One social media post proclaimed: Humans gone; Earth heals! In the pictures, canals in Venice, crystal clear, are hosting dolphins.
In another post, elephants stroll through fields in China, getting drunk on corn wine.
Well, mostly not true, according to National Geographic.
Dolphins have never been in the Venetian canals and they aren't now either. Although the canals do have clean water.
Elephants aren't strolling or getting drunk. No one can identify those pictures, but they aren't about the current crisis.
But if you heard swans were in the canals, that's true. Of course, swans have always been there.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
