The BBC Once Ran An April Fools’ Day Story About Spaghetti Growing On Trees

April Fools' Day is when people try to mislead each other, sometimes the people you’d least suspect. Like how on this day in 1957, one of the world’s most steady and preeminent news outlets reported that spaghetti was growing on trees.

By |2025-04-01T09:12:58-04:00April 1, 2025|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

In 1906, Chicago’s Newspapers Told Everybody The City Was Being Attacked By Dinosaurs

It was probably more elaborate than your standard April Fools Day joke: today in 1906, the Chicago Tribune put together a two page "report," complete with pictures, about swarms of dinosaurs wrecking the city.

By |2025-04-01T09:13:29-04:00April 1, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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