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My cheating ex found out I faked my death

by CopyPastaArchive August 18, 2022, 9:45 am

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People who have faked an orgasm, why did you do it?

by QuestionGuy June 3, 2022, 1:08 am

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TIL a man named John Darwin faked his death at sea for life insurance money and hid next door to his family home whilst he was presumed dead

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 8:23 pm

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TIL in the countersuit of Billy Mitchell by Twin Galaxies arcade over fraudulent high scores, there was a request for $3,333,360 in general damages- same number as the possible highest Pac-Man score- and $3,160,200 in special damages- equal to the sum of Mitchell’s faked Donkey Kong scores.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 10:13 pm

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TIL that Canada is so big that an enormous Pants-shaped rock formation was so unknown people assumed photos were faked.

by whatilearned April 15, 2022, 2:35 pm

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Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent

by HistoryBuff March 21, 2022, 8:26 am

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TIL of Minik Wallace, a Greenlandic child brought to New York in 1897 and studied by a museum, who held custody. After many of his companions died of tuberculosis, the museum faked a burial of his father and secretly put his skeleton on display. 20 years later, Minik would die in 1918 of influenza.

by whatilearned February 23, 2022, 12:06 am

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TIL According to his former manager, Travis Scott faked his soundcloud streams by using bots and then went to record labels and presented his fake numbers which helped him get signed.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 1:41 am

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TIL that an Italian man faked his own kidnapping in Syria in 2016 to get ransom money from Italian government but he was kidnapped for REAL and was released 3 years later after his kidnapping and after returning to his country, he was charged with fraud.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 8:23 pm

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TIL that famous researcher of behavioral economics Den Ariely cheated scientific community with fake reserach about honesty and lies. His study claimed that signing an honesty declaration before a test or interview would reduce lying. Recently it turned out that he faked all the data

by whatilearned August 22, 2021, 11:27 am

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TIL about Liliana Cáceres, the Colombian who in 1997 faked a multiple pregnancy of nine by stuffing her clothes with rags. This was her plot to prevent her boyfriend from leaving her. The woman drew the attention of her community and news outlets before discovering that it was all a lie.

by whatilearned August 1, 2021, 7:51 am

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TIL when the UN’s Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost.

by whatilearned June 30, 2021, 5:01 pm

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