snopes.com Update: 12 April 2014
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New Articles
- Legend has it that in 1983, Atari disposed of millions of unsold 'E.T.' game cartridges in an Alamogordo landfill. Is that really what the company buried out in the New Mexico desert, or was it something else?
- Are schoolkids really smoking and injecting crushed bedbugs to get high from a hallucinogenic substance they contain?
- Are Kansas legislators considering a bill that would force the Fox science show 'COSMOS' off the air in that state?
- Is the NCAA investigating the use of 'skill enhancing drugs' by the 2014 champion UConn Huskies men's basketball team?
- Account of a pregnant woman who named her child after the rescuer who died while saving her and others at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
- The discovery of a major bug known as 'Heartbleed' has prompted web sites to encourage users to change the passwords for all of their online accounts immediately.
- FBI agents holed up in a psychiatric hospital attempt to order pizzas from an incredulous delivery man.
- After a bank failure, does the FDIC have 99 years to pay back insured deposits?
- Has pop star Justin Bieber admitted on Twitter to being bisexual?
- Did George Zimmerman sell his painting of Trayvon Martin for $30,000 at an online auction?
- Photograph purportedly shows a school essay rejected because the student chose 'Jesus Christ' as her hero.
- Warning about Crest 3D White brand toothpaste causing plastic balls to become embedded in users' gums.
- Actor Dwayne Johnson, aka "The Rock" is not dead.
- Conspiracy theory: A passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hid his cell phone in his rectum and used it to post a picture to the Internet after the flight was hijacked and its passengers imprisoned.
- Don't forget to visit our Daily Snopes page for a collection of odd news stories from around the world!
Worth a Second Look
- Were maps and other escape aids were smuggled to Allied POWs in Monopoly sets during World War II?
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Fraud Afoot
- Visit our Top Scams page for a list of schemes commonly used by crooks to separate the unwary from their money.
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