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Friday 13th on a calendar (Getty Images/Studio-Annika)

13 facts about Friday the 13th

Nardos Haile
A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Rainbow fentanyl, a Halloween fright?

Joel Best - The Conversation
September 1964: American clergyman and civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968). (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The myths that diminish MLK's legacy

Eric McDaniel
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A homeless couple living in Walmart?

James Proud
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Oliver North; Ronald Reagan (Getty/Chris Wilkins/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

5 myths you were taught were true

Herb Reich
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sasquatch hunters

Dylan Taylor-Lehman - Narratively
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25 "facts" that aren't

Larry Schwartz - Alternet
Police move down a street in response to demonstrators who were throwing objects, Monday, April 27, 2015, after the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Joanna Rothkopf
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Sarah Gray
Sofia Vergara and Ed O'Neill of "Modern Family" attend the Emmy Awards, September 23, 2012. (AP/Frank Micelotta)

Erika L. Sánchez - Alternet

Anna Pulley
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Joseph Stromberg - Smithsonian.com
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Lindsay Abrams

Timothy McGrath - GlobalPost

Kristen Gwynne - Alternet
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Federal contractors: 5 myths

Anastasia Christman
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