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    Card Cutter Car Robbery Hoax Warning

    According to this would-be warning message, which is circulating rapidly via social media, criminals are using cutters concealed behind name cards to slash the faces of unsuspecting drivers in order to rob them.

    Hoax-Slayer · English

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    Bigoted and Nonsensical Message Claims That You Can Stop Mosques Being Built By Not Leaving 'Religion' Blank on 2016 Australian Census

    According to a rather breathless ALL CAPS message that is circulating via social media and email, non-Muslim Australians should not leave the ‘Religion’ section blank on the upcoming 2016 census because this will lead to more mosques being built in Australia.

    Hoax-Slayer · English

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    HOAX -‘Breast Larvae Infestation From Undergarments’

    This story was first published on July 26th, 2006

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    Immigration Quote Wrongly Attributed to Sir Edmund Barton

    The quoted words were not spoken by Sir Edmund Barton nor were they spoken in 1907. The original version of the quote comes from a letter written by US president Theodore Roosevelt in 1919. The photograph also depicts Theodore Roosevelt.

    Hoax-Slayer · English

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