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TIL Wikipedia had an entry with a list of proven conspiracy theories. They have deleted it and automatically delete all attempts at making new one. Here is an archive of the deleted list.

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8a184 TIL the aeroplane was invented just 4 years after the car was (1886 -> 1890)
WnN8 TIL an arctic expedition to the ‘hollow earth’ was planned for 2007, only being cancelled because of the leader’s death
Brb0x TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.
E1KwP TIL CIA Operative Edward Lansdale tricked Filipino Hukbalahap rebels by making it appear that vampires were Killing Their Members In The Jungle
YrPP TIL that taste is spread throughout the mouth, and the idea that you taste sweet or sour on different areas of the tongue is based on a misinterpretation of a graph reporting one experiment in 1901