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unusual facts about April Fool



1951 Scottish Grand Prix

The event was not to be repeated although the re-introduction of the Scottish Grand Prix was the subject of an April Fool.

Charles de Jaeger

He is best known as one of the creators of a famous April Fool's Day joke from 1957: a 3-minute spoof report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest beside Lake Lugano broadcast by the British current affairs programme, Panorama.

Gailen David

On April 1, 2013, Savvy Stews ran an April Fool article claiming that David, Laurie and "Sassy Stew" Shawn Kathleen had been selected as flight attendants on Lindsay Lohan's private jet.

Jerome L. Walton

Jerome L. Walton is the name of a fictitious American science fiction author whose career was described by Steven H Silver in the 1999 April Fool's edition of SF Site, a science fiction and fantasy review Web site.

Mortal Kombat 4

In retrospective, GamesRadar criticized the endings for the Nintendo 64 version of the game using a compilation from them for an April Fool joke, labelling them as hilarious due to their poor quality.


see also

April Fools' Day

In 1508, French poet Eloy d'Amerval referred to a poisson d’avril (April fool, literally "April fish"), a possible reference to the holiday.

Doreen Tracey

She appeared on several television shows, including the episode "April Fool" (April 1, 1959), of ABC's The Donna Reed Show, with James Darren in a guest-starring role as well.

Electron User

Often the April-dated edition of the magazine included an April Fools' Day joke, generally consisting of a short machine code type-in listing which claimed to do something extremely useful and of wide interest but which in fact printed APRIL FOOL on the screen.

Mary of Egypt

In John Berryman's Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry The Dream Songs, poem 47, subtitled "April Fool's Day, or, St. Mary of Egypt," recounts Mary of Egypt's walk across the River Jordan.

Ochoco Dam

In 1999, the dam was the subject of an April Fool's hoax from radio station KSJJ, a hoax that the magazine Time listed among its '"Top 10 Shocking Hoaxes"', along with the balloon boy hoax, 1938 The War of the Worlds radio hoax, and the 2010 Georgian news report hoax.

Rachel Reynolds

During the 2011 April Fool's Day episode, the event was recreated as a joke when Reynolds once again crashed a Ford Mustang into a breakaway version of Stage Door 3.

Seacons

Piranacon appears in the 2008 April Fool's comic "Shattered Expectations" by Fun Publications.