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Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes: US museum
Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes: US museum
From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history. picked by smarty1052 2 years ago
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 icepigs
2 years ago
Some funny stuff!
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 heymrp
2 years ago
-- In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "Biblical value" of 3.0.

My favorite!
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 Sushi
2 years ago
« heymrp : -- In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "Biblical value" of 3.0.

My favorite!
Indiana is the source of this 'hoax'. They nearly passed it, actually, in 1897.
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 TheStep
2 years ago
Where's the Google hoaxes? They're usually fun.
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 suebe
2 years ago
How about the infamous Opie and Anthony radio stunt (info from wiki):
The duo was fired in April 1998 from WAAF for an April Fool's Day prank involving Mayor Thomas Menino. Opie and Anthony told their listeners Menino died in a fiery car accident while vacationing solo in Florida.

Many believed the story, leading Menino to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, as the FCC prohibits the broadcast of knowingly false information if it causes public harm [4].

WAAF suggested that the duo have pies thrown at them while being held in town square stocks. The idea was summarily dismissed by the mayor's office. Facing a possible license challenge, WAAF fired them, but Opie and Anthony promised that they would return to Boston and get revenge.[5]
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 Sushi
2 years ago
« suebe : How about the infamous Opie and Anthony radio stunt
Boardroom Jimmy says that that wasn't a prank at all.
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