Miscellaneous

Photos and videos show a clear line between water from the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote about the death of Dick Parker in a novel 46 years before a man named Dick Parker died in the almost the exact same way.

Reports that a Texas man was told to take down a flag outside his apartment because Muslims residents found it threatening don’t add up.

Are black lawn jockey statutes racist? The debate is ongoing.

Forwarded emails have cited a letter from a Special Olympics athlete named John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after she used the “R” word on Twitter.

Minions from “Despicable Me” Were Inspired by Tortured Jewish Children-Fiction!  Summary of eRumor: Minions, the little yellow oval-shaped creatures that appear in the “Despicable Me” movie franchise, were inspired by tortured Jewish children during World War II. The Truth: This one is a hoax. Many blog posts have speculated that the goofy Minions from the “Despicable …

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The famous Easter Island heads have bodies buried beneath the Earth.

Rumors have spread across the Internet that there will be 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in August 2015, which will mark the first time that’s happened in 823 years.

After ESPN announced that it would award the Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Bruce Jenner for publicly transitioning to a woman, rumors spread across social media sites that Noah Galloway, a double amputee war veteran, came in second place to Jenner.

A ship reappeared 90 years after it went missing in the Bermuda Triangle.