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As Atlas Obscura [reports](http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/so-theres-a-47yearold-burger-sitting-in-the-alberta-legislature-building?utm_campaign=e67f7e57fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_02&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Paid+Morning+Brief&utm_term=0_a43c5d924a-e67f7e57fb-206132789), in the middle of a budget debate in 1969 it was used as a prop to make a point. The politician pulled it out of his desk with the words, “This will give you something to look at.”

It's real!

A legislature building in Canada has a 47-year-old, plastic-encased burger inside.

The misinformation was reported by The American Tribute, a self-described satirical website, Snopes [reports](http://www.snopes.com/first-recorded-marijuana-overdose-occurs-hours-after-massachusetts-legalization/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter).

It's fake!

Within a few hours of marijuana being legalized in Massachusetts, the state's first official overdose was recorded.

There are no pancakes on your Lincolns. The hoax has been around since at least 2012 but, as Snopes [reports](http://www.snopes.com/secret-pancakes-on-5-bill/), it's deliciously fake.

It's Fake!

There's a stack of pancakes hidden in the American $5 bill.

The [creation is the brainchild of Adam Padilla](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/this-fisher-price-happy-hour-playset-is-not-real?utm_term=.mflrAVkGbl#.sw9AQDMmdY), who runs a branding agency and an Instagram account called Adam the Creator. Angry parents had to be told the creation “is not endorsed, produced or approved by Fisher-Price.”

Fisher-Price made a drinking play set for toddlers.

It happened while the couple was visiting a provincial park in Alberta. “We saw it on the side of the road so we stopped and waited,” [Theresa Malan told BuzzFeed Canada.](https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurenstrapagiel/lick-lick-lick?utm_term=.rbz142nOAQ#.pmvA3nEjzr) They watched it lick another parked car, “then it just walked over to our car and had its way.”

A couple in Canada had their car licked by a moose.

"The animals are taxidermied; she sprayed each with a commercial product used to waterproof leather to protect them from the water," [the _Washington Post_ reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/12/14/she-staged-a-viral-story-you-fell-for-her-hoax-she-thinks-thats-beautiful/).

A performance artist faked a viral news story about a raccoon riding an alligator.

After a video of a woman claiming she's lived in a Trump hotel for nine years free of charge went viral, [BuzzFeed news investigated](https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/no-donald-trump-didnt-let-a-homeless-woman-live-in-a-hotel?utm_term=.ovOejNn1xo#.qoXO5RNDqy). A Trump Hotels spokesperson said, “The woman depicted is not our guest.”

Donald Trump let a homeless woman live in one of his hotels for free.

Yikes, you might want to put some ice on that. Maybe next week will be better.

You got sucker punched by fake news.

Congratulations, you can separate the B from the S but only sometimes.

You're on your way to being a fake news detective.

You win this time. But stay vigilant, fake news is always lurking.

You're a fake news superhero.

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