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TIL in 2015, BMW New Zealand ran an April Fool’s ad promising a free car to the first person who showed up with their old car and ask for ‘Tom’. Tianna Marsh took the chance, arrived at 5:30 local time with her 15-year-old station wagon, and drove away in a $50,000 BMW with a ‘NOF00L’ license plate.

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