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Epic (and illegal) college pranks that demanded advanced engineering degrees, weeks of planning, and cross-country logistics. We look at feats requiring custom equipment to steal a 1.7-ton cannon and complex assembly to build a police car replica atop a massive dome. These stories reveal what happens when brilliant, unsupervised minds choose hilarity over homework, proving that the greatest challenge is often the joke itself.

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This episode discusses technically illegal activities undertaken as pranks, including theft of property (The Caltech Cannon Heist), breaking and entering, public disruption, and a hoax involving claims of building a nuclear reactor which crossed into a public safety concern (The MIT "Reactor" Prank). The content is framed within the context of historical college traditions and engineering challenges.

Let's see what the world's been hiding.

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