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18 outlandish rumours that went around every school in the 2000s
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1. Drinking too much Sunny D turned you orange
2. Marilyn Manson had two ribs removed so he could, er… pleasure himself
3. Blue Smarties were banned because they made kids way too hyper
4. Each colour of these bracelets indicated a different sex act, and if you broke one you had to DO IT *gasps*
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5. Drinking Lilt would lower a man’s sperm count
6. Red Bull contained sperm from a bull (lots of sperm concerns in the 2000s)
7. GAP, the slogan plastered on those hoodies that were so popular at the time, stands for ‘Gay And Proud’
8. Those gooey alien yokes would reproduce at the turn of the millennium
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And now for the celebrity death hoaxes:
9. Kenan or Kel – it could be either one, depending on who told it – was killed in a car crash (not true)
10. Eminem also died in a car crash, and was replaced by a clone (not true… probably)
11. Art Attack was cancelled because Neil Buchanan died of a heart attack (thankfully not true)
12. The kid who sang “They’re gonna taste great” in the Frosties ad killed himself shortly after it began to air (also not true, he’s grand)
13. A couple ‘from another school’ wanted to have sex but they didn’t have a condom, so they used a Tayto bag
14. If you regularly drew all over your hands with pen, you’d get ink poisoning
15. Those tiny red bugs you saw on concrete walls were called blood suckers because they SUCKED YOUR BLOOD
16. You could ‘teach’ a Furby to say anything you wanted by repeating it over and over again
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17. There existed a ‘brown noise’ that made whoever heard it soil themselves immediately
18. And there was always, always, some delicious food stuff that people claimed could ‘give you cancer’. Walker’s Crisps, Coke, basically everything nice ever
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