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Why the Pentagon banned Furbies

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The Pentagon actually believed a fuzzy, gibberish-spewing robotic gremlin was capable of high-level international espionage. Because the toy repeated words it 'learned,' deeply paranoid intelligence officials assumed these terrifying mechanical owls were secretly recording classified state secrets, leading to an official decree banning them from secure government spaces.

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