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That reminds me the pamphlet stating that cows milk would turn when a train passes too close to them.
This commercial had people thinking spaghetti grows on trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZtGoXkI58
The BBC did an April Fools day joke along these lines too. Perhaps one is based upon the other.