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Top 100 Hoaxes of All Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slashdot-not-a-winner dept.

Kaz Riprock writes "Did you know that Taco Bell bought the Liberty Bell? Or that Spaghetti grows on trees?? Here is a pretty interesting website that compiles 100 of the best hoaxes perpetrated through the ages."

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  1. April Fool's by Bueller_007 · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is the top 100 April Fool's hoaxes of all time, not the top 100 hoaxes of all time.

    Huge difference.

  2. Dihydrogen Monoxide by shane_rimmer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where was Dihydrogen Monoxide?

  3. MIT Hacks by i22y · · Score: 4, Informative

    While not directly related to April Fool's Day, one cannot forget MIT Hacks. Some of the best pranks I've seen in awhile.

    Notable is the Campus cop car on the Great Dome...though they're all great.

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    Mike
    1. Re:MIT Hacks by tbmaddux · · Score: 3, Informative

      ... except that Caltech beat MIT soundly in the top 10 college pranks listing with the #1 slot going to the Rose Bowl hoax and #3 going to the McDonald's contest brute force attack. MIT showed only at #10 with Bonsai Kitten.

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      Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
  4. Re:What about the 100 best trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The first Slashdot troll post investigation

    As far as I can remember, it had more then one thousand mod points.

  5. Re:Some hoaxes based on reality by superyooser · · Score: 2, Informative
    he he
    The hoaxers fell for an urban legend. The Bible doesn't say that pi is 3.0.

    PI in the Bible

    "The Bible says pi = 3."

    Does the Bible say pi equals 3.0?

    Does the Bible Give a Wrong Value for Pi?

    I see four major issues in the relevant Scripture:

    1. We don't know the exact length of a cubit.
    2. We aren't sure of the complete geometry of what was being measured.
    3. The Scripture is giving measurements of real-world objects, not presenting a mathematical theorem. If the numbers seem wrong to us, we're not understanding what was being measured.
    4. We don't know what kind of rounding, if any, was being used.