was part of a much larger and more widely discussed incident loosely known as “the Alabama riverfront brawl,” or the “Alabama ...
What sounded like an eerily prescient quote by a Chinese military philosopher about a wish to "rule over the ashes" spread virally in March 2023.
A popular February 2023 post to Reddit's r/todayilearned asserted 80 percent of elevator "close door" buttons are not functional.
The death of former Pope Benedict XVI led to claims a "dead pope hammer" was necessarily deployed as part of the Catholic Church's traditions.
Fact Check Claim: When Tucker Carlson’s mother died, she left him in her will. Description: In a will validated after her death, Tucker Carlson’s mother, Lisa McNear Vaughn, left him and his brother a ...
Fact Check Claim: " … if a hermit crab finds a new shell that is too big it will wait for other hermit crabs who need new shells to gather and then they will organize themselves by size and trade ...
The effects of news paywalls on public information literacy have long been a thread in discourse around news literacy, and 12ft.io purportedly bypasses paywalls to connect readers to blocked content.
The emergence of an "insurrection PowerPoint" in December 2021 renewed interest in a January 4 2021 memo restricting deployment of the Washington DC National Guard.
A popular meme claimed that the seventh (or tenth) largest pyramid in the world was a Bass Pro Shops location.
Years-long social media discussions contrasting worker pay and the price of Big Macs in Denmark and the United States resurfaced in November 2021.
A viral September 5 2021 tweet thread “debunking” a series of stories about ivermectin use and hospitals shows that disinformation and the way it is delivered is mutating. Republican public relations ...