The popular myth-busting website Snopes once trolled TLC on air! How?

The popular myth-busting website Snopes once trolled TLC on air! How?

Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed is an American docudrama about urban legends and re-enacting them and researching their credibility. It aired on TLC from 2002 until 2004.

The show once made an error concerning Blackbeard’s credibility. On the episode that originally aired on March 13, 2003, there was a true or false question before a commercial break that gave an incorrect answer when the program resumed.

The question was "Was the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence' used as a code to recruit pirates?" The answer was given as "TRUE: The notorious pirate, Blackbeard used this code to recruit hands, whom he paid sixpence a day." This is untrue, and was in fact a red herring created by Snopes.com to test people's common sense.

Snopes found it rather humorous that the show could fall for such a silly story and created a page on the website about it. Without realizing their folly, and failing to recognize Snopes, subsequent airings "fixed" the mistake.

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