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A mermaid "documentary" once fooled so many people that the U.S. government had to issue a statement:

In 2013, Animal Planet aired Mermaids: The New Evidence, a documentaryor rather, a mockumentarythat "proved" the half-human-half-fish beings exist. And while the program was fake, plenty of the 3.6 million viewers that watched believed that the fictional claims were real. In fact, so many people were fooled that the U.S. government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a statement on its website addressing the confusion, saying: "Mermaids: The New Evidence is just entertainment. No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found."