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TIL that in the 1971 INDO-PAK war, BBC once mistakenly reported that Indian Air Force had air-dropped 5,000 soldiers,13 times more than the actual number of 384.The incorrect report scared Pakistan and hastened the surrender of Pakistani soldiers which eventually led to the liberation of Bangladesh.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 3:12 pm

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TIL The Welsh engineering firm Taylor & Sons, which was founded in 1875, collapsed after a typo by Companies House in 2009 mistakenly listed them as being wound up, by confusing them with another company, Taylor and Son, that really was failing.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 8:15 pm

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TIL “99 Luftballons” by Nena became an international hit by accident, after a DJ mistakenly played it instead of another song

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 6:00 am

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TIL cryptomnesia is an implicit memory phenomenon in which people mistakenly believe that a current thought or idea is a product of their own mind when, in truth, they have encountered it previously and then misremembered it. It’s also referred to as inadvertent or unconscious plagiarism

by whatilearned May 26, 2022, 1:24 am

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TIL Union General Philip Kearny devised the first unit insignia patches used in the U.S. Army in 1862, after mistakenly giving orders to soldiers not under his command. Afterward, his men wore a patch of red cloth to identify themselves as members of his unit. Other units quickly adopted the idea.

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 6:27 pm

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TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.

by whatilearned May 17, 2022, 8:00 pm

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your ex mistakenly sent $80,000 to your account and calls you to send it back how you reply?

by QuestionGuy April 26, 2022, 5:17 am

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TIL Samantha Josephson mistakenly entered a wrong vehicle after ordering an Uber and was stabbed over 100 times in the backseat. She couldn’t escape the vehicle because her assailant engaged the child lock mechanism for her doors. This incident sparked new laws and procedures to protect passengers.

by whatilearned March 18, 2022, 9:42 am

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TIL: That the term “Milquetoast”, meaning a timid person, is often mistakenly spelled as “Milk Toast”. But in a weird twist, the timid cartoon character of Caspar Milquetoast for whom the term is coined, was actually named after milk toast because of it’s blandness! So both terms are correct!

by whatilearned February 18, 2022, 8:02 pm

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TIL: The “Phantom Vibration Syndrome” is a condition in which people mistakenly think their phone vibrates in their pocket. It affects 90% (9/10 people).

by whatilearned January 26, 2022, 2:05 am

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TIL that the famous sculpture ‘Sleeping Ariadne’ was mistakenly identified as a sculpture of Cleopatra for a long time due to the snake bracelet worn by the subject.

by whatilearned November 27, 2021, 1:47 pm

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A text I mistakenly sent to my mom that was meant for my brother

by CopyPastaArchive November 24, 2021, 2:27 pm

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