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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Spaghetti Hoax
On April 1st 1957 a team of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ journalists played an April Fool's joke on the British public. They used a serious news programme to air a feature about the 'harvesting' of spaghetti in Switzerland.
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Tue 1 Apr 2014
19:50GMT
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Online
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