In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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Evanston Township High School in Illinois played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. $1,000 was collected in 3 days.
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Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.
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On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a 7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San Seriffe."
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