TIL on April 1, 1980, BBC news ervice "reported" that the Big Ben will get a digital readout, and that the clock hands will be given to the first four listeners to call. Later on, BBC received a massive amount of phone calls from angry protestors, and ended up spending several days to apologize.

http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/big_ben_goes_digital



Submitted April 02, 2015 at 05:57AM by jasonty33 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/314twg/til_on_april_1_1980_bbc_news_ervice_reported_that/

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