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Greatest April Fools Day Pranks 1948 to 2009

April Fool's Day – a day when the more sociopathic among us are let loose to humiliate friends and colleagues, using 'sense of humour' as the perfect get-out clause. For everyone else, it signifies a ...More


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Water On Mars

The official NASA website posted a news story...

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Pinanas

The 1st April heralded the arrival of a delicious...

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Making the M25 a one way system!

Surely anyone who's been stuck in traffic on the...

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The Cerne Abbas Giant uses protection

The ancient chalk figure of the Cerne Abbas Giant...

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Smellovision

Judging by what's on TV these days, I'm not sure...

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The Channel Tunnel won't join up!

The News of The World reported that French...

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Holidaying at the Palace

In 2009, this advert appeared on the...

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Whistling Carrot

Tesco gave carrot sales a boost when they claimed...

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Britain Rules The Skies

The Guardian published an April Fools Day article...

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Spring Cleaning – For The Internet

An updated version of the classic 'phone line...

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Guinness Mean Time

Guinness chose to prey on a Millennium-focused...

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Hat Growth

Soldier magazine ran a story claiming the bearskin...

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Rogue Bra

The Daily Mail was up to its April Fools Day...

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Metric Time

Australian news show This Day Tonight was...

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Richard Nixon

"Solutions are not the answer."

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Marathon Task

The Daily Mail ran a story in 1981 claiming a...

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Big Ben Goes Digital

In the '80s, a digital watch was cutting-edge...

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Pi Number Change

Pi – 3.14159... and so on isn't the most easily...

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Nessie Found Dead

Not actually Nessie, but the carcase of a bull...

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Gravity Drop

Patrick Moore managed to get BBC Radio 2 listeners...

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San Serriffe

As a nation, our geography is, let's face it,...

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Colour TV Tights

Back in 1962, Sweden tricked the nation into...

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The BBC's Spaghetti Harvest

Possibly one of the most famous April Fool's Day...

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The Left-Handed Mars Bars

There's no doubt about it – it's a right-handed...

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Dutch Elm Disease

While the deviousness of Attenborough might have...

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Virgin UFO

In 1986, Virgin tycoon Richard Branson built a hot...

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The Musendrophilus

Surely the one person you can trust in these...

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