Episode

Week 13: The Spaghetti Tree Hoax

Podcast: Half-Arsed History
Published: Mar 25, 2026
Duration seconds: 2204
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Summary

This week in history we’ve got the origin of gerrymandering, the renaming of Constantinople, we’ve got the birthdays of composers and scientists and painters, and we’ve got the time the BBC convinced half of Britain that spaghetti grew on trees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.