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[FACT OR FAKE #69] Is There Really Such A Thing Called "Smartphone-Loss Anxiety Disorder"?
There have been much coverage about a new press release on how lost smartphones can cause anxiety disorder, terming it as "smartphone-loss anxiety disorder" and claiming that it's a real thing and we should all be worried.
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[FACT OR FAKE #68] Is Facebook Really Creating A Drug Task Force To Monitor Messages?
Earlier this week, a story went viral claiming that Facebook is launching a 'Drugs Task Force' starting this October to monitor private messages and post of social media users who use the social network for the act of taking illegal substances.
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[FACT OR FAKE #67] Has This Megastar Really Removed Her Ribs And Pickled Them In A Jar?
The Latin sex symbol has long teased fans with the suggestion she underwent surgery in a bid to transform her figure, but has she finally come clean over long-standing rumours that she removed two of her ribs to look slimmer?
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[FACT OR FAKE #66] Is Coke Really Recalling Two Million "Contaminated" Coca-Cola Bottles?
This particular 'report' -- that Coca-Cola is recalling millions of bottles of Coke with the name 'Michael' on the label because they were contaminated by a worker who wanted to take revenge on her boss named Michael -- seems to have gained a lot of social media traction.
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[FACT OR FAKE #65] Is This Video Showing A "Child Firing A Missile On Gaza Beach" Fake?
A video, in which a child fires a rocket-propelled grenade into the sea, has been shared more than 15,000 times on Facebook, frequently with captions condemning Palestinians.
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[FACT OR FAKE #64] Was MH17 Actually The Lost MAS Plane MH370?
The disappearance and resulting media circus of MH370 back in March 2014 feeds easily into whatever chosen conspiracy theory you want to believe about MH17. But should you believe in this particularly viral theory that claims that the MH17 was actually the lost MH370?
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[FACT OR FAKE #63] A 29-Year-Old Actually Changed His Tickets For Both MH370 And MH17
A Dutch cyclist is being reported to have escaped death twice after being scheduled to fly on doomed Malaysia Airlines flights - Flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine, and Flight MH370, which disappeared over the Indian Ocean in March this year.
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[FACT OR FAKE #62] Is It True That Smelling Farts Could Help Prevent Cancer?
Cancer research scientists at the University of Exeter are suggesting that the smell of fart might actually be beneficial in terms of reducing a person’s risk of cancer and other chronic illnesses.
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[FACT OR FAKE #61] Was This Woman Really Arrested For Calling Her Ex 77,639 Times?
An Albuquerque woman called her ex-boyfriend of 3 weeks 77,639 times and texted him 41,229 in 1 week until being arrested for it. Did she really?
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[FACT OR FAKE #60] Did KFC Really Kick A Disfigured 3-Year-Old Out Of Its Restaurant?
Outraged readers across the country boycotted KFC — and donated generously to Victoria’s recovery — after hearing the girl was asked to leave a KFC franchise because her facial scarring "scared" other customers.
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[FACT OR FAKE #59] Hey Girl, Did Ryan Gosling Really Adopt A Nine-Month Old Baby?
On Father's Day, almost 1 million Facebook fans' ovaries exploded when Ryan Gosling confessed on Facebook— among other things — that he had briefly adopted the nine-month-old son of a deceased friend. What really happened?
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[FACT OR FAKE #58] Do Century Eggs Contain Toxic Chemicals?
Thirty companies producing preserved eggs in Nanchang county had been closed by authorities for using toxic copper sulphate rather than baking soda to speed up the maturing process.
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