Miscellaneous: april Fool's Hoaxes
Famous April Fool’s Hoaxes
April Fool's Day is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.
Some examples
The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the