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Strapped into enormous metal penguin feet, he marched along the beach after dark. By sunrise, baffled locals discovered the tracks and swore they belonged to a 15-foot penguin. Some said they spotted it, while newspapers splashed the story across the nation. The footprints kept returning for years, and scientists later examined them, with a few arguing they were genuine animal tracks. But decades later, the man finally admitted it had all been a prank designed to fool absolutely everyone around