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Minnesota Vikings unintentionally troll the Bank of England

It’s not very often that unintentional trolling happens. Usually, when this happens online, it is on purpose and the only goal is to upset or frustrate the target. However, the Minnesota Vikings put a pretty good trolling on the Bank of England recently without even knowing it.

You see, the Bank of England was doing some research. They were trying to determine how much bank customers were fearing a bank run (mass withdrawal of money from the financial institution) by gathering data from social media sites like Twitter. You see, on September 18, 2014 there was a big fear that many folks would withdraw their money and go to Scotland, where rumblings of them wanting to become free from their UK family through the Scottish independence referendum.