Did the Fruit of the Loom logo ever have a cornucopia in it? Or is your brain tricking you?

BY FAST COMPANY

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The internet is good for plenty of things, but perhaps its most underrated value is its ability to turn an absolute nothingburger of a question into a worldwide search for truth.

Case in point: the great Fruit of the Loom logo mystery.

Earlier [last year], the fact-checking website Snopes published a deep-dive investigation into whether or not Fruit of the Loom’s logo has ever featured a cornucopia. It is a question that has rankled internet denizens for the past couple years after a photo popped up that purportedly shows a vintage T-shirt with a faded Fruit of the Loom logo—cornucopia and all.

Snopes found that despite this questionable photographic evidence, the company’s logo has never had a cornucopia in it. Further, Snopes argues, this seems to be a case of the internet suffering from a distinctly online ailment called the “Mandela effect,” which describes the........

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