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"Allow me to address to you / With my deepest tenderness / This beautiful fish, fresh and discreet / To which I have confided my secret," says this April Fish card in French.
history

Why April Fools Day in France Involves Fish Pranks

It's a long and fishy history.
Amelia Parenteau March 31, 2024
A (much later) recreation of the <em>BBC</em> spaghetti-tree prank.
hoaxes

The Greatest Food Hoaxes of All Time

People have fallen for all kinds of culinary cons.
Anne Ewbank April 4, 2022
Gastro Obscura

Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout

What began as an April Fools' Day prank ended in a testicle-spiked beer.
Gefilte fish is usually eaten at Passover, and is traditionally made of fish such as carp and pike.
food

Help Us Solve This Gefilte Fish Mystery

Do you remember a spoof news segment about this traditional Jewish food?
Natasha Frost April 26, 2018
Mark Cline.
roadside attractions

Inside the World of Virginia’s Roadside Attraction King

For more than 30 years, Mark Cline has been keeping the state weird.
Eric J. Wallace April 1, 2018
Cowabunga!
rivers

The Wichita Frog Wave of 1906

You wouldn't want to miss it!
Cara Giaimo March 30, 2018
Nothing to see here, as you were.
plants

If You Wish for a Cactus Hard Enough, Can You Make It Real?

A long-lasting prank played by a German gardening journal seems to suggest you can.
Cara Giaimo March 29, 2018
This machine made music, not meat.
thomas edison

The Hoax That Claimed Thomas Edison Could Turn Dirt Into Food

Newspapers worldwide printed that he'd invented a miraculous machine.
Anne Ewbank March 28, 2018
"May I please speak to... Mr. Stiff!?!"
death

The First Prank Calls Were Surprisingly Morbid

Some things never change.
Cara Giaimo March 28, 2018
A rough day for Mrs. Tottenham.
history

Knock Knock. Who’s There? 2,500 Raspberry Tarts

The "Berners Street Hoax" took a common prank to extremes.
Cara Giaimo March 27, 2018
Snazzy.
universities

The Great Oxford Poop Prank

Don't you guano know what happened?
Cara Giaimo March 26, 2018
animals

Deer, Violence, and Videotape

When a deer ran over an aspiring rap artist on April 1, no one believed him. Until he got surveillance footage, that is.
Eric Grundhauser April 7, 2017
Great Blue Hill Summit
Milton, Massachusetts

Great Blue Hill

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.