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“One of our favorite pastimes here at Cracked is sucking the mystery out of life like the cream out of a Twinkie, leaving only the bland, dry sponge cake of reality behind. To that end, we’ve decided to list the often mundane solutions to some of the world’s most enduring mysteries, and once again, you’re welcome.”
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“”But this girl I work with told me about it,” Jackie says. “She read it in a magazine. And she said her cousin knew the lady who died.”
“Nope,” Dan says. “Urban legend. Look.”
He hands her the phone with this page from Snopes.com on the screen, disproving the story.
Now Jackie is at a moral crossroads. She has to make a choice. The actual facts do not appear to be in dispute, but she is invested in this story. She has told it before, several times. She has endured quite a bit of discomfort at airports because she believed it to be true. Forced to choose by the Snopes page confronting her on Dan’s phone, she will either have to disavow or double-down.”