In 1967, a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.
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A fake chess-playing machine named the ‘The Turk’ spent nearly 84 years travelling around Europe and the America’s defeating the vast majority of its challengers, including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin.
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Gmail was announced around midnight on 31st March and initially believed to be a hoax, as a free 1GB email service was previously unheard of.
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