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Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed


For more than a decade, a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. His lies fooled newspapers, teachers and officials. Then a teenager flagged up something that everyone else had missed.


Huh! Next you'll be telling us that Jimmy Wales didn't invent Wikipedia! 😃

#interesting #funny #amusing #Wikipedia #hoaxes

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