On April 1st, people around the world play pranks for April Fools’ Day. Here are some well-known April Fools’ Day pranks.

In 1957, the BBC in the United Kingdom played a hilarious prank on viewers. During a broadcast, it was announced that Swiss farmers were enjoying a bountiful spaghetti harvest. A video showed farmers plucking strands of spaghetti from trees. Many viewers were fooled and wanted to grow their own “spaghetti trees.”

In 1965, a newspaper in Copenhagen, Denmark, reported that a new law had been passed. This law required all black dogs to be painted white. Citizens immediately began to oppose the law, not realizing that it was, in fact, just an April Fools’ Day prank.

Later, in 1976, BBC Radio played a memorable April Fools’ Day prank. This one was invented by an astronomer who claimed that a space phenomenon would affect Earth’s gravity. He encouraged listeners to jump to experience the reduced gravity. Of course, when the listeners jumped, nothing out of the ordinary happened.

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