Occasionally, against all odds, you'll see an interesting or even enjoyable picture on the Internet. But is it worth sharing, or just another Photoshop job that belongs in the digital trash heap? Check in here and find out if that viral photo deserves an enthusiastic "forward" or a pitiless "delete."

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Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman provided the Internet Mockery Machine with a perfect target this week when he prickishly harassed a Boston-area Chinese restaurant over a $4 bill discrepancy. By Tuesday evening, Edelman's asshole behavior against Sichuan Garden had been exposed, pilloried and apologized for, when the incident suddenly took a dark, racial turn.

On that day, Sichuan Garden received the above super racist email, purportedly from Edelman, which Boston.com published under the headline, "Ben Edelman Appears to Have Sent Racist Email to Chinese Restaurant Owner. Today." As quickly became clear, however, the message came from the restaurant's contact form (on which anyone could present themselves as "Ben" at "ben@benedelman.org") and not the professor's actual email account.

Late Tuesday night, Boston.com pulled the story, replacing it with a note reading, "We cannot verify that Edelman, in fact, sent the email." Edelman himself denied sending the stupid racist joke, telling The Boston Herald, "To my eye, the emails look like obvious counterfeits — formatting different from genuine emails from me, plus not the kind of thing I'd write. So far as I know Boston.com didn't try to confirm their authenticity before posting them."

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As first pointed out by @PicPedant and explained in depth by Factually, this supposed Germans vs. Brits football photo is of an entirely different group of war-bros chilling Top Gun-style. Part of Britain's "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION," pictured here are members of the Royal Army Service Corps footing around in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1915.

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Thousands of horny Redditors celebrated this picture of 2050's "average human" when it showed up online this week, furiously upvoting the image. Unfortunately, even our most optimistic futurists haven't actually predicted a Rashida Jones planet.

In reality, this photo was one many of portraits of real people taken for a October 2013 National Geographic feature highlighting our nation's mixed-race future, which, collectively, illustrated the increasing number of multiethnic Americans (with no specific year mentioned).

The misconception presumably came from a misleading Mic story titled "National Geographic Determined What Americans Will Look Like in 2050, and It's Beautiful," an article that could have just as accurately used a photo of Louis C.K.

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When this wonderful engagement announcement for "Buffalo Custardbath" went viral yesterday, sites across the Internet vaguely credited it to an unnamed "Australian newspaper." But that shortchanges the actual authors, attendees of the University of Sheffield who wrote the piece for the satire section of their student newspaper, Forge Press.

According to one student editor, however, the paper's staff is taking the misattribution pretty well, reportedly "enjoying the mythology arising from this piece."

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This one's actually pretty sad, so you're probably better off just trusting me when I say everything on the Internet was fake and horrible this week and you should stop reading here.

For the morbidly curious, the real cause of this ferret's grossly distended belly wasn't widdle baby weasels as originally claimed on Reddit, but fluid build up related to a partial heart collapse, an apparently fatal condition.

Below is a picture of an actual pregnant ferret, which, Leeder9000 helpfully notes, "Still looks like a ball sack."

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