TIL the Cottingley Fairies—a hoax where two young English girls faked photographs of fairies near their home—went unconfessed for over 60 years partly because the cousins were embarrassed at having fooled Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, who publicly defended the photos as real.

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