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The claim: American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” The quote, which appeared to have first circulated in this exact form and with attribution to Twain in 2011, likely originated as a misquotation and misattribution of a 1932 quote […]
In early 2026, an image circulated online that supposedly showed a man named James Peterson after doctors lobotomized him for being gay. The claim: An image authentically shows a real person named James Peterson, who doctors lobotomized in 1948 for being gay. The claim spread on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Many fans ask whether Peterson’s […]
Are pirates who hijacked measuring tools intended for Thomas Jefferson the reason U.S. is not metric An oft-repeated “weird fact” is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country’s standard system of measurement, instead of what […]