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TrueIn July 2025, a 61-year-old man died after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain.SnopesJul 22, 2025TrueIn 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest radioactive substances known to man.SnopesJul 22, 2025TrueA photo authentically depicts Donald Trump and wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein together in 2000.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump signed a law effective Aug. 1, 2025, making couples who have been in a relationship for five years automatically legally married.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseIn 2016, after Donald Trump won the presidency, then-President Barack Obama was “trying to lead a coup” with Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.Said by Donald TrumpPolitiFactJul 22, 2025FalseTariffs are “going to pay off our deficit.”Said by Howard LutnickPolitiFactJul 22, 2025TrueIn late July 2025, officials in Texas reported that the number of missing people in the July 2025 floods dropped from more than 160 to two.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseThree girls were found alive inside a hollow tree more than a week after the July 2025 Texas flash floods.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseThe bison population of Yellowstone National Park was leaving the park in July 2025.SnopesJul 22, 2025MixedLegislation introduced by Republicans could ban hairdressers from giving gender nonconforming haircuts to minors.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseStephen Colbert, host of "The Late Show," announced in 2025 a new show in collaboration with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.SnopesJul 22, 2025False"The Simpsons" predicted a July 2025 scandal in which a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert allegedly caught a tech CEO cheating with the company's chief people officer.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseA photograph authentically shows a younger Donald Trump leaning forward to kiss a teenage contestant on the mouth at a modeling competition.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalseA video showed former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron's wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, addressing the Coldplay concert that allegedly exposed her husband having an affair in July 2025.SnopesJul 22, 2025TrueIn July 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated video of former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office.SnopesJul 22, 2025FalsePope Leo XIV nominated pop superstar Taylor Swift for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025.SnopesJul 21, 2025Can’t tellU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Carlos Ruiz.SnopesJul 21, 2025MixedFacebook posts accurately reproduce comments former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made about President Donald Trump.SnopesJul 21, 2025FalseUnder President Donald Trump’s newly signed tax law, “Those making less than $50,000 receive the largest (tax) cuts.”Said by Lori Chavez-DeRemerPolitiFactJul 21, 2025False“The White House just announced that Trump only has four days left” because of his chronic venous insufficiency.Said by TikTok postsPolitiFactJul 21, 2025TrueA photo authentically depicts Donald Trump and financier Jeffrey Epstein together in 1997.SnopesJul 21, 2025TrueActor Christian Bale is building 12 homes in a $22 million village in Palmdale, California, that aims to keep siblings in the foster-care system together.SnopesJul 20, 2025MixedSome of the 55,000 balls used during the Wimbledon tennis tournament are annually upcycled into homes for threatened harvest mice.SnopesJul 20, 2025FalseAn image authentically shows Jeffrey Epstein posing with U.S. President Donald Trump and a young girl.SnopesJul 20, 2025