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Mar 2020
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Offbeat History: The Great Moon Hoax of ...

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The second part of this offbeat revisit! As the New York Sun's series of astonishing moon discoveries concluded, most people recognized that it was a hoax. But what made people buy into the tall tale in the first place?

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