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Did Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford decide to found their own university after being rebuffed by Harvard's president?...

Did greeting 'Hello' enter the language because it was the surname of Alexander Graham Bell's girlfriend?...

Move over, Will Smith , Betty White , and Chumlee . Another celebrity death hoax went viral Sunday morning after at least three bogus news sites falsely reported that actor Wayne Knight, who played Newman on the long-running TV sitcom Seinfeld , died in a traffic accident in northeastern Pennsylvania. Knight wasted no time offering proof of life in the form of a tweet issued at 8:44 a.m. which read:...

Wayne Knight of Seinfeld fame has not been killed in a car crash -- it's another celebrity death hoax....

The viral image above, which purports to be a reproduction of an old Malaysia Airlines ad bearing the unfortunate slogan, "OUR NEW BOEING 777 - LOSE YOURSELF ON A JOURNEY OF EPIC PROPORTIONS," is — in addition to being a sick, tasteless joke, of course — a hoax. No such ad was ever created or run. The aircraft depicted is actually an Airbus A380, not a Boeing 777, and indeed the original...

Was Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 made to disappear so one party could gain control of a multiply-owned patent?...

Do Red Bull and other brands of energy drink contain bull semen?...

E-mail phishing scam poses as notifications from NICE about blood test results....

Contrary to Internet reports originating on the fake news website eBuzzd.com, Austin "Chumlee" Russell of the History Channel reality TV show Pawn Stars is not dead. "May we live long, Rich forever," Russell tweeted to confirm he is alive and well after the hoax went viral. The same website was responsible for a hoax one month ago claiming actress Betty White had died in her bathtub. She, too, is...

Can a home pregnancy test really detect testicular cancer?...

Is the killer Volat-Araneus 'flying spider' due to migrate to the UK this year?...

Conspiracy theory claims the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad sabotaged Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370....

Links posted on Facebook supposedly point to a video of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370....

Did George Zimmerman accidentally shoot and kill himself while loading a gun?...

Celebrity death hoax claims Chumlee from Pawn Stars has died of a heart attack....

The 25h anniversary of the World Wide Web prompts renewed interest in the claim that former Vice-President Al Gore once claimed he 'invented' the Internet....

Legend not for the squeamish: Did former New York Mets outfielder Kevin Mitchell cut the head off his girlfriend's cat with a knife?...

The snouted 'pigfish' -- real animal or another fauxto?...

FACT: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg probably knows how to spell his own name. See also: Facebook No Swearing Campaign ...

Photograph purportedly shows missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370....