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  • 2019-03-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Man Fake Being Deaf and Dumb for 62 Years to Avoid Listening to His Wife? (en)
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  • In March 2019, a story gained traction on social media about a Connecticut man who devised a draconian strategy to live with his annoyingly chatty wife. According to the story, which originated from the website World News Daily Report (WNDR), the man feigned being deaf and dumb for more than six decades to avoid having to listen to his spouse. Then he got caught. The kicker is that his secret was found out, supposedly, when Dorothy Dawson saw a YouTube video of Barry singing at a karaoke bar. If all that sounds too outrageous to be true, good on you. It's all made up. World News Daily Report is a notorious purveyor of junk news, as the disclaimer at the bottom of each page attests: Articles on the website are often accompanied by images ripped from actual news articles on other sites. In this case, WNDR used photos of an actual Florida couple, married 67 years, whose 2017 divorce filing was newsworthy because of the vast real estate holdings to be divvied up by the court. (en)
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