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2023-12-12 00:23:46 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 1C89C105A062C52A65CF7EB61CFAB03B99A04C56F170DC44370FD662C5C500EC
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The claim “Smithsonian Destroyed 1000’s of Giant Skeletons” in 1900, appeared in a 2014 issue of satirical magazine, Wolrd News Daily. Edited images have been around since 2002. The articles image was made around 2013, for a photoshop competition posted on DesignCrowd. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/smithsonian-giant-skeletons/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141225085343/https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/smithsonian-admits-to-destruction-of-thousands-of-giant-human-skeletons-in-early-1900s/
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