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FalseChelsea Clinton is married to George Soros' nephew.SnopesOct 27, 2016MixedEarly in America's history, white Irish slaves outnumbered Black slaves and endured worse treatment at the hands of their masters.SnopesSep 24, 2016MixedWorld Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein bought terrorism insurance two months before 9/11, then collected double its value on the grounds that there were two attacks.SnopesSep 14, 2016TruePresident Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."SnopesAug 24, 2016FalseGetting hit in the testicles is hundreds of times more painful than labor or childbirth.SnopesJul 28, 2016FalseA woman who grabbed a baseball away from a child at an Astros game was identified as child psychologist Grennele Brashkowitz.SnopesJul 24, 2016FalseThe creator of Pokémon said in an interview that the game is anti-Christian, and was developed with Satanists in mind.SnopesJul 12, 2016FalseAreas that voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 'Brexit' vote were the same areas affected by Mad Cow Disease in 1992.SnopesJun 27, 2016FalseA video shows a hunter getting attacked by a lion while posing with a recent kill.SnopesJun 9, 2016FalsePrince's music vault contains 37,000 hours of Bill Joel cover songs.SnopesMay 3, 2016MixedDonald Trump's father was arrested following a Ku Klux Klan-related altercation in 1927.SnopesFeb 28, 2016MixedA photograph shows "the world's cutest rodent," a Baluchistan pygmy jerboa.SnopesFeb 26, 2016TrueA photograph shows a man standing on top of a towering pile of bison skulls.SnopesFeb 25, 2016FalseDonald Trump said in 1998 that he would one day run as a Republican because they are the "dumbest group of voters."SnopesOct 16, 2015FalsePhotographs show power transmission lines in the shape of "metal giants" in Iceland.SnopesOct 14, 2015FalseA man sued himself and was awarded $300,000 (paid by his insurance company) after he injured himself with a boomerang.SnopesJul 8, 2015FalseThe seven astronauts supposedly killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion are quietly living out their lives in the U.S.SnopesMay 3, 2015FalseA photograph shows the face of a girl from Hiroshima who was blinded by an atomic bomb.SnopesMar 24, 2015FalseA photograph shows snow walls lining a highway in Massachusetts.SnopesFeb 10, 2015Can’t tellThe Supreme Court ordered the Smithsonian Institution to disclose that it destroyed several giant skeletons in the early 1900s to preserve the mainstream narrative of evolution.SnopesDec 17, 2014FalseWD-40 released a print advertisement in 1964 that was full of sexual innuendo.SnopesNov 12, 2014FalseAn airliner was saved by a pickup truck after its landing gear malfunctioned.SnopesNov 10, 2014FalsePresident Obama told an audience in Europe ordinary Americans are "too small-minded to govern their own affairs" and should "surrender their rights" to an " all-powerful sovereign."SnopesOct 17, 2014FalseA species of cephalopod known as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, that can live on both land and water, is endangered.SnopesOct 17, 2014