Someone in Congress really has Wayne Gretzky's back

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Someone with a Congressional IP address noticed that NHL great Wayne Gretzky wasn't getting his props on Wikipedia — and did something about it

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A Twitter bot called @CongressEdits tracks anonymous Wikipedia edits made from Congressional IP addresses. On Wednesday morning, it noticed that someone with such an address made a change to Gretzky's Wikipedia page, the first result that shows up when you Google the hockey legend's name

It seems Gretzky's height was listed as 5 feet 10 inches on Wikipedia — until someone in the high reaches of U.S. government apparently decided to give The Great One a few more inches in stature, and boost his height up to an even 6 feet Read more...

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