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The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion is a text purporting to describe a plan to achieve global domination by the Jewish people. Following its first public publication in 1903 in the Russian Empire, numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proved the writing to be a hoax; notably, a series of articles printed in The Times of London in 1921 revealed that much of the material was directly plagiarized from earlier works of political satire unrelated to Jews.
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Sidd Finch: In 1985 George Plimpton wrote an article in Sports Illustrated about a New York Mets prospect who could throw a 168 mph fastball with pinpoint accuracy. This kid, known as "Barefoot" Sidd[hartha] Finch, had never played baseball before, and was attempting to decide between a sports career and one playing the French horn. He had reportedly learned to pitch in a Buddhist monastery. What was astonishing about Finch was that he could pitch a fastball at an amazing 168 mph, far above the record of a mere 103 mph.
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The Great Bank Hoax (1978): directed by Joseph Jacoby and starring Richard Basehart and Burgess Meredith. Plot Outline: When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.
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Alabama Changes the Value of Pi: The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the "Biblical value" of 3.0.
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Spaghetti tree: The BBC television program Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. A lot of people wanted spaghetti trees of their own.
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A Hoax To Live For by Dead Poetic
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Noodles In Fairy Butter (Recipe For April Fools Day)
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April Fools' Day is an of A poor silly fad? and I spy a droll oaf and Prod a silly oaf
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"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." (Mark Twain)
"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life even if you had an electrified fooling machine." (Homer Simpson)
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San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created in the spirit of April Fool's Day. An elaborate description of the nation, using puns and plays on words relating to typography (such as "serif"), was reported as straight news, apparently fooling many readers who did not understand the joke.
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