Editorial corrections are typically boring—little notes explaining that a fine detail, like a date or the spelling of name, was slightly off and needed to be fixed. Though they’re important to identify, they’re also usually not particularly interesting. Journalist Cleuci de Oliveira, though, has been curating a Twitter thread of the times when this isn’t the case, highlighting the very best in reporters making inadvertently hilarious mistakes.
Among these gems are delightful fuck-ups on a wide array of topics that extends from religion to pop culture, the latter of which is shown best in a Brazilian magazine’s mischaracterization of a politician as a big-time Pixar fan rather than an amateur student of Russian literature.
Elsewhere in the arts world, we find a jazz “tenorist” referred to as a “terrorist” and the kind of My Little Pony naming errors bound to have enraged hundreds of adult men on the internet. There’s also a valuable clarification regarding nipples and some in-depth work clearing up errors related to Tolkien weaponry.