![]() ![]() ![]() Not only did Taco Bell claim it bought the historic landmark, but the fast-food chain stated it renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell. The Taco Liberty Bell – Back in 1996 Taco Bell had some April Fools’ fun by purchasing a full-page ad in six major US newspapers that announced its acquisition of the Liberty Bell. Soon the Alabama legislature was receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting its “legislation.” The article was written as a joke by physicist Mark Boslough in protest of Alabama’s attempts to alter the teaching of evolution in its schools.Ģ. The article found its way onto the Internet and was quickly emailed around the world. Alabama Changes the Value of Pi – The “New Mexicans for Science and Reason” newsletter April 1998 issue contained an article claiming the Alabama legislature voted to change the mathematical value of pi from 3.14159 to its “Biblical value” of 3.0. Thousands of viewers later admitted to falling for the hoax and taping pantyhose to their TV sets.ģ. The station’s “technical expert” Kjell Stennson even demonstrated the process during a news broadcast. All they had to do was pull nylon stockings over their TV screens. Instant Color TV – European television viewers were fooled again in 1962 when Sweden’s then-only TV channel, SVT-which was broadcast in black and white-announced that a new technology would allow viewers to convert their existing sets to color. Not ready to give up its hoax, the BBC told them to “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.” The “Panorama” broadcast is considered the first time television was used to stage an April Fool’s Day prank.Ĥ. Believe it or not, a ton of people fell for the prank, calling in to the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. ![]() The network even showed footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti off of trees. Therefore, farmers in Switzerland were enjoying a bountiful crop of spaghetti. Spaghetti Grows On Trees – In 1957, the BBC news show “Panorama” announced a mild winter had resulted in the elimination of the dreaded Swiss spaghetti weevil. WallStreetInsanity highlights five great April Fools’ hoaxes of the past 60 years:ĥ. What’s more unbelievable than the hoaxes themselves is the number of people who actually fall for them year after year. Since the advent of television and the Internet, people have been able to prank large communities instead of simply friends and family. The age of technology has allowed the tradition of April Fools Jokes to spread to the masses. According to folklore, some people at that time continued to celebrate the new year on April 1 and became the subject of jokes and pranks due to their foolishness, sparking the annual tradition which ultimately spread across Europe and eventually across the Atlantic to the New World. In fact, the practice dates back to 1582 when France first adopted the Gregorian calendar, which moved the observance of New Year’s Day from the end of March to Jan. People have been playing April Fool’s day pranks for literally hundreds of years. ![]()
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