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Researchers at Central Missouri State University announced this week that they'd discovered the largest known prime number, which is expressed as 2 to the 32,582,657th power minus one. But they had to retract their findings. It turns out you get the same number by multiplying the ages of Mark Brunell and Drew Bledsoe.
Unless either Brunell or Bledsoe is one year old, the product of their ages cannot equal a prime number. Now if you had said that it was the sum of their ages, then you get both mathematical accuracy and comedy gold!
