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False teeth hoax tops Dutch fish tale now revealed
Amsterdam AP reports a prank about missing teeth found in a cod became a national hoax. Cor Stoop lost his upper plate at sea last September on a North Sea charter. A joke by taxi driver Roel Pool led to media coverage before a dentist exposed the ruse.
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