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State workers' Wiki: breasts, beer and Lil' Kim
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f you haven't visited Wikipedia lately, you might be surprised to learn that Tampa native turned porn star Avy Scott does not have breast implants.
For this history-altering wisdom, you can thank someone at the Florida Department of Health.
By the grace of a computer user at the Florida Supreme Court, the world now knows that Yuengling is not only America's oldest beer maker, but that it produces the "finest lager brewed in this country."
And without the intel of someone at the Florida Department of Transportation, Saddam Hussein would be many things but not a "dumb motherf-----."
These Wikipedia edits and hundreds more were made by people using state-owned computers - all of which have come to light by a new Web site that tracks changes to the publicly edited online encyclopedia, which is run by a foundation in St. Petersburg. Story here.
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