35 Viral News Stories From 2014 That Were Actually Totally Untrue

1. A woman did not have plastic surgery to give herself three breasts.

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2. You cannot charge your iPhone 6 by putting it in the microwave because that will actually destroy your iPhone and your microwave.

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3. A Syrian boy did not risk his life to save a girl from a hail of gunfire.

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4. Pumpkin spice-flavoured condoms were not a thing.

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5. Steven Spielberg did not actually kill a dinosaur.

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6. That “Drunk Girl in Public” video was a hoax.

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7. Emma Watson’s nude photos were never going to leak online.

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8. That time a teenager working in Target became a huge meme was not a marketing stunt; the claim that it was a marketing stunt was, in fact, a marketing stunt.

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9. A young dog attack victim probably wasn’t asked to leave a KFC because of the scars on her face.

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10. Nobody was giving away $10,000,000 for retweets.

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11. There wasn’t a UFO over Portsmouth, England.

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12. There wasn’t a wolf in an Olympic luger’s hallway.

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14. This wasn’t the most adorable mugshot ever.

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15. This is not a true fact about the casting of the Harry Potter films.

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16. France did not ban working after 6pm.

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17. There was not a deadly great white shark heading straight for the UK.

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18. The UK was also not threatened by a ghost ship infested with cannibal rats.

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19. Doritos could not give you Ebola.

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20. Red-headed people did not face extinction.

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21. A computer did not pass the Turing test.

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22. This was not former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s toilet.

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23. This was not a picture taken from a plane flying over a rainbow.

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24. A sex tape that went viral was not of an Argentinian teacher having sex with a student.

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25. A Chick-Fil-A manager did not ban the word “bae”.

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26. Jose Canseco’s finger did not fall off.

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27. The Turin shroud was not created by a radioactive earthquake.

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28. Banksy was not arrested and that is not his face.

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29. The NRA did not take out an ad on Grindr.

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30. #EndFathersDay: not a feminist hashtag.

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31. Malia Obama: not pregnant.

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32. The Big Mac: not being discontinued.

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33. Macaulay Culkin: not dead.

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34. Wayne Knight: also not dead.

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35. And nobody actually said “fuck her right in the pussy” on live TV, because it was a hoax, except then people started saying it anyway, so now it is real again.

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