Does a video show an explosion on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, that collapsed on March 26, 2024? No, that's not true: The video shows an explosion on a bridge over the Kerch Strait between Russia and Crimea in October 2022. At the time of writing there is no evidence that an explosion was involved in the…
Did the ancient Egyptians do the dental work seen on the skeleton pictured below? No, that's not true: The picture circulating that is being called dentistry from ancient Egypt is dental work done by an Italian dentist at the turn of the 20th century, Dr. Vincenzo Guerini. The ancient Egyptians did have a type of dentistry, but this photo is…
Readers of Lead Stories know we've been following the work of Christopher Blair (featured in the Boston Globe today by coincidence) for quite some time now. For those of you who don't know him, he's the person behind such iconic satirically trolling news sites as The Last Line of Defense, Reagan Was Right, Ladies of Liberty, Freedum Junkshun, Daily World…
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