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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)

submitted 2 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/brisbane@aussie.zone

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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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[–] coaxil@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought for so long he was part trolling them and referring to the Milton mango, as just an insane amount of beer had been drunk

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

That would definitely have been within the spirit of Lateral!