Find out by hitting Snopes, the authority on the urban legend. Here you can find out if that picture of an 80 pound cat is true, and did a tiger really raise piglets that were abandoned by their mother? Go to Snopes and find out the truth behind what your friends email you!

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You may have gone on Wikipedia today, January 18, 2012 and noticed that it’s all blacked out. You can’t search for anything, and it prompts you to enter your zip code. What’s going on? Wikipedia and other websites are protesting two pieces of legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate that would cut [...]

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For the second year in a row, the folks at The New York Times are encouraging you to stay current with what’s going on. They’re running a Summer Reading Contest where students ages 13-25 read and comment on what they read in the Times each week, and the best responses are posted in a special [...]

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If not tonight  may be your luck night.  The Perseid meteor shower is at its height tonight, August 12th.  WHAT?  You don’t know what the Perseid meteor shower is?  Well here is a link to  the American Meteor Association, that will explain it to you, just scroll down the page.  Also in their site is [...]

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There is so much of it!  And with everyone talking about the latest stories, you need to keep up unless you will look like a…well, you know.  But don’t despair!  BBC news has a quick way to get a week of facts – their “1o things you didn’t know” section.  And CNN has a new [...]

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Maybe you think you would, but these questions are HARD.   Want to prove it to yourself?  Click the link to take a practice US naturalization test and see if you have what it takes to be an informed American.  The  US Citizen and Immigration offices have the official test (and answer key) given to [...]

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Can’t stand “bad” news? The job market, the economy… it seems like all the news is bad lately. Well there is plenty of news out there that will actually make you laugh. Check out the Odd News page at Yahoo.com which is updated daily as well as Excite’s news page. And so we don’t ignore the rest of the world, there is Wonderful World from CNBC and also weird news just from China Japan and Korea on Weird Asian News. So if you want to know about people tattooing their eyeballs (true!) or how a riot broke out at the America’s Next Top Model auditions – then these are the sites for you!

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What other events were happening on the day you were born? Now you can find out what that day, or any other day, was like thanks to TimesMachine. From their website: “TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.” Now you can see pictures of the Titanic or the read about the first moonwalk just as you would the day that news was happening. Pretty cool!

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