If you are blogging and writing newsletters like I am, often you run across interesting tidbits that you want to pass along to the readers of your publications.
What I've learned is that it is best to do some fact checking, and the best place I've found to do that is Snopes.com
Two examples from my newsletters over the years:
1. I read and published the statement that the soft drink Coke was originally green. Snopes says it is a common urban legend. Whoops!
2. I read and later published that you get significantly more gas in your car if you pump your gas in the morning when the gas is colder. I had an automotive engineer client read that in my newsletter and let me know that the thermal expansion coefficient of gasoline wasn't large enough to make much difference and that the idea was an urban legend. Snopes says that also.
So now, I check with Snopes!
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