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* ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]'' is full of this, especially in the "Were You Aware Of It?" segments. Among other things, there's a fifty-first state inhabited by thunderbirds, and hobos tried to conquer the United States during the Great Depression.
** Continued in ''[[More Information Than You Require]]''. Thomas Jefferson got the idea for the Declaration of American Independence from mole-men, air conditioners were invented to make Brooklyn more violent, and [[Jonathan Coulton]] was created in a lab to be the ultimate destroyer of cats. There's a reason the series is called ''[[Complete World Knowledge]]''.
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* Scott Adams of ''[[Dilbert]]'', in his book ''The Joy of Work'', lists several to try out on [[Too Dumb to Live]] co-workers, such as "French is exactly the same as Spanish, except with more words for cheeses."
* [[The Remarkable Millard Fillmore]] claims that Fillmore saved Andrew Jackson from assassination, wrestled with the emperor of Japan, and invented the t-shirt. If you check Amazon you'll see it has a three-star rating, due to complaints that it is "deceptively advertised" as an accurate biography. The cover illustration of Millard Fillmore riding a unicorn is apparently not enough of a clue.
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* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|Cliff Clavin]] from ''[[Cheers]]'' was chock full of these. It's a [[Self-Demonstrating Article|little known fact that "it's a little known fact" was practically his catchphrase.]]
* Doug from the redecorating reality show ''Trading Spaces'' series did this at least once when they started doing "family" versions of the series involving families with young children. When dealing with fabrics, he asked, with a completely straight face, if the kids had ever seen "a wild nylon".
* ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'' had the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150127025050/http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/two/facts.html "It's A Fact" Girl], who would not only relate but demonstrate her Little Known Facts.
* [[Saturday Night Live|DeepThoughts]] with [[Jack Handey]] bounced back and forth between this and simple inane musings.
** "If you met two guys on the street named Flippy and Hambone, which one would you think would like dolphins more? You'd guess Flippy, right? Well, you're wrong. It's Hambone."
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** Also applies to facts about The Stig.
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S1/E07 Introduction to Statistics|Introduction to Statistics]]", Jeff's first pick up line aimed at Slater consists of an intentionally erroneous one of these.
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' have used these on [[Twitter]] to make fun of dubious statements by political figures.
** After Senator Jon Kyl said his claim that abortions constitutes well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does was "not intended to be a factual statement," [[Stephen Colbert]] created the hashtag #Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement for this trope.
** After [[Sarah Palin]] got Paul Revere's story wrong, ''The Daily Show'' created the hashtag #According To Palin for intentionally erroneous historical facts.
** After Herman Cain said "I don’t have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration", ''The Daily Show'' created the hashtag #idonthavefactstobackthisup for this trope.
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