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Some of these stories are crazy and true. Some are pure bullshit. Can you tell the difference?

Some of these stories are crazy and true. Some are pure bullshit. Can you tell the difference?

Certaines de ces histoires sont dingues et vraies. D'autres sont de pures conneries. Pouvez-vous faire la différence?

Pouvez-vous vraiment dire si ces nouvelles sont vraies ou fausses?

Can You Tell The Hoax News Stories From The Real Ones?

This was a fake [story](http://nationalreport.net/target-discontinue-sale-holy-bible/) from National Report, a hoax news website.

It's fake.

[According to](http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/awake-dating/) Jarrod Fidden of [Awake Dating](https://awake.dating/), the site caters to the kind of person “who has investigated and come to his or her own conclusions on a collection of topics and issues. And through this research and critical thinking, [he] has ‘woken’ from the fantastic false dream carefully crafted for the ‘consumer'.”

It's true.

There's a new dating site just for conspiracy theorists.

Canuck is a famously friendly crow in Vancouver, Canada. After police detained a man who threatened them with a knife, Canuck made a visit to the crime scene. "Yes, the bird did pick up the knife at a crime scene on Tuesday and began to fly away before dropping it,” [Constable Brian Montague told BuzzFeed Canada.](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/vancouver-crime-scene-crow?utm_term=.sbzKo7jBN#.coBVe10d2)

A crow tried to steal a knife from a crime scene.

This is a hoax story [from World News Daily Report](http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/national-geographic-cameraman-eaten-alive-during-shooting/).

It's fake!

A National Geographic photographer died after being attacked by a giant fish off the coast of Portugal.

Attaporn Boonmakchuay was using the toilet in his home when a 10-foot python [slid through his home plumbing and bit his penis](https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/snake-bite?utm_term=.vpBw5Z3mq#.hrvgnqk8e).

True!

A huge snake bit a Thai man's penis while he sat on the toilet.

U.S. border agents [did in fact find a pound of meth hidden inside a burrito](https://www.buzzfeed.com/leticiamiranda/superrr-burrito?utm_term=.wt1E9NjOy#.yw4AX3k1K). An Arizona woman tried to smuggle it into the country, and she is now facing criminal drug possession charges with intent to distribute.

It's true

A woman tried to smuggle meth into the U.S. inside a burrito.

Hoax news site _The Valley Report_ [is the source of the story](https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/the-desk-pooper-is-not-real-yall?utm_term=.iupVWxPX4#.on6JRQYMl).

It's false.

A woman defecated on her boss's desk after she won the lottery.

This is one of [several anti-trans hoaxes](https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/anti-trans-hoaxes-on-fake-news-websites?utm_term=.ioqE91V0L#.fyR8qOgLx) that fake news websites have recently been pumping out. It was published by a fake site called _Associated Media Coverage_.

A transgender woman was shot to death after entering the women's bathroom at a Colorado department store.

The queen bee was trapped inside the car, [so her swarm followed as the driver went on her way](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3599385/a-mitsubishi-fit-for-a-queen-why-20k-bees-couldn-t-leave-this-suv-alone-1.3599391). The bees followed the scent of the queen for two days were eventually reunited.

20,000 bees chased a woman in her car for two days.

The _Middle East Observer_ website published a [story](http://www.middleeastobserver.org/panama-papers-saudi-arabia-king-sponsored-netanyahus-campaign) containing a fake quote from Isaac Herzog, a member of Israeli parliament and leader of the Zionist Union party, that said, "In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad Kayali." That never happened, but [the story was picked up by several online outlets in the Middle East](https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fake-panama-papers-leak?utm_term=.gvyRj6DV4#.nc0dRMDKz).

The Saudi King funded Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli election campaign.

Your bullshit detector needs some serious work.

You're about halfway woke.

You're a budding detective.

You're a fake news savant!

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