frosty99c@midwest.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•The Refugee Olympic Team wins its first-ever medal, thanks to boxer Cindy NgambaEnglish
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1 month agoThe original draft probably said “nearly a 300% increase” and then the editor didn’t know the difference between percent increase and basic multiplication.
Also possible that there may have been multiple in the household if so many were printed and mailed out? Maybe they turned the real one in for the prize money and then kept a non-winning one in a scrap book? Memories over time are weird so they could’ve convinced themselves that they kept the real one