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Median Strip Farming
(April Fool's Day - 1967)
The Swiss news show
Antenne
reported about a farmer in the Canton of Nidwalden who had received permission from the Department of Agriculture to use the median strip of highways as farmland — for grazing cows and planting crops.
April Fool's Day, 1967
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