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Metric Time – 1975: An Australian news program claimed that the country would soon be converted to “metric time.” According to the new system there would be 100 seconds to the minutes, 100 minutes to the hour, and 20-hour days.
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The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest - 1957: The British news show Panorama, broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show's highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets. (Pic: BBC)
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San Serriffe - 1977: The Guardian published a supplement devoted to a fictional island nation San Serriffe. Many readers believed that this nation existed in reality.
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Instant Color TV - 1962: There was only one news channel in Sweden which broadcast in black and white. Kjell Stensson, station’s technical expert, announced on the TV that the viewers could convert their sets to display color reception. But the viewers had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen.
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