It's the day of the year where people, newspapers, TV shows, and companies play practical jokes on the public.
Today we take a look at some of the best April Fool's Day jokes in history, and talk about what happens when they go wrong.
In today's episode we talk about:
Where does April Fool's Day come from?
The washing of the lions at The Tower of London
'The April Fish' (Poisson d'Avril)
How April Fool's Day works in the UK
Spaghetti Farming
Beer for tired Brits
Pluto and Jupiter causing a weird gravitational effect
The Gmail April Fool's Day
April Fool's Day in the era of 'fake news'
April Fool's Day in 2020
Key vocabulary: Origins, Practical jokes, Trace, Era, Tricking, Date back, Turned up, Prank, Keen, Proved, Mass media, Circulation, Biased, Engages, Embraced, Spot, Broadcast, Background, Alpine, Bumper, Harvest, Made up, Exotic, Dish, Ridiculous, Features, Pop culture, Convince, Prescription, Intravenous, Drip, Tube, Pint, Highbrow, Lowbrow, Astronomer, Unique, Gravity, Precisely, Floating, Sensation, Minion, Functionality, Funeral, So-called, Reflect, Shame, Spoils, Declaring, Increasingly, Fact, Fiction, Pull off, Turbocharge
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