The internet can be a tough place to distinguish fact from fiction . Who has time to fact - check all those beautiful , weird , and sometimes horrify pictures ? Well , we do .
Today we have ten more image you may have ensure tossed around on social medium late . And all of them are lie to you .
1) Isthisa photo of the Northern Lights in Alaska?
The real Northern Lights in Alaska are supposed to be absolutely gorgeous . But sadly , that ’s not what thisphotois showing . It ’s actually a panoramic range of a function of theOrion Nebula , take from the Hubble scope .
The image is understandably quite popular onTumblrandTwitter . But it ’s a Photoshop mash - up that dates back to at least2009 . DeviantArt memberJeddakaclaims to have created the stack from sugar , though the jury ’s still out on that one .
Still ca n’t quite discern the artistry of this beautiful role player ? tick outAttila Nagy‘s howling GIF explainer below .
Inaccurate photo via@SciencePorn
2) Is Marlboroactuallygoing to make marijuana cigarettes?
After both Washington and Colorado legitimatize amateur marijuana last class , news show disperse far and wide on social media that the Almighty of Marlboro want to become the nation ’s first major weed mark . Do Big Tobacco companies like Philip Morris actually want to become fully grown Weed ? No . No theydon’t .
The seed for this particular fake look-alike is a website calledAbril Uno , one of those rottenly unfunny Onion - hopeful with write up that ultimately gets pass around not because they ’re funny , but because they ’re jolly plausible .
But the Marlboro - marijuana association is an extremely old meme . Similar images have been mocked up on everything fromt - shirtstophone casesover the years , even though the cheery cancer - pusher behind Marlboro have no intention of drive in on the wacky tobacky plot .
Inaccurate photo viaAbril Uno
3) Werethese womenbeing punished for witchcraft in 1922?
wayward to what you may have read onTwitter , these fair sex were n’t being penalize for witchcraft , the pic is n’t from 1922 , and they belike were n’t even genuine captive .
I emailed Jamie Carstairs , who work on theHistorical Photographs of Chinaproject at the University of Bristol to ask about the picture . Carstairs trace the Twitter legend as “ way off the scratch . ”
For starters , the range actually see back to between1870 and 1880and was taken by a man namedWilliam Saunders , a British - born photographer who died in 1892 . The womanhood probably were n’t captive at all . Experts in nineteenth century Chinese picture taking trust that the women picture are probably just people on the streets of Shanghai who were posed in thatcangueby Saunders .
Castairs directed me to a1999 paperby Regine Thiriez , who takes a deeper look at the photo and explicate why even some reputable photography books from the 1970s had misdated the simulacrum as being from 1907 . Both the “ witchcraft ” angle and the later date of 1922 seem to be an internet fabrication .
Inaccurate photo verbal description via@HistoricalPics
4) Isthisreally Audrey Hepburn dancing?
Have you ever notice someone from a engine block away and imagine you knew them , only to realize when you got closer that it was n’t who you intend it was ? That seems to be the case with this supposedpictureof Audrey Hepburn that keep getting pass around on societal media .
The photo really come up from a Russianstock double land site . And no , that ’s not the star of the classical 1957 musicalFunny Face . But it is a somewhat striking resemblance when you do n’t have access to a mellow firmness icon .
Still not positive ? Take acloser lookat the woman in the picture .
Inaccurate photo description via@HistoryInPics
5) Doesthisphoto show the recent snow in Florida?
Yes , Florida did get some snow recently . But no , that photo beingpassed aroundby climate variety deniers was n’t it . This year ’s C. P. Snow was a bitless intensein the Sunshine State , as you could see from the Instagram photo on the right . The picture on the left go out back to at least 2010 .
And no , snowstorms in the South do n’t confute the consuming scientific evidence that shows climate change is really happening .
Inaccurate picture description via@massSNAFU , real Florida coke photo via@munchkinnn11
6) Isthis“Sad Putin” after Russia lost to Finland in hockey?
You may have ensure this exposure gettingpassed aroundyesterday showing a dejected Vladimir Putin after the Russian Olympic hockey team was defeated by Finland 3 - 1 . Russia was relegate from medal contention , so it would be an understandable response .
But the photo is n’t actually from that game . It ’s aGetty Imagesphoto that was takentwo days earlierwhen Russia played Slovakia . Amazingly , the Russians in reality gain ground that game 1 - 0 . Yet another lesson that we should all be skeptical of just about every imagecoming out of Sochiright now .
Inaccurate photo verbal description via the@DailyMirror
7) Isthisreally a double-decker bus race from 1933?
No , that ’s not a real photo of a double - Thomas Dekker charabanc race in 1933 . It ’s a pre - Photoshop photo collage , despite what sources likeRetronautand@HistoryInPicsmight claim .
The National Archive of the Netherlands clearly file away the photo in itsFlickraccount under fakes , picture montages and retouched epitome . On the right wing , an existent double decker motorbus being testedcirca 1933to prove its stability .
Fake exposure viaRetronaut
8) Isthisa super moon from Sequoia National Park?
Is this a photo of the “ crack moon ” in Sequoia National Park ? No . But even the experts can be slang when it comes to beautiful fakes of nature .
The Twitter account for the National Parks Conservation Association sadlytweeted this photofrom Imgur as if it were real . But as Twitter fakes sleuth@PicPedantpoints out , it ’s in reality a photofrom Europewith a gigantic , glow “ moon ” photoshopped in .
Fake picture viaImgur
9) Isthisa photo of Civil War soldiers with a tank?
Could this really be a colour photo of Civil War soldier posing in front of a tank ? Of course not . It ’s clearly a mod photo of Civil War re - enactors . But that did n’t blockade one of the WWW ’s grown account Twitter accounts from twinge it out as real .
Someone recently commence an account called@AhistoricalPics , poking fun at the inaccuracies of chronicle like @HistoryInPics and @HistoryInPix . The mockery account tweets out obviously false facts , and silly photoshopped Creation . But amazingly , the folks behind @HistoryInPix did n’t get the joke . They remove that plain mislabeled photograph from the charade account andpresented it as real .
Confederate General Benjamin Franklin must be rolling over in his grave .
Inaccurate picture via@HistoryinPixby way of the parody account@AhistoricalPics
10) Wasthisa place for disposing of ugly children?
That ’s not very squeamish , is it ? No , that cruel pic of an “ ugly child ” attain the rounds is n’t real . It ’s a poorly rendered photoshop . Well , at least the signal is . The original photo can be found at theGetty Imagesand clearly shows that the sign in reality scan : “ Please Keep Off The Grass . ”
Admittedly , it ’s still not open why that unseasoned little girl is stuck in a trash bank identification number . But we can trust that it ’s just a momently baffle jest by a weirdo photographer in 1928 . The past was passably weird on its own . One marvel why so many the great unwashed keep try on to make it even eldritch .
Fake photo via@History_Pics
For more viral fakes watch outTeddy Roosevelt sit a moose(FAKE!),JFK cuddling with Marilyn Monroe(FAKE ! ) , andNikola Tesla lounging on the beach(SPOILER qui vive : FAKE ! ) .
https://gizmodo.com/9-fun-facts-that-are-total-lies-1478595535
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