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The spy signal that turned out to be fish

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A highly sensitive underwater listening net expressly meant to catch foreign submarines detected massively suspicious low-frequency rumbles. Entire massive fleets went on extreme alert before officials realized they were just monitoring enormous schools of herring aggressively expelling gas.

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