Why Doesn't America Read Anymore? (NPR - 2014).Why Doesn't America Read Anymore? (NPR Facebook - 2014).How we made: BBC mockumentary Ghostwatch (The Guardian - 2020).The Ghosts In The Living Room (BBC Blogs - 2011).The true scale of the “panic” has been exaggerated over the years as the original broadcast would have only had had a relatively small audience. The Infamous “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke (Smithsonian Magazine - 2015).Greatest April fool stories - from spaghetti trees to Alabama changing Pi (The Telegraph - 2011).1957: BBC fools the nation (BBC On This Day).1957: The SPAGHETTI HARVEST | Panorama (BBC Archive/YouTube - 2022).Google reverses Gmail April 1 prank after users mistakenly put GIFs into important emails (TechCrunch - 2016).Introducing Gmail Mic Drop (Google Blog - 2016).Google’s Greatest April Fools’ Hoax Ever (Hint: It Wasn’t a Hoax) (Technologizer/ - 2013).YouTube Contest Submissions Closing Tomorrow at Midnight (YouTube Official Blog - 2013).YouTube's ready to select a winner (YouTube - 2013).YouTube 'Rickrolls' Everyone (Wired - 2008).Pokémon Go: The April Fools’ joke that became a global obsession (Washington Post - 2016).Become a Pokémon Master with Google Maps (Google Blog - 2014).Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge (YouTube - 2014).Google Search for your socks (Google Australia - 2016).No Foolin’: T‑Mobile Leads a Movement to Transform This April 1 from a Day of High Jinx to a Day of High Fives (T-Mobile - 2021). Thank a Helper, Be a Helper with #GiveThanksNotPranks (T-Mobile - 2020).We will donate $1 to for every tweet w/ #GiveThanksNotPranks” Tell us who you're thanking & tag + #GiveThanksNotPranks. “Today we're giving thanks, not pranks! Let's recognize the people that have given us smiles, comfort, & strength during this tough time. Everyone hates April Fools’ Day - so why does it endure? (The Verge - 2017).Why April Fools' day is utter crap (The Guardian - 2016).So to mix things up a little I'm taking this opportunity to announce I've decided to make another Monkey Island.” “For 18 years the Grumpy Gamer blog has been April Fools' day free because it's a stupid tradition. “If I ever get to make another Monkey Island, I'm going to announce it on April 1st.” The final result to me was, that I had to skedaddle, and keep dark for a time, until the affair had blown over a little.” In the midst of the turmoil some one spotted me to whom I had given an order of admission, and he would have set the whole mob upon me, but I most luckily succeeded in securing the friendly shelter of a cab, which I made drive off instanter from the field of action, knowing of old that discretion is, as a rule, the better part of valour. raging at the gates of the old City fortress. I verily believe there was a notion at one time of the day to send for reinforcements of the garrison, so threatening was the aspect of the B.P. They had the bits of pasteboard flourished in their faces, with angry gestures and angrier imprecations, by the indignant crowd of sight-seers and seekers. The "warders" were almost at their wits' end. They flocked up in shoals to see the lions washed. I must confess I, for one, was not prepared for the extraordinary credulity of the British Public. “We went to Tower Hill in the morning of the 1st of April - to watch the result. Quote from Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss in his Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian Washing the Lions (The Museum Of Hoaxes).ApWashing the Lions (Today In History - 2017).Felines in the Moat? The Great Washing of the Lions Hoax (Historic Mysteries - 2021).Who was invited to the annual washing of the lions at the Tower of London? (The Guardian - 2011).A Ticket for the Annual Ceremony of Washing the Lions, April the 1st, 1856 (Royal Armouries Collection).Includes quote: “And although April Fool's Day pranks are dead and do not belong in this century, people managed to let themselves fall for Ant and Dec's joke.” Deliveroo's April Fool's Joke Backfires After Customers Sent £400 Bill Email (LadBible - 2021).Deliveroo France Apology Tweet (Twitter - 2021).Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France after thousands of customers were sent fake £400 bills for pizzas they never ordered (Daily Mail - 2021).
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