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BBC “Spaghetti Harvest” Ranks Among Top April Fools Gags
Written by Pats Papers | Sunday, 28 March 2010 10:50 AM
It was April Fools Day 1957 when the BBC caused a commotion with its joke about an early spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. In the Chicago Tribune today, writers Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer offer that and nine other things you might not have known about April 1st. Another classic was a 1994 story that Congress was going to make it illegal to use the internet while drunk.
BBC’s retrospective on the 1957 spaghetti prank.
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