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7 April Fool's Day historic pranks - Lilith7 - 01-04-2024
The great spaghetti harvest, washing of the lions & The Plutonion-Jovian are my favourites,
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/april-fools-day-pranks
1) 1957 The great spaghetti harvest
2) 1698 The washing of he Lions.
3) 1980 Big Ben goes digital
4) 1962 Colour TV, with a mesh sheet, Sweden.
5) Patrick Moore, the Jovian-Plutonion effect
6) Edison's miraculous machine
7) The volcanic eruption that wasn't.
RE: 7 April Fool's Day historic pranks - C_T_Russell - 06-04-2024
Sometimes April fools jokes get taken seriously.
Who remembers through the 1980s to the early 2000s a common sight to see was lemonade bottles sitting on the lawn full of water?
Everyone was doing it thinking it stopped dogs pooping on the lawn.
Turns out some radio host come up with the idea and made it into an April fools joke on the air and the rest is history.
RE: 7 April Fool's Day historic pranks - zqwerty - 06-04-2024
You still see a few bottles even to this day.
RE: 7 April Fool's Day historic pranks - C_T_Russell - 08-04-2024
I haven't seen one in decades, but no doubt there are some out there.