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Did then-President Richard Nixon fake a phone call to the moon when astronauts first landed in 1969? No, that's not true: According to AT&T, the call went from Washington, D.C., to Houston to the moon using a capsule communicator. The call was made using "telephone-radio transmission," the National Archives wrote. The claim appeared in a Facebook post on June 18,…

Did Buzz Aldrin reveal that the Apollo 11 mission was faked when he corrected Conan O'Brien's recollection of having watched the moon landing live on TV as a child by telling him that what he watched was an animation? No, that's not true: Buzz Aldrin made a technical distinction to clarify that the live TV broadcasts showed an animation of…

Do these videos prove that astronauts found an "alien city" on the moon during the Apollo 20 mission and then attempted to conceal their discovery? No, that's not true: The Apollo 20 mission never happened, astronauts did not find evidence of extraterrestrial cities during other visits to the moon and there is zero evidence that these videos are authentic. The…

Was an 51-year-old explosives expert named Marty Daughtry from Greenville, North Carolina arrested after blowing up the wrong building? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It is not real. The story originated from an…

Was a 22-year-old man named Josh McDermott from Beavdr City, New England struck by lightning and did this cause him to have a permanent erection? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It is not…

Did a Saudi man named Mustafa Ali Hamad eat two of his four wives after getting stranded for 13 days in the desert after a car crash? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It…

Was 26-year old Abdullah al-Rashidi from Jizan in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 1,000 lashes for perfroming oral sex on a camel owned by his boss? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It is not…

Did Coast Guard employee Marleen Freeman tell the cops who arrested her for prostitution that she was forced into it to cope with the effects of the recent government shutdown. No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or…

Did Chinese officials involved with their space program express skepticism that the American Moon landings ever happened because their recently landed lunar rover did not find any evidence for them? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or…

A YouTube video purporting to show film director Stanley Kubrick confessing to having helped NASA fake video of the U.S. moon missions is actually a fictional element for a movie. If you don't believe us, then maybe you should tell it to Buzz Aldrin's face. Here are some clues. T. Patrick Murray, who made "Shooting Stanley Kubrick," explains in the…