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FalseUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's administration advocated "personal economic and restrictive sanctions" be "applied to any Christian caught worshiping in unapproved ways."SnopesJan 4, 2023Can’t tellA "Dr. Benjamin Eidelman" gave Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot days before he collapsed during a game.SnopesJan 4, 2023FalseJohn Travolta died at the very end of 2022.SnopesJan 4, 2023TrueA photograph accurately shows Andrew Tate handcuffed in a police van after his December 2022 arrest in Romania.SnopesJan 4, 2023FalseFIFA, the governing body for international football competition, will keep Pele's feet in its museum.SnopesJan 4, 2023Can’t tellActor Morgan Freeman said, "Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intelligence, and rumors don't define who you are."SnopesJan 3, 2023TrueBuildings in Hong Kong are designed with "dragon gates" in accordance with feng shui.SnopesJan 3, 2023TrueAn authentic Marlboro cigarette ad from the 1950s used the image of a baby to market cigarettes to women.SnopesJan 2, 2023Can’t tellRussian author Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles."SnopesJan 1, 2023FalseA video shows Andrew Tate trolling a reporter following his arrest and release from jail in late 2022.SnopesDec 31, 2022FalseA Jerry's Pizza box that was visible in a video posted by former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate led to his arrest in Romania on human trafficking charges.SnopesDec 31, 2022FalseThe Ames department store brand is making a comeback in 2023.SnopesDec 30, 2022TrueRonzoni Pastina pasta, labeled by the company as product No. 155, has been discontinued.SnopesDec 30, 2022FalseAlbert Einstein said, "The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance."SnopesDec 29, 2022TrueDecades-old pictures show lobster, caviar, and carved meats being served on Scandinavian Airlines.SnopesDec 29, 2022TrueSwedish environmental teen activist Greta Thunberg tweeted "yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com" in response to a tweet from controversial Twitter influencer Andrew Tate in which he bragged of owning 33 cars with "enormous emissions."SnopesDec 29, 2022FalseAn authentic tweet from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott read, "We celebrated Christmas Eve by putting migrants on a bus and kicking them out into the freezing cold. May the joy of Christ's birth fill your heart as it did ours. Merry Christmas from the Abbott family."SnopesDec 28, 2022FalseTom Selleck died in December 2022.SnopesDec 28, 2022TrueA restaurant space previously leased by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., as Shooters Grill later became a Mexican restaurant.SnopesDec 28, 2022MixedA grade school teacher in the U.S. audibly passed gas while conducting a class during a Zoom video call with students.SnopesDec 28, 2022Can’t tellBenjamin Franklin said or wrote, "A penny saved is a penny earned."SnopesDec 28, 2022Can’t tellA Southwest Airlines pilot wrote a Facebook post that said the company "has imploded" amid thousands of canceled flights following a winter storm in December 2022.SnopesDec 28, 2022TrueThe confetti that drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve bears people’s hopes and dreams, written or printed on each piece of paper. People can write these hopes and dreams on Post-it notes year round at the Times Square Visitor Center.SnopesDec 27, 2022Can’t tellIndian independence leader Gandhi once stated, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."SnopesDec 26, 2022