Curiosities

Claim: A Bulgarian mystic known as Baba Vanga predicted that the end of the world will begin in 2025. Rating: What's UndeterminedThere are no written records of Baba Vanga's predictions, so it is impossible to know what prophecies she actually...

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Claim: An authentic photograph shows Italian dictator Benito Mussolini participating in a wheat harvest. Rating: ContextAlthough this historical photograph and several others like it are authentic, Mussolini's participation in the harvest was staged for propaganda purposes. A viral photograph claims to show...

These days, time capsules have a pretty wholesome reputation. Countless individuals, schools, and businesses have placed present-day items in sealed containers with the hope that they’ll provide illuminating information about a given era once eventually opened by a future...

Claim: Elon Musk is planning to acquire ABC in order to remove "wokeness" from the network and will fire its presidential debate moderators immediately. Rating: In mid-October 2024, a post (archived) on Facebook page SpaceX Fanclub claimed Tesla owner Elon Musk was...

Donald Johanson really had no business going bone hunting that Sunday. There were letters to write and fossils to catalog—heaps of paperwork left undone while fellow paleoanthropologists were visiting his camp in Ethiopia’s Afar region.But graduate student Tom Gray...

In October 2024, a video was published on YouTube claiming Justin Bieber had "finally admitted" what Sean "Diddy" Combs did to him. The footage, which had amassed more than 356,000 views as of this writing, documented the Canadian pop star's...