1. Tower of London Lions Wash

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Weiner added: "Perhaps the most famous was the 1957 broadcast by the BBC program Panorama, showing a family in Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a 'spaghetti tree'."

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5. Man Squeezes Into Bottle

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"In a parody of the so-called supergroup phenomena, rock journalist Greil Marcus wrote a positive review in 1969 of an album by a non-existent group the Masked Marauders

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8. London's Big Ben Clock

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