Snopes.com, a definitive source for determining the veracity of “common fallacies, misinformation, old wives’ tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items,” has collected some very funny user requests:
Every day our inbox fills with hundreds of questions that range from the routine to the extraordinary, the mundane to the fantastic. While we’re honored that our readers think to turn to us with these head-scratchers, many of their queries are too obscure or complicated for us to answer. Among the more unusual questions that are sent our way, we sometimes find a few seemingly posed with such a sense of urgency that we can’t help but wonder about the circumstances that prompted them — and the results.
Makes you wonder about some of those people…