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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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8K48 TIL that the movie White Chicks was nominated for five Razzies, including the Worst Picture, Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay and Worst Screen Couple. Film critic Richard Roeper even put the film as the #1 worst film of 2004.
ZpE7Q TIL that in 1969, Richard Nixon had the White House Secret Service Uniformed Division's uniforms redesigned for formal occasions. The white with gold trim uniforms were widely criticized, and subsequently pulled from service. Many eventually wound up as Meriden-Cleghorn High School Band uniforms
8aX0X TIL that former Liberian President, Charles D. B. King, earned himself a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 243,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters.
OY8g TIL Musician Jim Sullivan recorded an album in 1969 called U.F.O. with cryptic lyrics about desert highways and strange lights. 6 years later he disappeared without a trace, his car abandoned on the desert road.
0woRA TIL that in early 1940, America sent a large research vehicle to the Antarctic which, when it arrived, was unable to move in snow and ice, except when driven backwards. The vehicle was eventually abandoned and has not been seen since 1958 due to ice shelf drifting and snowfall.