Snopes Debunker - Rumors about an extremely resilient Florida window, the "Italian ghost train" story, Keanu Reeves, and Bill Gates

​ TUESDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker Oct. 4, 2022 Trouble Reading? View in Your Browser Today: Rumors about an extremely resilient Florida window, the "Italian ghost train" story, Keanu Reeves, and Bill Gates ​ Is This Photo of Windows Holding Back Hurricane Ian Floodwaters Real? Over the weekend, a Twitter user posted a photograph of three unbroken glass windows supposedly withstanding the weight of heavy flooding from Hurricane Ian. The photo showed floodwaters several feet high with the tops of palm trees visible above the surface. The late September storm led to massive devastation throughout the state of Florida as well as quite a few online rumors, such as the purported sightings of a shark and an orca being spotted in flooded streets.  Jordan Liles reports. Read Now Fact Checks and Original Reporting No Evidence for ‘Italian Ghost Train’ Story Who needs a good ghost story to be true, anyway? Read Story. Did Keanu Reeves Say, ‘Grief Changes Shape but It Never Ends?’ Quotes seen as deep and thoughtful are often attributed to the widely loved actor. Read Story. Did Bill Gates Say ‘Hung Election and Civil War’ Are Coming? According to Forbes, Gates said that "political polarization may bring it all to an end" and referenced "a hung election and a civil war." Read Story. Latest Fact Checks News Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter and Country Queen, Dies Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died.  Read More 3 Physicists Share Nobel Prize for Work on Quantum Science Three scientists jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for their work on quantum information science. Read More Super Squash: 2,554-Pound Pumpkin Carves out New US Record A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest. Read More

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