Per Snopes www.snopes.com these are the hottest urban legends currently in circulation
- Video claims that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a staged hoax.
- Claim that Bank of America blocks purchases of firearms or ammunition made with their debit/credit cards.
- Claim that actress Cindy Williams wrote an article critical of military pay raises.
- List of coincidences between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations.
- Warning about contamination dangers with cut onions.
- Claim that Jane Fonda gave away identification slipped to her by U.S. POWs during the Viet Nam War.
- Warning about death and disease caused by rat urine on soda cans.
- Letter from nonagenarian World War II veteran criticizes President Obama.
- Claim that baby carrots made from deformed full-sized carrots that have been soaked in chlorine.
- Darrell Scott's statement made before a House subcommittee on crime.
- Claim that Adolf Hitler once said, 'To conquer a nation, you must first disarm its citizens.'
- Claim that facebook soon plans to institute a monthly charge for users.
- Warning about thieves breaking into cars by drilling holes under door handles.
- Warning about scammers' sending pages from the 809 area code.
- Account of Irena Sendler's saving 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust.
- Article extolls the medical virtues of honey and cinnamon.
- Warning that eating Beneful brand dog food causing dogs to become ill and die.
- Claim that Nancy Pelosi spurned use of the Speaker's 'small private jet' and order it be replaced with a 'big fat 200-seat jet'?
- Claim that a U.S. postage stamp commemorates Islamic holidays.
- List cites instances documenting voter fraud in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
- Claim that entering your PIN in reverse at any ATM will summon the police.
- Ben Stein's commentary about the observance of Christmas.
- Anecdote about a professor's using the grading of exams to teach about socialism.
- Charley Reese editorial about 545 people being 'responsible for the domestic problems that plague' the U.S.
- Warning that thieves are handing out key rings at gas stations that enable them to track potential victims.
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