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Article from a faux news site revives the "worm burger" rumor from the 1970s and several other McDonald's-related legends....

Was medical waste that included human tissue shipped from British Columbia to be incinerated at a power plant in Oregon?...

Is The Eagles song "Hotel California" about Satanism?...

Does a death curse threaten U.S. presidents elected in years evenly divisibly by twenty?...

Was actor Humphrey Bogart born on Christmas Day?...

Crooks are fingered by the electronic locators contained in items they steal....

The youngest mother on record was a Peruvian girl who gave birth while only five years old....

Did a childless couple discover the cause of their infertility was a lack of sex?...

Have Japanese scientists successfully cloned a saber-tooth tiger?...

Gabriel García Márquez Paco Junquera / Cover / Getty Images The great Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez died last week at the age of 87, leaving behind a much-admired body of work including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera . He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Another work he's purported to have left behind is a poetic " Farewell...

Via YouTube Mea culpa. I thought by now most folks had gotten the memo on the bed bugs hoax, but apparently not. I'm still seeing posts to the effect that smoking bed bugs to get high has reached epidemic proportions among teens. The truth of the matter is that the "news video" going around was cobbled together from existing footage as a prank. Nobody is smoking bed bugs. And even if they were, they...

Does McDonald's buy their meat from a company called '100% Beef,' which allows them to legally but deceptively claim they use 100% beef in their hamburgers?...

Was the kidnapping and murder plot of the film 'Fargo' based on a true story?...

Video shows a ball girl making an amazing catch at a minor league baseball game....

Have Jews in eastern Ukraine been ordered to register with the government or else face loss of citizenship and deportation?...

Has congress has introduced a bill requiring military veterans to inform their neighbors about their combat service?...

Has the American Psychiatric Association classified the taking of 'selfies' as a mental disorder?...

A compendium of superstitions and lore associated with Easter....

Has the Miami-Dade County Elections Department implemented a policy to close the bathrooms at all polling facilities?...

Contrary to spurious headlines proliferating via social media, Miley Cyrus canceled a couple of concerts this week after being diagnosed with the flu, not HIV. At last report she was in the hospital after suffering an allergic reaction to flu medication, but she is otherwise okay and doctors expect her to live to twerk another day. Read more... ...