Showing posts with label Museum of Hoaxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum of Hoaxes. Show all posts

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Elephants on acid, electrified corpses, insane Soviet scientists


The website Museum of Hoaxes offers the 20 most bizarre scientific experiments of all time-- and despite the website's name, these are real. Giving LSD to elephants, surgically creating a two-headed dog, coercing human subjects to deliver lethal electric shocks, electrified corpses, and much more in this catalog of cruelty and weirdness.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

The Foolingest day of the year



The Museum of Hoaxes lists the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. There are some brilliant ones in there, pulled off by such unlikely pranksters as the BBC, NPR, and Discover Magazine.

One of the BBC's best was the flying penguins.

Nothing from Fox News, but then again they've always been one giant prank all along anyway.

While visiting the Museum of Hoaxes website, you should try their Gullibility Test. If you answer all ten questions correctly, they will send you a million dollars!