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Originally Posted by lookout123
has that been snopes-ified yet?
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actually, snopes had be proven to be an elaborate internet hoax. It was started as a joke by two teenagers who were surfing the internet whilst suspended from school. They started creating "proofs" for some of the urban myths on a website created by a friend of theirs, and the project snowballed. They randomly picked stories to reject to increase the perceived validity of the site, using 12-sided dice to determine the outcome for each myth.
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