Love hoaxy stuff, and trivia of hoaxs

[shunyadragon]

The first ten are a nice start. The comments are worth reading too.

Source: http://discovermagazine.com/2014/april/23-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-hoaxes

1. Marco Polo’s famous 13th-century account of Asia is an encyclopedia of hoaxes, describing unicorns and a solid gold palace.

2. The claim that Polo introduced noodles to Europe is also a hoax — though more plausible than the first televised April Fool’s prank: In 1957 the BBC showed spaghetti being harvested from trees. Many viewers inquired where to buy a spaghetti plant.

3. Another hoax: that the April Fool’s tradition began with Renaissance calendar reform, when the new year was moved from April to January, and those ignorant of the switch were mocked. Small problem: The old Julian calendar started in January, too.

4. The real originator was Julius Caesar, who reserved April 1 to ridicule political enemies. They assassinated him on the Ides of March to avoid the annual ignominy.
5. Et tu, readers? In 1995, Discover ran an April Fool’s story about the fictional hotheaded naked ice borer, provoking a record amount of hate mail. Nineteen years later, we still receive the occasional angry note warning us not to try that kind of funny business ever again.
6. At least we never took a page from Aristotle’s Masterpiece, a hodgepodge of classical medical texts and folklore falsely attributed to the great thinker. The manual hoaxed women into believing their children would be deformed if they even pondered adultery.

7. The first hoax you ever perpetrated was as a fetus, when you tricked your mother into giving you more food by releasing vast quantities of hormones that her body believed were her own.

8. And children only get more devious after they’re born — if they’re smart. In lab experiments, the frequency with which toddlers lie correlates with their intelligence.

9. Some 37 percent of American voters believe global warming is a hoax. [About the same number that consider Evolution a hoax.]

10. You can predict whether people think climate science is a hoax based on whether they believe in conspiracy theories, according to a 2012 University of Western Australia study. Conspiracy theorists dismiss many scientific findings, such as the connection between HIV and AIDS.

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[klaus54]

1) Marco Polo invent polo.

2) Earth is younger than the stars and both are under 10,000 years old.

K54

[shunyadragon]

5. Et tu, readers? In 1995, Discover ran an April Fool’s story about the fictional hotheaded naked ice borer, provoking a record amount of hate mail. Nineteen years later, we still receive the occasional angry note warning us not to try that kind of funny business ever again.

I personally enjoyed this and other hoaxy articles in April issues of some science magazines in the 90s.

[shunyadragon]

1. Marco Polo’s famous 13th-century account of Asia is an encyclopedia of hoaxes, describing unicorns and a solid gold palace.

2. The claim that Polo introduced noodles to Europe is also a hoax — though more plausible than the first televised April Fool’s prank: In 1957 the BBC showed spaghetti being harvested from trees. Many viewers inquired where to buy a spaghetti plant.

On of the biggest hoax is that Marco Polo ever went to China. He had the reputation of being the biggest liar in Venice. He failed to mention the Great Wall.

[Duragizer]

Now I feel the urge to read Marco Polo's account.

[shunyadragon]

Now I feel the urge to read Marco Polo's account.

He also described a city made of gold in China.

[Cerebrum123]

1. Marco Polo’s famous 13th-century account of Asia is an encyclopedia of hoaxes, describing unicorns and a solid gold palace.

2. The claim that Polo introduced noodles to Europe is also a hoax — though more plausible than the first televised April Fool’s prank: In 1957 the BBC showed spaghetti being harvested from trees. Many viewers inquired where to buy a spaghetti plant.

On of the biggest hoax is that Marco Polo ever went to China. He had the reputation of being the biggest liar in Venice. He failed to mention the Great Wall.

I don't see how failing to mention the Great Wall would put his testimony into question. The other stuff yest, but not this one. Why would he specifically have needed to mention it?