TIL for April Fools Day in 1957, the BBC created a hoax in which they convinced the nation that spaghetti was grown from "spaghetti trees" in Italy and Switzerland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax



Submitted December 27, 2014 at 09:03PM by sassinator1 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2qjbb1/til_for_april_fools_day_in_1957_the_bbc_created_a/