Not that I don't believe you, but how is that not being interpretted as a hash? It's in a double quoted string which should make it try to interpolate.
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Well, try the code below. If %bar were being interpolated as a hash, it would produce an error. Hash values are interpolated, but not entire hashes, at least not in strings that look like these.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $str = "this has %bar that looks like a hash";
print $str;
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