Better to be approximately right then to be precisely wrong.

Unfortunately, the use of then instead of than (in Coffee News - North Coquitlam for April 2010's week 1) is precisely wrong.

You don't want to be struck by lightening. It can be 54,0000 degrees Fahrenheit; the first to reach the top was Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

This is from "Did you know..." in Coffee News - North Coquitlam for February 2010's week 3. First off, 54,0000 degrees? So it's either 54,000 or 540,000 - it's the reader's job to guess which, cuz that's how Coffee News rolls. 54,000 is the correct number. Then, the first to reach the top was Sir Edmund Hillary would be perfectly fine, but and Tenzing Norgay had to be added, so was should be were.