April 01, 2025
On April Fools’ Day in 1957 the BBC televised a story about a family that grew and harvested spaghetti. The program showed women plucking wet spaghetti from trees and laying the noodles out in the sun to dry. Spaghetti was not a well-known dish in the United Kingdom at the time, and many viewers were fooled.
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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 Was Sci-Fi Passed Off as News
On August 25, 1835, the New York Sun began running a satiric story about life on the Moon. The problem? People believed it.
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