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TIL in 2013 the Pirate Bay faked moving its servers to North Korea. Various news outlets including NBC and ‘Business Insider’ reported the event as factual, without ever updating that it was a hoax.

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6EmaX TIL: Babies are born without kneecaps
Mewj0 TIL cuboid bone fractures are rare and are sometimes called "nutcracker fractures"
VrJ8 TIL Physics dictate that unless otherwise contained a river will never flow straight for a distance greater than 10 times its width. It has to do with the center flowing faster and the friction induced by the banks.
6A08 TIL Titanic’s fourth funnel was fake, added to make the ship look more powerful (and symmetrical). A bit like putting a dummy exhaust on a car.
eMED TIL - Actor Ed O'Neill, Al Bundy from Married with Children, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…In front of a shoe store