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Apr 01 2018159 Spaghetti Trees

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Joe Streckert in EpisodesTagged Food, Hoaxes

On April 1st, 1957 a BBC One news program ran a straight-faced and ostensibly real report on Switerzerland’s spring spaghetti crop, and convinced some of their viewers that spaghetti grew on trees.

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