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TIL on Halloween 1992, a BBC mock documentary "Ghostwatch" was mistaken for a real one amongst most of its 11 million UK viewers (receiving 20,000 complaints about its scary content), and was never broadcast again after that experience

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MY7B TIL that St. Bibiana is the patron saint of hangovers
xV8Gw TIL that in the aftermath of a car crash that had killed 5 people, two similar looking blond girls were mistaken for one another. One girl was buried and mourned, while the other was hospitalised but unable to communicate due to her injuries. Five weeks later, the mistake was realised.
ADjWn TIL that Pringles aren’t actually chips!! It was ruled in a UK court in 2008 after they found that Pringles are actually only 42% potatoes.
5NDn TIL the oldest surviving spears in the world are some 300,000 years old and not even made by Homo Sapiens
rRQyW TIL that the Northern Inuit Dog, along with its offshoot breed lines the Tamaskan dog, the British Timber dog and the Utonagan, is a breed of dog developed from a 1980s breeding project in the United Kingdom with the objective of producing a dog breed that resembles wolves.