snopes.com Update: 20 December 2014
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New Articles
- Is Congress giving Apache land to a foreign mining corporation?
- Can you win an Audi R8 by liking and sharing a Facebook post?
- Is "emordnilap" a real word commonly found in dictionaries?
- A video supposedly shows two hikers walking on a lake of crystal clear ice.
- Did Jay Z buy the Los Angeles Dodgers, and is he moving the team back to Brooklyn?
- Can you win a free car on Facebook by liking and sharing a post?
- Did Pope Francis say it's not necessary for people to believe in God to be good?
- Did a terrorist warn a nice stranger to avoid an upcoming attack?
- Is the Christmas toy 'Elf on the Shelf' run by the NSA?
- Was Rob O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden, targeted in a gang home invasion?
- Do photographs show toys from Christmas drives for the needy that were exchanged at Walmart in order to purchase beer and cigarettes?
- Did Michael Jordan say that he didn't care about kids who die trying to buy his shoes?
- Can a combination of Motrin and Robitussin cause a fatal drug interaction in children?
- Are gang members disguising real guns as toys?
- Has AMC agreed to bring Beth Greene back to The Walking Dead?
- Did the Smithsonian destroy recovered skeletons of giant humanoids to preserve the narrative of evolution?
- Do Pringles brand potato chips contain a chemical that is known to cause cancer in humans?
- Has the murder of Keith Passmore been ignored by the media because the victim was white?
- E-mails from a company's Human Resources Director document the difficulties of office holiday party planning.
- Is the U.S. Postal Service selling Queen Michelle Obama stamps?
- Report of a piece of wire found inside of a candy cane in Canada.
- Game maker Cards Against Humanity sold 30,000 boxes of bull feces during a Black Friday promotion.
- Holiday trivia: "Jingle Bells" was not, in fact, written as a Christmas song.
- Will Facebook soon make all inbox messages publicly viewable to promote honesty?
- Is Burger King taking Timbits off of the Tim Hortons menu?
- Is Eminem really giving away $5 million to one lucky fan for Christmas?
- Did a Texas plumbing company's truck end up in the hands of a militant group in Syria?
- Was a getaway car struck by lightning after its occupants robbed a church?
- Did Leah Remini find during a prank on Ellen DeGeneres' show that her husband was cheating on her?
- Did Pope Francis say that animals go to heaven, too?
- Did Dr. Laura say all pit bulls "take up space" and should be "put down"?
- Did Oprah Winfrey accuse Bill Cosby of drugging her and trying to rape her?
- Did a FedEx driver commit suicide after crashing and destroying hundreds of Christmas presents?
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