Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work

Sometimes you have to bust out the ol' cork board and red string for a conspiracy theory involving leaked emails, supervillain islands, and heads of state desperate to deny they had anything to do with All That. But other times the conspiracy rabbit hole beckons in other forms. Like, say: