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. Plus: today in 2015, someone played an April Fools Day joke on the community of Winters, California, installing an old parking meter in town. BBC’s 1957 April Fool’s “spaghetti-tree hoax” is more relevant than ever (Ars Technica)The Lonely Parking Meter (Atlas Obscura)No fooling, our backers on Patreon make this show possible