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Will a 'Full Pink Moon' be visible on 15 April 2014?...

Was Leave It to Beaver the first U.S. network television program ever to show a toilet?...

A stunned animal dressed up for a photo gains revenge on his tormentors. ...

Have scientists successfully cloned a dinosaur from a fossil?...

The IRS does not contact taxpayers by phone to demand that overdue taxes be settled via prepaid debit card or wire transfers....

Malicious code loaded onto computers via court notice fraud....

Has NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon announced he is in a relationship with another male driver?...

Circulating today via social media: Don't buy it. You'll find no reports of Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine dying of a drug overdose on legitimate news sites, because it simply isn't true. Adam Levine is alive and well. If blurbs for a "breaking news" video about his supposed death appear in your news feed, don't like, share, or click on them — just hit delete. They're part of a clickjacking scam...

We've seen this hoax before: Rewind to January 4, 2014 , when precisely the same phenomenon — a rare planetary alignment which would allegedly counteract gravity so everyone on earth would feel weightless for five minutes — was supposed to occur, but didn't. The same website that purveyed this nonsense then, News-Hound , is purveying it again, only this time the miraculous alignment is...

Does quitting "cold turkey" result in the skins of addicts in withdrawal resembling that of plucked turkeys?...

Imitation see-through skirts: The "current fashion rage in Japan," or a digital hoax?...

Warning about razor blades discovered glued to playground equipment in a public park....

Conspiracy theory claims the U.S. Navy diverted missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to a secret Navy base and captured it....

Fake Twitter accounts using CNN's name and logo are tricking users into retweeting posts claiming that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 (or "MH350," as the missing plane is erroneously referred to in one example) has been "found in a bay." Nothing of the sort has actually been reported. It's a clickjacking scam. Users who follow links in these tweets are redirected to a promotional website, MobileLikez.com,...

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Did notorious homophobe and Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps confess on his deathbed that he was gay?...

A child who wrote to God about her deceased pet received a kind letter in response. ...

Warning about a family who perished after drinking tea from a kettle in which a deadly spider had died....

id Google Earth help locate a woman who had been stranded on a desert island for seven years?...

Via Facebook: From our old friends at News-Hound.org , who pranked the Internet last January with a scoop about a planetary alignment supposedly counteracting earth's gravity and making everyone weightless for five minutes, comes the gripping tale of Gemma Sheridan , a British woman shipwrecked and stranded for seven years on a desert island until some random person spotted her SOS sign on Google...