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78 Hoax Sparked Spiritualism Craze

How a Hoax by Two FACT*oids anyway, as kind of participation

Sisters Helped Spark the trophy.

Spiritualism Craze - According to scientists, 40 percent
of people have a first memory that - The main source of food for coral
didn’t really happen. is fish urine.
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-In France, the 1975 movie Jaws - Largest number whose name only

“That I have been mainly instrumental in was called Les Dents de la Mer, or has one syllable is twelve.
perpetuating the fraud of Spiritualism “The Teeth of the Sea.”
upon a too-confiding public, many of you - Astronaut comes from two Ancient
already know. It is the greatest sorrow of - Six million years ago, otters were Greek words that translate to “star
my life.” Yet for believers, the news was sailor.”
as big as wolves.
not necessarily a blow to spiritualism’s

credibility.
- That’s using their heads: In the late - All the air on Warth weighs 11

“There are a lot of situations in which 1800’s road crews in Argentina quintillion pounds.
spiritualist mediums were caught faking, filled in potholes with sheep heads.
committing fraud, or spiritualist mediums - Dolphins will allow other trusted
made declarations similar to [Maggie’s - There are about eight billion fog adult dolphins to babysit their
confession],” says Simone Natale, a children.
particles that would fit in a
professor at the University of Turin in
teaspoon.
Italy and author of Supernatural
- A quarter of the world’s hazelnut
Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism crop is used to make Nutella.
and the Rise of Modern Media Culture. - Qatar Airways has a rule limiting
“But these never really stopped people six falcons to a plane’s economy

from believing it." class section. - There are more hot springs in
Yellowstone National Park than in
It isn’t clear what motivated Maggie to the rest of the world combined/
- The original prototype for the
confess that it had all been a hoax in
television set was called a
1888, nor is it clear why exactly she - Stomach acid can burn a hole
recanted that confession the next year. “shadowgraph.”
through human skin.
Regardless of Maggie and Kate’s true
feelings about their careers as mediums, - Athletes who finished outside fo

the spiritualist craze they had unwittingly the top three in the 1896 Olympics There are more FACT-oids in this
helped start continued to be popular well were awarded a bronze medal edition of The ‘X’ Chronicles.
into the 20th century. []