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19 Times Deceit Paid Off In Surprising Ways

August 01, 2021

Honesty is the best policy, unless you are an incredibly devious, lying master mind. Dive into these stunning examples of times the best of us have been fooled by well crafted fibs...

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In 1921, Stanley Weyman introduced Princess Fatima of Afghanistan to President Harding. He did it by posing as a government official. Weyman told the princess he could get her an audience with the president, then bluffed his way in by saying he was the State Department Naval Liaison Officer. CRACKED.COM — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published a study claiming that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Thanks to his research, the anti-vaccination movement was born, and previously controlled diseases are reaching epidemic levels. The findings were fake. Wakefield falsified the results, and his co-publishers and the journal it appeared in have retracted their work. Wakefield was planning to patent an alternative MMR vaccine, and to sue vaccine manufacturers. CRACKED.COM ttp:psychcentral com/newsarchives/2004-03/1-moa030304.html — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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In 1910, William Voigt commanded a group of soldiers to overthrow the town of Kopernick. He did so by cobbling together a uniform from the surplus shop, and barking orders. The soldiers who followed him tossed out the mayor, then Voigt helped himself to the town coffers and disappeared. CRACKED.COM Benjamin Carter Hett. 2003 The Captain of Kdoenick* and the Transformation of German Criminal Justice. 1891-1914 — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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Mary Toft created a media sensation when she gave birth to 17 rabbits. They were up in her lady bits because she put them there. It was 1726, and doctors at the time believed that a mother's experiences during pregnancy could make an impression on her baby. They even warned them against contact with pets. CRACKED.COM Jan Bondeson 1997 A Cabinet of # Medical Curiosities — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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Dr. William Summerlin floored the scientific community with his patchwork mice who had transplanted tissue. He'd transplanted black fur onto white mice, with science. And then the transplanted fur rubbed off. Turns out the good doctor had colored the mice's fur with a marker. CRACKED.COM hitn ttp://w.astro.berkeley.edu/-kalas/ethics/documents/painted-mouse.pdf — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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Douglas Stringfellow was a wheelchair vet who served on the U.S. House of Representatives. Except he totally wasn't paralyzed. He had served in the military, but his heroics- and his paralysis - were lies. The Mormon Church, which had supported him until he was exposed, forced him to make a public confession. CRACKED.COM http:/hoaxesorg/archive/permalink/douglasrstringfellow/ — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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In 2001, a carver discovered a stone covered with viking runes, and the Viking museum pounced on it. It was actually the second time a runed stone had been discovered in Minnesota. The first had been dubbed the Kensington Runestone. It turned out it had been carved by grad students in 1985. The students had made the carvings to prove that the Kensington Runestone was a fake. CRACKED.COM http://archive.archaeology.org/0201/newsbriefs/runestone.html — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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In 1985, Hardy Rodenstock sold Bill Koch four bottles of Thomas Jefferson's wine. The price: Half a million bucks. Not only was the wine fake, so was Rodenstock. Hardy had been posing as a music manager and professor. Turns out he was a former train engineer named Meinhard Goerke who had never been a professor and had managed only a single shitty German band. CRACKED.COM http://www.newvorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/the-jefferson-bottles — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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Lotus CEO Jeffrey Papows claimed to be a Marine flier with a black belt in tae kwon do and a PhD. He was none of those things. He also claimed to be an orphan, when his parents were alive and well. Alarmingly, he used his phony war stories to secure sales to the U.S. Military. CRACKED.COM http://www.zdnet.com/article/background-of-otus-chief-under-fire/ — Source: The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed

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'Harambe McHarambeface'1 wins Chinese zoo's gorilla naming contest In September 2016, this ridiculous story went viral. It was even reported by some big news outlets like The Mirror and The Metro. THEIR SOURCE? BOSTON LEADER BRINGING YOU BOSTON'S BEST NEWS SINCE 1932 Well, it turns out The Boston Leader is a fake news site, created in September, 2016. The Chinese zoo never held the contest and they currently don't even have baby gorillas. SORRY INTERNET CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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Scientists recently observed two stars that periodically dim at significant rates over the course of several weeks. They have given a couple of reasonable explanations for this phenomenon: 1.) Gas and dust, which may eventually turn into a planet. 2.) An extremely large mass of comet-like material orbiting the star. So, how have news outlets reported this story? 'Alien Megastructure's SCIENTISTS Star Is HAVE Still Alien Megastructures DISCOVERED MASSIVE ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURES!. Astronomers Believe Star Could Be Alien Mega Structure Video Astronomers discover a second 'alien CRACKED.COM megastructure' — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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DUREX SANNOUNCED THE NEW FLAVOROFCONDOMS- EGGPLANT A It was just a marketing stunt to get an official condom emoji, I which would get people talking about safe sex. CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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Still trying to #savetwitter? You can stop. ve twitter so much this is where i come to @elisaschreuder - Aug Twitter? Closing in 2017? Nooo. oh no #savetwitter Anna Drew Dallas @andehek Aug 11 #savetwitter apparently Twitter has to shut down because of bullying? okay so every single social media needs to be shut down to then huh? 2 Rumors that Twitter is shutting down in 2017 due to cyberbullying came out of thin air and carry the same weight. There is absolutely no truth to the claims whatsoever. -Twitter spokesman GRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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A Hawk did NOT drop a snake on a family in Australia This scary video which went global in recent days was faked by an Australian football team appropriately named the Hawks. ORIOR They wanted to create a buzz for their upcoming game. Notice their rival team's sticker on the cooler- — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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CRACKED.COM Berkeley Doctor Claims People Die From Chemotherapy, Not Cancer June 8th, 2016 I by hganon Dr. Hardin Jones passed away in 1978 but his bogus work still lives on the Internet. AnonHQ cited Dr. Jones' study for this piece in 2016 but failed to mention the study's year of publication (1956). The work had also failed to provide any evidence for his claims and even the studies Jones had cited disproved his theory. And there's the fact that it's obsolete in this day of modern treatment techniques. — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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BREAKING: Fox News Exposes Traitor Megyn Kelly, Kicks Her Out For Backing Hillary A completely fake story about Megyn Kelly getting fired gained steam after KELLY the Facebook listed it file in trending topics. CRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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Tastes like chicken? WINGS: FDA AS CHICKEN MEAT SOLD SUPER BOWL RAT BEFORE ISSUES WARNING Modernist. Follow no more chinese food or bonless chicken are 1 million there pounds of rat meat floating around the US being passed as chicken III 2 According to articles being shared on social media, rat meat is sold as chicken in the U.S. by the ton. The source? Empire Herald and World News Daily Report, sites that, by their own admission, post fictional stories. GRACKED.COM — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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CRACKED.COM PEWDIEPIE YOUTUBER DIDN'T JOIN ISIS sky Sky News Follow NEIWS @SkyNetws A parody SkyNews Popular YouTuber @pewdiepie unverified due Twitter account to suspected relations with ISIS news.sky.com /story/pewdiepi... claimed that Felix Kjellberg, the most subscribed Youtuber, had joined ISIS after he got unverified on Twitter. 12,611 30.063 Felix Kjellberg @pewdiepie Me and @Jack Septic_Eye have joined isis. Which is why we both got unverified. RETWEETS LIKES 8,041 41.359 Aug 2016 jacksepticeye @Jack Septic Eye Aug 30 @pewdiepie said NAZIS!! Not ISIS! God dammit Felix.... 2.2K 15K Turns out it was all an elaborate joke from Felix himself to — Source: 19 Outrageous Lies (That Circulated On The Internet)

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