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P.T. Barnum passed off a monkey with a fish tail as the "Feejee _______"
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Mermaid
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The skull of a newly discovered species of human "Eoanthropus dawsoni", which turned out to be a human skull with an orangutan's jaw
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Piltdown Man
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Ray Santilli found old 1947 footage of this taking place at Roswell
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Alien Autopsy
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In fairness Robert Wilson never claimed that this photo of a toy submarine was really the...
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Loch Ness Monster
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This 18th century chess playing 'machine' was actually a human in disguise
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The Turk
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After a row with a religious extremist, a tobacconist created this famous hoax, buried it, and then dug it up again
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Cardiff Giant
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This word is aboriginal for 'I don't understand'
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Kangaroo
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A physics professor tests a scientific journal's publishing 'rigor', by sending a paper filled with nonsense
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Sokal Affair
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Dick Smith managed to pull one of these into Sydney harbor
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Iceberg
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On 1st of April, 1957, the BBC announced the discovery of this marvellous new tree
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Spaghetti Tree
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Jay Anson's controversial book about a paranormal house
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The Amityville Horror
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Did this US state get its name from a hoax?
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Idaho
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In 1983, this potentially lethal substance was found in the water pipes of Durand, Michigan
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Dihydrogen monoxide
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Probably the most famous type of hoax, signs of alien activity in fields
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Crop circles
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In the Pacific Northwest, this type of sea creature lives quite comfortably in trees
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Octopus
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This computer virus would spread via email and install Linux on your computer, that is if it existed
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Tuxissa
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Charles Redheffer was just one of several who invented one of these
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Perpetual motion machine
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A short-lived hoax that a hot-air balloon full of people made it across the Atlantic was concieved by this famous author
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The radio broadcast for this H.G. Wells story saying that aliens were invading wasn't the hoax, the hoax was that it caused mass panic
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The War of the Worlds
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This barely literate woman was head of science and research for Romania, and received hundreds of honorary diplomas and titles from universities around the world
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Elena Ceausescu
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