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TrueHuman remains were found in a room that was underneath what was the garden in Benjamin Franklin's London home.SnopesDec 26, 2022TrueA comic first published in 1919 predicted cell phones.SnopesDec 25, 2022TrueThere's a hotel room located inside Cinderella's Castle at Disney World in Florida.SnopesDec 25, 2022TrueEdwin Booth, the brother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth, saved the life of Robert Todd Lincoln, the president’s son.SnopesDec 25, 2022FalseThe word "hangover" is derived from the practice of drunken sailors sleeping on ropes.SnopesDec 24, 2022FalseBenjamin Franklin wanted the turkey — not the bald eagle — to be on the Great Seal of the United States.SnopesDec 24, 2022FalseUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was photographed wearing short shorts and an Afro hairdo at an LGBTQ Pride event.SnopesDec 24, 2022FalseA flag given to U.S. House Speaker Pelosi and Vice President Harris by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a joint session of Congress in December 2022 contained Nazi "SS" runes.SnopesDec 24, 2022TrueAfter its theatrical release and initial home video run, Disney deleted a scene from "The Santa Clause" movie that mentioned the phone number 1-800-SPANK-ME.SnopesDec 23, 2022MixedU.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz did not join the standing ovation for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he gave a speech at the U.S. Capitol in late 2022.SnopesDec 23, 2022Can’t tellElon Musk will appoint Donald Trump Jr. as Twitter's new CEO.SnopesDec 23, 2022FalseActor and comedian Dick Van Dyke died in December 2022.SnopesDec 22, 2022FalseThe office of Republican Congressman Scott Perry once released a statement about "Italian satellites" and "Chinese thermostats" switching votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.SnopesDec 22, 2022TrueElon Musk has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania.SnopesDec 22, 2022TrueAn 88-year-old French man arrived at a hospital with a First World War shell stuck in his anus, which led to the evacuation of the facility's patients.SnopesDec 22, 2022TrueElon Musk said, “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.”SnopesDec 21, 2022FalseAllegations against country superstar Dolly Parton have been confirmed. Also, she endorsed CBD or keto gummies.SnopesDec 21, 2022TrueTwitter CEO Elon Musk was photographed with Russian state TV personality Nailya Asker-Zade at the 2022 World Cup.SnopesDec 21, 2022Can’t tellAs of late 2022, an aide of former U.S. President Donald Trump followed him around his Mar-a-Lago golf course to show him positive press coverage about him.SnopesDec 21, 2022Can’t tellOn Nov. 9, 2016, Kari Lake tweeted, "Congratulations to the obese American public for getting one of their own into the White House, the fattest U.S. president since Taft."SnopesDec 21, 2022FalseA real photo of Elon Musk at the final game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup shows him looking old, with a thinner hairline, rounder face, and sagging neck and cheeks.SnopesDec 20, 2022FalseCDC data issued in October 2022 provide evidence that COVID-19 vaccines increase a person's risk of death.SnopesDec 20, 2022TrueA photograph shows a woman wearing a special "mechanical nozzle mask" during the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic.SnopesDec 20, 2022Can’t tellAt a service station in Oklahoma, a gas pump had a sticker on it instructing people not to insert the pump into "mouth or rectum."SnopesDec 20, 2022