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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 11 months ago by 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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[–] 3 points 11 months ago

Nice little bit of trivia for us.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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    • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I would have bet everything on popularity on mango beer somehow. But alas. Expo 88 is a bit too long ago for me, I would have been a toddler at the time.

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