Being li'l naughty, playing a prank on someone, confusing people with riddles and brain-teasers... everything's fair when it comes down to April Fools' Day ! So reach out to friends/ family/ loved ones with funny and humorous April Fools' Day cards. Have a day fool of fun and joy !

April Fools' Day Hoaxes

Who doesn't love to laugh ? And on April Fools' Day, you've more reasons to ! Now of course you'd love a good joke, more when it isn't on you; but that joker that's in all of us will get the 'get-up-and-go' on every April 1. This day of the year, the April Fools' Day, gives you the liberty to unleash your clownish selves as best as you can or want it to. And, however much you try to avoid getting fooled, you can always be caught off-guard. You're bound to hear someone's self-satisfied chuckle or a loud guffaw of "April Fool" when you've been had. That's April Fools' Day, the first day in April ! No matter what the prank or the trick, you're likely to get away with almost anything on April Fools' Day. So go ahead and enjoy the practical jokes, pranks and the hoaxes of times ! But just remember, all your brains and brilliance would fall short of ensuring an escape for you. Big or small, fat or slim, spare no one--fool them all on April Fools' Day because if you don't, they will.
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Originally, practical jokes on April Fools' Day were a one on one pranksters' fun, but for quite some time now, the media has been in the driver's seat, and here are some of the famous April Fools' Day hoaxes that really got people confounded for a while:
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The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest: One of the earlier April Fools' Day hoaxes pulled by the media was in 1957 when the BBC news show Panorama announced on April Fools' Day, that thanks to a very mild winter, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. There was footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Viewers were taken in, and many 'April Fools' called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees !
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Instant Color TV: In 1962, there was only one TV channel in Sweden and it broadcast in black and white. On April Fools' Day, the station's technical expert announced a newly developed technology that would enable all viewers to easily convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen and watch their favorite shows in color ! There were thousands of 'April Fools' in Sweden that day !
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I'm floating, are you ? In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM on April Fools' Day, a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event would occur and that listeners could experience it in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment of this planetary alignment, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, they began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation ! Can you beat that ? Ever heard of the flying April Fools ?

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