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Old 22 October 2009, 05:30 PM
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Icon27 The Net's Most Heinous Hoaxes

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Most online hoaxes are mildly annoying, and a few are hilarious. But propagating a false Amber Alert over Twitter? Plastering an epilepsy forum with flashing images? Not cool. We'll take a look at some of the Web's most heinous hoaxes over the years, and sprinkle in a handful of amusing ones.

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In 1897, the Indiana House of Representatives passed a resolution to change the value of pi to 3 -- luckily, irrationality prevailed and the bill died in the state Senate.
That one took me a second to catch.
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