01/04/2022
Hello everyone, today is April Fool's Day. Traditionally, it is customary to play everyone on this day, so today you should be careful to believe in anything. We want to present you to some of the greatest April Fools' pranks for all time
In 1698, people in London were told to go see the annual lion washing ceremony at the Tower of London. They went, but alas, there was no ceremony. This joke was so good and people liked it so much that visitors were informed about this event every year, and in the middle of the 19th century, jokers even began printing fake tickets. Hundreds of people came only to find out that they had been played.
In 1972, a widely published photograph convinced many that the elusive inhabitant of Loch Ness had finally appeared-unfortunately, more dead than alive. It turned out that a prankster from the Flamingo Park Zoo in Yorkshire dumped the body of a seal in a lake. He only intended to make fun of his colleagues, but the "news" quickly went viral.
In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were experiencing a record spaghetti harvest and showed footage of people picking noodles from trees.
In 1976, the BBC filmed another of its many April Fools' pranks. Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore told the audience that at 9:47 a.m. that day, the temporary alignment of Pluto and Jupiter would reduce Earth's gravity, allowing people to levitate briefly. Of course, at 9:48, hundreds of fascinated subscribers flooded the lines with messages that they were floating in the air.
In 1996, Taco Bell, a fast food restaurant chain, deceived people when it announced that it had agreed to buy Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and intended to rename it Taco Liberty Bell.
In 2008, the BBC again played everyone with a video about flying penguins. The trailer shows the Adelie penguins, the most numerous penguin species in the world, and claims that a colony of Adelie penguins with amazing skills has been discovered: to avoid the long and extremely cold Antarctic winters, they will have the ability to fly (again) won and moved thousands of kilometers to the rainforests of South America to overwinter there.
National Geographic also decided to participate in the fun in 2016. They announced via Twitter that "They will no longer humiliate animals by showing their photos without clothes." Readers who clicked on the story were greeted with "April Fools" and a gallery of delightfully dressed puppies and kittens.
