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Day of Jokes


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

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.


Can you spot the April Fool stories on this page?




Spaghetti Trees * Left-handed Burgers * Gravity Loss

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