10 Things You Didn’t Know About April Fool’s Day

by (▪‿▪)DoctorWhoGuru(▪‿▪) Posted 2012/03/30 03:21:45

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1. No one knows how it started
2. The holiday’s name mostly like came from a French holiday called “April Fish”
3. The man who invented almost every novelty gag in history turned down one of the biggest: the Whoo
4. The CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar
5. The original recipe for fake vomit is a closely guarded secret
6. Johnny Carson kept a rubber chicken and a gag arrow behind his desk for almost the entire run of
7. The Seattle sketch comedy show ‘Almost Live!’ made viewers believe that the Space Needle collapse
8. A report about a loose python in Google’s headquarters on April 1st wasn’t an April Fool’s Day jo
9. A lot of people thought the murder of Marvin Gaye was an April Fool’s prank
10. The Scots and the French invented the “Kick Me” sign