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The BBC pulled off 'the biggest hoax in news history' 69 years ago today
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The Best April Fools' Hoax Ever
The fake news report presented a family in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland gathering a bumper spaghetti harvest after a mild winter and “virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.”Credit: Robert Couse Baker from Sacramento California CC BY-2.0 To a large extent, most TV audiences today wouldn’t fall for a story that spaghetti grows on trees. But that wasn’t the case in 1957 when spaghetti wasn’t widely known in Britain and on Ap…
Hihi. The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools‘ Day 1957 by the BBC current affair tree, broadcast at a time when this Italian did not want to eat in the UK and some Britons were unaware that spaghetti is a pasta made from wheat flow and water. Hundreds of viewers phoned into the BBC, either to say the story was not true, or wondering about it, with some even asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees. …
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