April Fools' Origin

SMU Associate Professor Dr. Owen Lynch says there is no exact date that April Fools' day became a "thing," but it may go all the way back to medieval times. He says the BBC in London, had one of the first mainstream pranks when it broadcast a story about the "pasta tree."

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