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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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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