Author Archives: WeRaven

Vaccinated pilot did not die mid-flight

An Instagram post claims that a vaccinated pilot died during a flight causing an “emergency landing and uproar in the aviation industry”.  While the screenshot used on Instagram doesn’t specify the airline involved, the article the image comes from gives more detail. It claims the pilot worked for the US company Delta Airlines—something the airline… Read More »

6 Tips to Stop Procrastinating Your Life

We’ve all done it before. You have an important task to do, but you can’t bring yourself to do it until the last night. Eventually, the deadline comes, and you complete the task, but you’ve wasted a lot of time and caused yourself much-unneeded anxiety in the process. Procrastination seems harmless at first, but when… Read More »

Fireworks are not banned in London on New Year’s Eve

A post on Facebook with over 700 comments says: “the Mayor of London has cancelled New Year’s Eve celebrations in London……and will not allow fireworks.  Yet is it true that he will allow celebrations of Divali [sic], including fireworks?” It’s true that the Mayor’s office recently announced that the New Year fireworks display usually held… Read More »

A photo of a tiny bird actually shows a tiny sculpture

A photograph of a tiny bird is being shared on Facebook with the caption: “The Humming bird [sic]… Smallest in the world.” In fact, this photograph does not show a real bird. It is a sculpture by the artist Ina Malinik, who specialises in miniature animals. It is also not a sculpture of a hummingbird.… Read More »

Picture of refugees on ship isn’t from WWII

A post on Facebook claims to show a ship full of European refugees fleeing to North Africa during the Second World War.  This is not true. The picture featured in the post was actually taken in 1991, and shows thousands of Albanian people boarding Vlora, a cargo ship bound for Italy, after the collapse of… Read More »

25 Kickass Random Facts List #680

The cast of Starship Troopers agreed to do the nude shower scene only if the director Paul Verhoeven agreed to direct the scene naked, which he did. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #680 first appeared on KickassFacts.com. Source