![]() While some people immediately realized that it was a prank, many didn’t - and weren’t that happy to realize that they were made the “butt” of a joke (see what we did there?).īritish people tend to take traditions and conventions very, very seriously. That is when Cottenelle tweeted out that, at last, left-handers were getting attention and respect they deserved by introducing the new ReverseRipple™ toilet paper. But have you ever heard of left-handed toilet paper? Nope - that is, unless you remember a glorious April Fools’ Day prank from 2015. You’ve heard of (and perhaps use) left-handed scissors, left-handed guitars, left-handed manual can openers, and so on. Boslough will go down in history for having pulled off one of the greatest pranks of all time. Some people were so incensed that they called Alabama lawmakers and demanded that they leave pi alone. As you might expect - or maybe even recall depending on your age - this caused an immense uproar. Well, in 1998 a physicist named Mark Boslough wrote that the Alabama Legislature attempted to pass a bill that would change pi to the Biblical value 3.0. In fact, some folks say that pi is the most important number in the universe (although Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans know that this distinction belongs to 42). Pi = 3Īll geeks know how pivotal pi (3.14159) is to geometry. Because television was such a recent invention, most people watching believed that it was 100% true. ![]() The announced pointed out that thanks to destruction of the awful “spaghetti weevil” and thanks to the great weather, the harvest was much better this year than in the past. On April 1, 1957, the BBC ran a segment on its ongoing TV series called Panorama about the Swiss spaghetti harvest. Below, we highlight some of the best (as in most ridiculous and epic) April Fools’ Day pranks of ALL TIME: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest So, if they really hate cats, pickles, and country music, then guess what you need to do? Yup, you guessed it!
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