TechScape: When Wikipedia fiction becomes real life fact

A close-up image shows a woman using the Wikipedia app on an iPad Photograph: Sascha Steinbach/EPA

Here’s a fun fact: the guy on the front of a Pringles can has a name – Julius Pringles.

Here’s an even funner fact: Pringles only started using that name in 2013, after Kellogg’s acquired the company and trademarked it – before using it in a half-hearted social media push involving Jimmy Fallon and then sort of forgetting about it for a bit.