Websites like Google and YouTube use April Fools' Day to prank the public with fake videos and announcements (like last year's Pokémon Challenge)—but they didn't start the trend.
On April 1, 1957, the British Broadcasting Corporation told viewers that there had been an “exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop” in Switzerland that year, due in part to “the virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil” (see the YouTube video above).
The BBC showed footage of spaghetti harvesters diligently picking noodles from trees. Some viewers were upset—but some called to ask where they could find a spaghetti bush.
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