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MistyKnight
03/31/24 12:32:05 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax

Nineteen fifty-fucking-seven



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Tyranthraxus
03/31/24 12:35:46 PM
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hundreds phoned in the following day to question the authenticity of the story or ask for more information about spaghetti cultivation and how they could grow their own spaghetti trees; the BBC told them to "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

Lmfao

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CobraGT
03/31/24 12:44:07 PM
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Cute.

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divot1338
03/31/24 12:44:16 PM
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You could harvest the spaghetti by sticking a pitchfork into the tree and spinning it to wrap the spaghetti leaves around it.

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McMarbles
03/31/24 12:48:23 PM
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Spagghetti doesnt grow on
trees?

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Ricemills
03/31/24 12:52:14 PM
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Time to harvest my spaghetti https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/79a0e995.jpg

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Euripides
03/31/24 12:54:53 PM
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Silly, everyone knows that spaghetti is pooped out by Linguini Cows

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ai123
03/31/24 12:57:23 PM
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They also believed, in 1980, that dinosaurs were being genetically engineered in the English countryside:

https://youtu.be/66nHyNnJpOk

https://reprobatepress.com/2022/04/01/jurassic-mansion-the-bbcs-maddest-april-fool-spoof/

And in 1992, that a poltergeist had possessed a famous TV presenter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch

(That one was very controversial, and may have influenced a suicide).

The fact that people in those days trusted the BBC 100% made them easy targets.

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