Four men have pleaded guilty to stealing $200,000 worth of textbooks from the George Washington University library and selling them off to students at a discount.

Anyone out there looking for a job in factchecking? If so, it sure sounds like Five Ponds Press could use a couple. Five Ponds is the publisher of a series of textbooks purchased by the state of Virginia which contain a multitude of errors — some laughable (like getting the year the U.S. entered World War I wrong), some not so much (such as the claim that “thousands” of black soldiers fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War).