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April 1:
April Fools Day
In modern times, people have gone to great lengths to create
elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes. Newspapers, radio and TV
stations and Web sites have participated in the April 1 tradition
of reporting outrageous fictional claims that have fooled their
audiences. In 1957, the BBC reported that Swiss farmers were
experiencing a record spaghetti crop and showed footage of people
harvesting noodles from trees; numerous viewers were fooled. In
1985, Sports Illustrated tricked many of its readers when it ran
a made-up article about a rookie pitcher named Sidd Finch who
could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour. In 1996, Taco
Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it
announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia's Liberty Bell
and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1998, after
Burger King advertised a "Left-Handed Whopper," scores of
clueless customers requested the fake sandwich.
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