Ted Kennedy asked leaders of the Soviet Union to help the Democrats defeat President Reagan in the 1984 presidential election in a secret letter that he sent in 1983.

A March 2009 event honoring then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lingered on for years online, as both right-wing political figures and internet “influencers” have linked her to another ...

A screenshot of a 1989 Associated Press article about a United Nations official's "global warming" prediction circulated among climate change deniers.

Dubious and dated stats about missing children spread in August 2020, among them that 2,000 children go missing in the United States every day.

After Thomas Edison’s school teacher called him addled or mentally ill in a letter, Edison's mother hid the letter from the young inventor and homeschooled him so that he could reach his full ...

A self-professed “targeted individual” on Twitter apparently had his hackles raised by a group of German satiricists enough to try to use their work to gin up fears about “Antifa.” “Ever seen an ...

As outgoing United States President Donald Trump and his supporters were locked out of some digital platforms, social media users asked — sometimes derisively — if Trump would open an account on the ...

A viral, ham-handed parable about "who shook the jar" of proverbial ants was attributed to David Attenborough.

A midwestern meme contains claims that Lake Superior, because of its size and frigid waters, "never gives up her dead." ...

Robert De Niro was questioned as a witness in a French prostitution ring in 1998. However, the actor was never charged and denies wrongdoing.

A popular post repeated a long-circulating piece of Nintendo lore concerning the original size of Super Mario Bros. versus single screenshots of the game today.

Once again, a suspiciously sourceless, wounded lover quote attributed to Frida Kahlo is circulating on social media -- with no evidence she ever wrote any such poem.