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The Calaveras Skull, a human skull found by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was purported to prove that humans, mastodons, and elephants had coexisted in California. The Cardiff Giant, a hoax of a hoax; P. T. Barnum had a replica made because he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax item.
By Gillian Pensavalle No, there's not a gigantic 50-foot crab hanging out in a small harbor town in the UK. Foiled again, Internet. Photoshop strikes again; the photo is fake. The photo made ...
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The English philologist Robert Nares (1753–1829) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means "to cheat", "to impose upon" [3] or (according to Merriam-Webster) "to befuddle often with drugged liquor." [4] Hocus is a shortening of the magic incantation hocus pocus, [4] whose ...
By then, he had spent US$2,600 (equivalent to $60,000 in 2023) for the hoax. [2] On a night in late November 1868, the giant was buried in a hole in Newell's farm. [2] Nearly a year later, Newell hired Gideon Emmons and Henry Nichols, ostensibly to dig a well, and on October 16, 1869, they found the giant. [8]
In early 2020, when the world learned about the effects of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or the virus that causes Covid-19) during the initial outbreak in China ...
Image credits: PageD0WN We asked Latter what she loves most about gaming. "It's a really engaging and active form of fun," she replies. "Where watching a film or series is passive, gaming really ...
More than a month after the Reddit post, right-wing sites and influencers publicized the photo, claiming it shows a Haitian immigrant stealing geese in Springfield. [59] The Ohio Department of Natural Resources was inundated with phone calls from people who believed the misinformation, and it became associated with the larger pet-eating hoax. [59]