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April Fool's Day

Day of Jokes


April the 1st is known as April Fool's Day in the English-speaking world. It is a day people when people traditionally play jokes. There are often false stories in the newspapers and on the television and radio.

April Fish

In most countries April fool's jokes usually happen before midday. In France, for example, you have 'April Fish'. Children try to secretly pin paper fish on to each other.

Nobody knows how April fool's Day started. Perhaps it was to celebrate the start of spring.

Here are some famous April Fool's Day Jokes:

  • The BBC produced a spoof April fool's' documentary about 'spaghetti trees'
  • Burger King introduced a left-handed burger.
  • A famous British astronomer made a very strange radio announcement about gravity on April 1.







Activities
Spaghetti Trees
Left-handed Burgers
Gravity Loss