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Someone once convinced millions of Americans to buy a rock in a box. Not a magic rock. Not a rare rock. Just a regular rock, nestled in wood shavings, with a straight-faced instruction manual for "training" it. The joke worked precisely because it wasn't trying to be anything else. But when did this gloriously stupid idea hit stores?
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