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TIL that a group of reporters submitted a computer generated fake 'research' paper to a scientific journal... and it was published.

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Lk88P TIL that a woman was jailed for killing her two infants soon after their birth as chances of natural death happening was 1 in 73Mil. She was released after 3 years after finding out that math was faulty and it hadn't considered genetic or environmental factors. She died soon of mental trauma.
MenRb TIL in 1961 the entire U.S. figure skating team died in an airplane crash - causing a mandate still in effect that no team travelling to international competition would be allowed to fly together ever again
MegVB TIL that doctors in the past used to taste the patient's urine to diagnose various diseases. If the urine tasted "wonderfully sweet as if it were imbued with honey or sugar" it was a sure sign of diabetes.
Y7MOd TIL when the skeleton of Richard III was unearthed, it was mistakenly announced that they found an arrowhead in his spine, when this later turned out to be a nail from the Roman era that coincidentally happened to be in the soil.
R7NPa TIL that Adam Savage admitted he was mistaken, and that credit card companies had nothing to do with Myhtbusters not airing an episode on RFID chips