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GUEST,Joe_F	BS: 100 top April Fool's Day Hoaxes! (18)	RE: BS: 100 top April Fool's Day Hoaxes!	02 Apr 06
In April 1975, Martin Gardner's column in _Scientific American_ listed six "sensational discoveries of 1974", beginning with a full-page illustration of a map that required five colors, and working its way up to a motor that would run on psi power if placed on a Bible or a copy of I Ching. Thousands of readers (all, one may presume, scientifically literate) either confirmed the results or took an absurd amount of trouble to disprove them. An exquisite natural April Fool trick was played on Boston in (IIRC) 1997. After an almost snowless winter, the city got about a foot and a half of snow on the night of 31 March - 1 April. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net \|\|: You're never too old to do something stupid. :\|\|

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