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#PMT-2019-0719-15856
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Pepsi was the sixth largest military power in the world in 1989

In 1989, the cash strapped Soviet Union paid Pepsi with 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer in exchange for three billion dollars worth of Pepsi, causing Pepsi to become the sixth largest military power, at least Navy wise, in the world.

This is a true historical fact; for a brief period in 1989, Pepsi did possess a fleet of decommissioned Soviet vessels before selling them for scrap.
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#PMT-2018-0302-6902
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MLB baseballs have been juiced since the 2015 All-Star break

Nate Silver's website... Went and x-rayed baseballs from the year 2014 and 2015. And baseballs in 2015 had different cores after the All-Star break. And that's when the power surge started to happen. That carried into 2016, 2017.

The Atlantic and other outlets later confirmed through scientific testing that MLB baseballs were 'juiced' (lower drag/tighter cores) during this era.
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#PMT-2017-0515-13631
HankHank

Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and was replaced by a body double named Melissa

Basically, the idea of this thread was that Avril Lavigne in 2003... committed suicide. But because she was so famous at the time, her record company kept her alive by not saying that she died and then just using her body double as Avril Lavigne going forward... There's recordings, like vocal recordings that sound completely different.

Avril Lavigne is alive and has addressed this specific hoax several times.
Push
#PMT-2016-1209-1349
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Jeff Bezos is using Alexa to listen to every conversation in your house

Stay woke on this. Jeff Bezos just told everybody that he's listening to every conversation that you have in your house and keeping track of it.

Reports later emerged that Amazon employees did listen to voice recordings to improve the AI, though the 'listening to every conversation' framing is an exaggeration.
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#PMT-2016-1028-3081
HankHank

Twitter announced the death of Vine just to get PR and check its importance

It seems like something that a company that was maybe down... they need a little press. What better way to press than announce a death?... they're like, if enough people object to us closing down Vine, then we'll keep it around.

Vine was officially discontinued by Twitter, and while it lived on as 'Vine Camera' briefly, the platform died.