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He supposedly weighs 282 pounds and has a 38 inch neck.

Flesh-eating bananas In 1999, as both the new and apocalyptic Y2K glitch loomed, tensions were high.

One that should most definitely be included as a genuine deliberate hoax was the fossil that National Geographic got all excited about, linking some feathered fossil to a previously unfeathered fossil cannot remember the exact details only to discover after a big splash on TV and in the magazine, that it was a hoax from China, being made up of two unrelated fossils.

This one plays a bit on people's fears of losing their health and is an example of how one can use this fear to cause mass hysteria on the internet.

By mid January, BuzzFeed falsely reported that Michael Cohen had told Special Counsel Robert Mueller President Trump personally instructed him to lie to Congress.

The , a 1994 hoax claiming that had acquired the.

This is what happened in 1997, people were asked to forward an email to their contacts for testing a new email forward tracking system powered by Microsoft.

, a fictitious film-critic created by in order to place good quotes on ' film advertising• For a few seasons, students ran grease along the train tracks before Georgia Tech games, making it impossible for the train to stop anywhere near the station.

What about Sarah Palin and her "Wild ride" from Texas to Alaska while leaking amniotic fluid, driving to an out-of-the-way clinic and birthing a premature Down Syndrome baby with a hole in his heart and then appearing with him at work 2 days later? In the ensuing excitement, believers shouted down deniers, and in December 1912, the Geological Society of London hosted a ceremony where Dawson presented his fossil, the Piltdown Man.