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Best April Fools’ Hoax: Spaghetti Harvest (1957)
Best April Fools’ Hoax: Spaghetti Harvest (1957)
Best April Fools’ Hoax: Spaghetti Harvest (1957)
The year was 1957.  Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.  A loaf of bread cost a mere $0.19.  Leave it to Beaver saw its television debut. Yes, I Googled all of that. One of the lesser known things to come out of 1957 was one of the greatest hoaxes of all time: the BBC's coverage of the Spaghetti Harvest in Ticino, Italy...