Marcu
      30,
      2005
      :
     
     
      Friday
      is
      April
      Fool’s
      Day.
     
    
   
   
    
     
      Did
      you
      know
      on
      April
      Fool’s
      Day...
     
    
   
   
    
     
      Compiled
      by
      Man-Sum
      Yau
     
     
      Production
      Manager
     
    
   
   
    
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     
      The
      BBC
      television
      program
      Panorama
      ran
      a
      famous
      hoax
      (in
      1957),
     
     
      showing
      the
      Swiss
      harvesting
      spaghetti
      from
      trees.
      A
      lot
      of
      people
      wanted
     
     
      spaghetti
      trees
      of
      their
      own.!
     
    
   
   
    
     
      e
      In
      1962,
      the
      only
      Swedish
      television
      channel
      convinced
      many
      viewers
      that
     
     
      they
      could
      convert
      their
      black
      and
      white
      TV
      into
      a
      coloured
      one
      by
     
     
      simply
      stretching
      a
      nylon
      over
      the
      screen.
      (Colour
      television
      transmission
     
     
      didn’t
      start
      until
      Apr.
      1,
      1970
      in
      Sweden.)
     
    
   
   
    
     
      e
      The
      Dutch
      television
      news
      once
      reported
      that
      the
      famous
      Tower
      of
      Pisa
     
    
   
   
    
     
      had
      fallen
      over.
      Many
      shocked
      and
      even
      mourning
      people
      contacted
      the
     
    
   
   
    
     
      television
      studio.!
     
    
   
   
    
     
      e
      A
      Vancouver
      radio
      station
      successfully
      tricked
      many
      listeners
      into
      believing
     
     
      that
      the
      space
      shuttle
      had
      to
      do
      an
      emergency
      landing
      at
      the
      Vancouver
     
     
      International
      Airport.'
     
    
   
   
    
     
      e
      In
      1977,
      the
      British
      newspaper
      The
      Guardian
      published
      a
      special
      seven
     
     
      page
      supplement
      in
      honour
      of
      the
      tenth
      anniversary
      of
      San
      Serriffe,
      a
     
     
      small
      republic
      located
      in
      the
      Indian
      Ocean
      consisting
      of
      several
      semi
     
     
      colon
      shaped
      islands.
      The
      Guardian’s
      phones
      rang
      all
      day
      as
      readers
     
     
      sought
      more
      information
      about
      the
      idyllic
      holiday
      spot.
      (Sans
      seriffe
      is
      a
     
     
      reference
      to
      sans-serif,
      a
      family
      of
      typefaces.)
     
    
   
   
    
     
      e
      In
      1998,
      Burger
      King
      published
      a
      full
      page
      advertisement
      in
      USA
      Today
     
     
      announcing
      the
      introduction
      of
      a
      new
      item
      to
      their
      menu:
      a
      “Left
      Handed
     
     
      Whopper”
      specially
      designed
      for
      the
      32
      million
      left
      handed
      Americans.
     
     
      Thousands
      of
      customers
      had
      gone
      into
      restaurants
      to
      request
      the
      new
     
     
      sandwich
      (or
      the
      right-handed
      version
      if
      they
      were
      right-handed).
     
    
   
   
    
     
      e
      —_
      Readers
      of
      the
      Boston
      Morning
      Globe
      in
      1915
      could
      have
      purchased
     
     
      their
      papers
      for
      half
      the
      cost
      on
      April
      Fool’s
      Day
      if
      they
      had
      been
      alert.
     
     
      The
      price
      listed
      on
      the
      front
      page
      had
      been
      lowered
      from
      two
      cents
      per
     
     
      copy
      to
      one
      cent.
      But
      almost
      60,000
      copies
      of
      the
      paper
      were
      sold
     
     
      before
      anyone
      noticed
      the
      unannounced
      price
      change
      (which
      turned
      out
     
     
      _
      to
      be
      the
      responsibility
      of
      a
      mischievous
      production
      worker
      who
      had
     
     
      surreptitiously
      inserted
      the
      lower
      value
      at
      the
      last
      minute
      as
      the
      paper
     
     
      went
      to
      print).
     
    
   
   
    
     
      Sources-check
      out
     
    
   
   
    
     
      hs.
      -//www.answers.com/topic/april
      fool
      s
      ae
     
     
      http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/P90/
     
    
   
   
    
     
      for
      more
      April
      Fool’s
      Day
      hoaxes.
     
    
   
   
    
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     
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