A joke-free look at how AprilFools Day started
For hundreds of years, people around the world have been using April 1 as an excuse to play good-natured tricks and pranks on their friends, all in the name of April Fools' Day.
When people in France continued to celebrate the new year in April, either through ignorance or a refusal to accept the new calendar, they were teased by those who kept with the change as “April Fools.” Yet another disputed theory is that the origins stem from a line from Geoffrey Chaucher’s 1392 book The Canterbury Tales. “The controversy is over what Chaucer really wrote and whether there can be a direct link to April Fools' Day,” Simon J. Bronner, a professor of American Studies and Folklore at Penn State, told Time.
As reported by Vox, the first clear and documented mention of April Fools' Day didn’t occur utill the early 18th century after the line “Whence proceeds the custom of making April Fools?" appeared in the British Apollo magazine in 1708. Some of the most famous April Fools pranks down the years include Taco Bell announcing in a full page advert taken out in several leading U.S newspapers that they had bought the Liberty Bell in order to help reduce the national deficit.
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