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For several hundred years the Tower of London was home to a menagerie of wild animals, including a number of lions that later became the basis of a hoax. Dawk’s News-Letter for April 2, 1698, announced: “Yesterday being the one April several persons were sent to the Tower of London to watch the annual lion-washing ceremony.” This fictitious event continued to attract gullible visitors. Indeed, 158 years later, in 1856, many bought tickets to attend the ceremony. They were unaware of the significance of the date, April 1, or that the lions had been moved to the London Zoo 21 years before.

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