The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.It is rather fitting that a nation that is famous for wooden shoes was given a piece of petrified wood passed off as a moon rock.
Rijksmuseum spokeswoman Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, said the museum will keep it anyway as a curiosity.
Thank goodness the prankster didn't give them a genuine Moon Tulip Bulb, or we could have had a real craze on our hands.
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