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As Time is flying and ‘April Fool’ Day is back, but do people still fall for it?

April Fool

As Time is flying and ‘April Fool’ Day is back, but do people still fall for it?

This day is actually custom of doing pranks and practical jokes, just to shout ‘April Fools!’ to people to expose the tricks, dates back through the centuries.

April fools origin has remain a true mystery, though most popular guess involves the reformation of France’s calendar in 1564 to change start from the March’s end to 1st January.

Those People who couldn’t keep up with the change and stayed true to ancient date for celebrating new year, had pranks played on them by tricks backs and calling them by names like ‘poisson d’Avril’ – April Fish – a term still used in France today.

Some other theories regarding this days are that the Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th century The Canterbury Tales, referred to the tricking by name fox rooster on 32 March, so that it would make it April 1st, hence it with people sent on pretend errands which continued from house to house, was not until the 1700s that April Fools’ spread throughout Britain, picking up particular trend in Scotland Country, where was identified as ‘hunting the gowk’ which mean ‘hunting the fool.’

Some famous pranks in the history was at Tower of London in Londoners in 1698 was invited to watch ‘annual washing of the lion’ where the earliest recorded references to the non-existent ceremony remained in tower.

The three-minute film on spaghetti farms in Switzerland where the pasta grew on trees, remains one of the most famous April Fools’ Day pranks featured by BBC’s 1957 Panorama, in that the segment said that, “due to mild winter and the virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.”

In this year Dyson has been forcefully denied that the noise breaker headphones, which includes dystopian looking air purifying device which contain a visor across mouth are April fool pranks.  According to the British tech firm “the innovative filtration system is designed to help