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Hoaxilla #361 – The Man from Taured – HOAXILLA®

Summary by hoaxilla.com
In 1954, a Caucasian man was arrested at the airport trying to enter Japan because his passport was unidentified and the issuing country was unknown. When he was shown a map so he could say where he was from, he pointed to Andorra and called it "Taured." He couldn't understand why no one knew about this country, which he believed had existed for 1,000 years. He was taken to a hotel, and two police officers guarded his room while the case was fur…
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hoaxilla.com broke the news in Heidelberg, Germany on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
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