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Ten Most Expensive April Fool Pranks Of All Time by eshietIntrepid(m): 12:00pm On Mar 31, 2017
*As we approach April 1st pranks day (April fool) tomorrow, lets look at ten most expensive pranks of all time around the globe.*

April 1, 1983: The Associated Pressreported that the mystery of the origin of April Fool's Day had finally been solved. Joseph Boskin, a Boston University professor, had discovered that the celebration began during the Fourth Century when Emperor Constantine jokingly appointed a court jester named Kugel as ruler for a day. As temporary ruler, Kugel immediately decreed that only the absurd would be allowed in the kingdom on that day. And so the tradition of April Fools was born.

Students once hacked the MIT website to say that Disney had bought the school for $6.9 billion as an April Fools Day prank.

Gmail first launched on April 1st, 2004. It was widely assumed the service was an April Fools Day joke

In Scotland, April Fools' lasts two days. Victims of pranks are called gowks (cuckoo birds). The second day is known as Taily Day, and pranks involving the backside are played. Supposedly, it is the origin of "kick me" signs.

In England and Canada, pranks are only played in the morning of April 1st.

On 1st april 2016: Sahara Reporters took to their Twitter handle to say, Buhari collapsed during a press conference and was rushed to the hospital where he was hospitalized.

During an interview on BBC Radio 2, on the morning of 1 April 1976, the astronomer Patrick Moore announced that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to take place. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would reduce the Earth's own gravity

The best known public prank is the 1957 news show broadcast by Panorama. It was a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. 

In Sweden, in 1962, there was only one television channel, and it was shown in black and white. The station announced that their "technical expert," Kjell Stensson, was going to tell people how to view color images on their black-and-white sets.
Re: Ten Most Expensive April Fool Pranks Of All Time by HQuadreal: 12:11pm On Mar 31, 2017
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Re: Ten Most Expensive April Fool Pranks Of All Time by PrinzCarter(m): 12:26pm On Mar 31, 2017
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Re: Ten Most Expensive April Fool Pranks Of All Time by Nobody: 12:27pm On Mar 31, 2017
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