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TIL about Msscribe. Someone who had the Harry Potter Fanfiction community fooled for years. Or, as this video described her, "one of the internet's most impressive liars"

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R7Klj TIL Casio was widely accused of false advertising after launching an ad where a hockey player used a g shock as a puck to demonstrate its toughness. However once a TV news channel replicated and verified the ads authenticity it gained popularity amongst the general public.
mx7Op TIL a US Air Force plane crashed into an elementary school in Okinawa, killing 11 children and injuring 156 more. The pilot ejected and escaped unharmed.
9vp6 TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
BrlAe TIL that C.S. Lewis died on the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, resulting in Lewis's death being overshadowed by Kennedy's.
rZn1 TIL that, in 2004, 21 percent of people aged 18 to 29 cited “The Daily Show” as where they learned presidential campaign news, even though the show’s own producers (including Jon Stewart) ridiculed the very idea of people looking to their programme as a primary news source.