Watch any feel-good movie, and that nice main character is going to get dumped on at some stage in the movie. Their boss might be straight out of The Devil wears Prada, or their brother is the equivalent of Scar trying to take down the king of the jungle, but the point is that being… Read More »
A video of a massive explosion has been shared over 11,000 times on Facebook, with the accompanying caption that the user sharing it is “feeling heartbroken in Ukraine”. This video was not taken in Ukraine during the recent Russian invasion. It appears to show the Beirut port explosion, which took place on 4 August 2020… Read More »
Several posts on Facebook have claimed that the pornography-hosting website Pornhub has been blocked for users in Russia since the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Some of these posts include a screenshot of a tweet from 25 February 2022, which received more than 20,000 retweets. It claimed that Russian users who attempted to access the site… Read More »
A post being shared on Facebook includes a number of screenshots of articles about what can cause heart attacks “in 2022”. One of these is a completely fake news story and one is from over a decade ago. We have checked several examples of misinformation about heart attacks on social media recently. The implication of… Read More »
Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages) are those few villages in Britain that suffered no casualties in the First World War. These villages had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again when the war ended. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #717 first appeared… Read More »
