# Week 13: The Spaghetti Tree Hoax

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Podcast: [Half-Arsed History](https://stenobird.com/podcast/half-arsed-history-64122)
Published: 2026-03-25T20:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2204

## Resource

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.

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