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Hoax. Sad, but this is fiction Easterncedar 2 hrs ago #1

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Easterncedar

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1. Hoax. Sad, but this is fiction

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Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:48 PM

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I wondered because the US didn’t join the war in 1914.

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Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:57 PM

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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bicycle-tree/

Bicycle Tree

A photograph is said to show a tree that grew around a bicycle left behind by a boy who went off to war.

David Mikkelson
Published Dec. 29, 2012

Claim: A photograph shows a tree that grew around a bicycle left behind by a boy who went off to war.

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The "tree that ate a bicycle" on Washington's Vashon Island has been a popular destination for curiosity seekers for years, particularly for those who have read Berkeley Breathed's 1994 book, Red Ranger Came Calling, which was inspired by this arboreal oddity.

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However, the bicycle is not nearly that old, nor was it left behind by a young man setting off to take part in World War I. According to the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, the bicycle was left behind in the mid-1950s by a local resident who simply abandoned it:

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