April Fools Day - Don't Be Fooled
By Anna
@LadyDuck (483935)
Italy
April 1, 2019 7:52am CST
Today is the day you can expect fake news (okay there are every day) and pranks from friends.
I want to share some old pranks that have reached the target to "fool" people:
In 1976, the BBC announced that Jupiter and Pluto would be in a rare alignment at 9:47 am and that would diminish the earth’s gravity.
All those who would leap at that very moment, would have experienced a floating sensation. Hundreds of people called to say they felt it.
In 1965 always the BBC, announced the experimentation of a new technology called "Smell-o-vision" allowing the transmission of odors over the airwaves to all viewers.
You cannot imagine how many viewers called the BBC to report that the trial was successful.
In 2007, they repeated an online version of the hoax and it again worked.
In 1962, Swedish TV broadcast a 5-minute special to show people how to get color TV by placing a nylon stocking in front of the Black and White TV. Thousands of people tried it.
In 1998, Burger King published an ad in USA Today, to announce the new "Left-Handed Whopper" sandwich designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans.
The new whopper had the same ingredients as the original, but it had "all condiments rotated 180 degrees, to redistribute the weight so that the bulk of the condiments will balance to the left, reducing the amount of spilling out the right side of the burger."
YES, people believed also this one.
Have you a nice famous prank to share?
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91 responses
@ptrikha_2 (48390)
• India
2 Apr 19
@LadyDuck yes pranks like the alignment of Jupiter and Pluto are hard to disbelieve.
So there are chances of being getting pranked especially by the news channel.
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@ptrikha_2 (48390)
• India
14 Apr 19
@cacay1 yeah even when it is not April Fools Day.
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@owlwings (43902)
• Cambridge, England
1 Apr 19
My favourite has always been the video of Italians harvesting spaghetti from trees:
The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of ...
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@1hopefulman (45113)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
So, what does that say about people? 
I'm still trying to find the button that doubles our earnings today. Have you spotted it?
I'm still trying to find the button that doubles our earnings today. Have you spotted it? 8 people like this
@jaboUK (64348)
• United Kingdom
1 Apr 19
Those all sound like fun. There was another famous BBC one where they claimed to have found spaghetti growing on trees. Today the owner of the poetry site I'm a member of published an article inviting people to submit their poems, and they would be in line to receive $20,000. Dozens of people fell for it, but not me.
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@jaboUK (64348)
• United Kingdom
13 Apr 19
@DeborahDiane You're very kind Deborah
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@DeborahDiane (40593)
• Laguna Woods, California
11 Apr 19
@jaboUK - I'm so glad you are part of a poetry site! Some of your poetry will live on in the future. It deserves to be read by future generations.
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@DianneN (247157)
• United States
1 Apr 19
I've heard of some of these, and had to chuckle at the gullibility of some people. I don't know many pranks, but read that someone at Walmart put a snake in the lettuce section. Another one is to paint clear nail polish over a bar of soap. Dumb stupid pranks. 
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@GardenGerty (165853)
• United States
1 Apr 19
Some people will believe anything.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
1 Apr 19
A Danish company delivers fast food to people's houses. One year they wrote that they had chosen to use horses instead of cars because this was cheaper and better for the environment.
One year new 20 kr bills had just been introduced in my country. There was a picture of two birds on the bills. In a newspaper they wrote that the bills were counterfeit if one of the birds was missing a leg. They asked people exchange the counterfeit bills in the bank. Lots of people waited in line at the bank. They all wanted to exchange their bills. But the bills where one of the birds was missing a leg weren't counterfeit. They were supposed to look that way
In 2008 there was a story saying that Denmark had sold Greenland to the US.
In 2008 there was a story saying that Denmark had sold Greenland to the US.4 people like this
@ptrikha_2 (48390)
• India
2 Apr 19
@Porcospino horses instead of cars is quite interesting.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
2 Apr 19
@LadyDuck There are many funny ones. Every year some people believe them, and that leads to some funny situations sometimes. I didn't have time to read the news yesterday, but they probably did one this year as well.
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@arthurchappell (44987)
• Preston, England
1 Apr 19
The famous BBC Spagetthi Harvest on the BBC, and BBC radio DJ Ken Bruce being replaced for the day by an impressionist pretending to be him
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@arthurchappell (44987)
• Preston, England
3 Apr 19
@LadyDuck there was also the That's Life Lirpa Loof (read it backwards) a supposedly newly discovered bird that had purple droppings - it may be still on Youtube - many people fell for it
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@LadyDuck (483935)
• Italy
3 Apr 19
@arthurchappell This is also funny, I am going to check YouTube.
This is also funny, I am going to check YouTube.1 person likes this
@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
1 Apr 19
I am getting married on June 8, this year. yes!!!
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@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
1 Apr 19
@LadyDuck ohhh haha. congratulate me now.. or should i wonder if you sincerely congratulating me and not pranking me. hmmmm...
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@LadyDuck (483935)
• Italy
1 Apr 19
@Mavic123456 I am not pranking. CONGRATULATIONS.
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@LadyDuck (483935)
• Italy
1 Apr 19
@simone10 Make an experiment, go somewhere where there are people and look at a point in the sky. It's better if you have a friend with you. Talk to your friend and say "can you see it? Look right here, there is a form hiding behind that cloud..." You will see how many will look up and some will start to say "you are right, i can see something".
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@PainsOnSlate (21846)
• Canada
1 Apr 19
I can't think of any silly thing happening but I'm sure they did. Thanks for the laugh.
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@allknowing (154000)
• India
2 Apr 19
Coming from "reliable" sources one would surely be taken for a ride.
I was fooled by my maids once when they told me early in the morning that the bush that I so adored had fallen on the ground and all flowers whithered. You can imagine the rest.
I have also fooled many . One comes to mind. I told one of my colleagues that there was a visitor waiting for her in the Reception I saw her rushing to the rest room, doing herself up and then getting back when the Receptionist told her that there was no visitor 
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
1 Apr 19
Yes I have read a lot of pranks in the news today.
I do but that was not an April Fools Prank but the War of the Worlds prank years ago.
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@Juliaacv (55174)
• Canada
2 Apr 19
@LadyDuck Yes, that one was my favorite also.
I had a good day at work today. It was very busy, the end of the month and the beginning of the month are busiest for the bank. But the time flies by so quickly and we are only expected to answer primary needs only, no advise offering or conversations regarding things that aren't on accounts. So quick and lots of calls.
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@Fleura (32665)
• United Kingdom
1 Apr 19
The only one I really remember was when a radio station announced that the UK was now switching to decimal time, with ten jours in the day, 100 minutes to the hour etc. They gave all the time-checks in decimal time, it was quite funny and almost convincing.
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@andriaperry (118725)
• Anniston, Alabama
2 Apr 19
No just mine, I got my sister best saying her house door was open and the mangy dog next door was in her bed.
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