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TIL In 2012, the NOAA was forced to publish that Mermaids weren’t real. This was due to a Sci-Fi program on Animal Planet claiming that a Mermaid’s body had been found on a beach. Some believed it and contacted the NOAA, making them state: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,".

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