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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Folklore Quiz]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Quiz: Christmas traditions, history and folklore: christmas folklore christmas history history traditions quiz test test your knowledge]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Obama Phones&#039; for the Needy?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama_phone_free_cell_phones.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims the Obama administration has started a program whereby taxpayer money is being 'redistributed' to provide free cell phones and service to welfare recipients.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Purell Hand Sanitizer Safety Warning - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Emailed safety warning purporting to originate from Chevron warns that Purell Hand Sanitizer is flammable and can catch fire if treated skin is exposed to an open flame soon after use]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Let Them Eat Cake]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Say what you will about her, Marie Antoinette never actually uttered the words 'Let them eat cake.']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Frog Salad - Live Frog Found in Packaged Salad (Photo) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Emailed image purportedly shows a live frog found in a bag of Florette brand packaged salad mix]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Apocrypha Now! Archive - Steve Burns Is Still NOT Dead!]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Cell Phone Ban - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Legislative brief' circulating via forwarded email claims the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a bill on September 11, 2007 banning cell phone use in moving vehicles. It is a hoax.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[NASA Space Pen - Did NASA Spend Billions Designing Zero-Gravity Space Pen? - Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Space Pen - Did NASA spend $12 billion to develop a ballpoint zero-gravity 'space pen' for astronauts to use in space?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Is Steve Burns Really Dead?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Did Steve Burns die of a drug overdose? Nope, he's alive and well. Internet rumors prove false once again...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Asbestos in tampons - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa111898.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[False email rumor claims brand-name tampons are purposely made with asbestos fibers 'to make women bleed']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Urban Legends Quiz: Food &amp; Drink Urban Legends]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Quiz: Food & drink Urban Legends: urban legends quiz]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[JFK: &#039;I Am a Jelly Donut&#039;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Did Germans chuckle with embarrassment when John F. Kennedy uttered the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner' at a Berlin Wall ceremony in 1963?]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Dread Candiru]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Dear Guide: Our Scoutmasters always insisted that there were small, parasitic fish in some rivers (particularly the Amazon) that could swim up the urine stream and get inside you...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Flight 77 Crash at the Pentagon - Eyewitness Accounts]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Quotes from people who saw and/or heard the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[9/11 Tear Drop Memorial]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/manmadewonders/ss/tear_drop_6.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos of the 'Tear Drop Memorial' designed by Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate the victims of 9/11.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rectal Foreign Objects]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Writer Leif 'Trials of a Gay-Seeming Straight Male' Ueland glosses the execrable Richard Gere gerbil-in-the-butt legend in his probing article for Nerve.com, 'Everything but the Gerbil'...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[NBC Poll: In God We Trust]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Forwarded email claims an NBC poll asking respondents if they believe in God yielded 86% in favor of keeping the words 'In God we trust' on currency and 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14% against.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Elephant Paints Self-Portrait (Video) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Elephant painting elephant: Viral video appears to show an elephant painting a 'self-portrait' unguided by human hands]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Carjacking Scheme?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/crime/a/carjacking.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email rumor warns of a new carjacking scheme involving the placement of a sticker or flyer on the victim's rear window to fool them into exiting the vehicle with the engine running.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tsunami Live Photos - Analysis]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_tsunami_photos7.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos, cont.: calgary flame hangzhou china calgary herald qiantangjiang indian ocean tsunami]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Darrell &#039;Shifty&#039; Powers]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/military/a/darrell_shifty_powers.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Email tribute to Darrell 'Shifty' Powers, World War II hero and member of the 'Band of Brothers' made famous by the Stephen Ambrose book and HBO miniseries of the same title. He died on June 17, 2009.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gary Hogan Prayer Request (Iraq Version) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_gary_hogan_2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[2004 version of an email prayer request from 'Gary Hogan' on behalf of his wife, 'Cindy Hogan,' who supposedly has cervical cancer]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Air Force One Hoax]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/socialpoliticalissues/ss/air_force_one_3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In an emailed photo of Air Force One, the military plane used by President Barack Obama, the tail number has been changed to a racist epithet.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What is a taboo?]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/faq/blfaq-taboo.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Folklore and Mythology FAQ: What is a taboo?: north american tribes taboo tales encyclopedia britannica world folklore celtic lore]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fw: Thought Your Shoes Were Uncomfortable? (Photos) - Netlore Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_uncomfortable_shoes.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Emailed photos of extremely uncomfortable-looking high-heel and platform shoes, allegedly the 'latest fashions' from Japan and Italy]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Apocrypha Now! - Urban Legends of the Silver Screen]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa090797.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Movie legends: on-camera suicides, cameos by ghosts, and s-e-x in Disney cartoons]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Missing Person: Evan Trembley - Urban Legends]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_evan_trembley_missing.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Hoax 'Amber Alert' circulating via email claims 15-year-old Evan Trembley of Wichita Falls, Texas is missing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sick, Dying &amp; Missing Kids - Email Alerts, Chain Letters &amp; Hoaxes]]></title>
         <link>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxkids.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Outdated and outright phony chain letters, with rare exceptions]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mastectomy Bill in Congress]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Email flier urges women to sign an online petition in favor of the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act, which would require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy]]></description>
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