The chant heard on playgrounds around the world contains an additional tribute to that most infamous liar of all, Pinocchio. “Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose as long as a telephone wire.”

Winston Churchill once said “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

In 1691, it was a crime to tell a lie or spread false news in

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