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TIL the satirist Willie Rushton once pranked the Victoria and Albert Museum by placing a label next to a plug socket that read “Plug hole designed by Hans Plug (b. 1908)” which remained in place for a full year, even fooling the cleaning staff who began using an extension cable.

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