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Boing Boing, June 22, 2026

Phantom maps, moon men, and a rogue Tesla

Boing Boing
Jun 22, 2026
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Happy Monday! Today’s stories run from a man who has spent 60 years drawing a map of a place that doesn’t exist to the 1835 newspaper hoax that populated the moon with bat-men and unicorns. We’ve also got the Hollywood pseudonym every disowned film hid behind, a secret WWII engine plant buried under Budapest, and a Tesla that drove itself through a livi…

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