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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark.html
UPDATE: Fixed link thanks to Typoz
This kind of feedback loop -- an error that appears on Wikipedia then trickles to sources that Wikipedia considers authoritative, which are in turn used as evidence for the original falsehood -- is a documented phenomenon. There's even a Wikipedia article describing it.
UPDATE: Fixed link thanks to Typoz
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