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Please don't throw your mangoes away [during Brisbane World Expo 88] | Lateral game show with Tom Scott (www.youtube.com)
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During World Expo 88 in Brisbane, Australia, the city council took out full-page newspaper adverts that implored residents not to fill their rubbish bins with mangoes. Why?

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[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 0 points 4 months ago

Nice little bit of trivia for us.