And in 2000, The Independent reported, Florida researchers developed Feralmone, a Viagra-like pill to treat them. Quicklist:title: Viagra for Animalstext: Pets get sexually frustrated just like the rest of us. The article was originally meant as a parody against legislative attempts to stop teaching evolution. The piece went viral online, and the Alabama legislature received hundreds of calls from irate protesters. But in the April 1998 New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter, physicist Mark Boslough wrote that the Alabama state legislature voted to change the value from 3.14159 to the 'biblical value' of 3.0. Quicklist:title: The Life of Pitext: Most people think of Pi - if they think of it at all, that is - as having a value of 3.14159.
On April 2, Burger King admitted that the new sandwich was a practical joke. The burger would contain the same ingredients as the regular sandwich, but would be redesigned to "fit more comfortably in the left hand." Both lefties and righties lined up for the new sandwich. Quicklist: title: Burger King's "Left-Handed Whopper"text: On April 1, 1998, Burger King announced the arrival of the Left-Handed Whopper. The voice of Nixon was, in fact, comedian Rich Little. Host John Hockenberry admitted during the second half of the show that it was all a big joke. Quicklist: title: Vote Nixon! text: He may have resigned nearly two decades earlier, but on April 1, 1992, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" reported that Richard Nixon was running for President again under the slogan, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." "Nixon" delivered a candidacy speech over the air waves, and listeners were not pleased. On April 15 - a week after publishing a second article about Finch's resignation - the magazine announced it all had been a hoax. Many people believed Finch actually existed. Impressively liberated from our opulent lifestyle, Sidd's deciding about yoga - and his future in baseball." The first letters of these words spell out "Happy April Fool's Day - ah (a) fib". The sub headline of the article read: "He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Quicklist: title: The 168-Mile Fastball text: Sidd Finch was a young pitcher who could throw a fastball over 168 miles per hour - or so Sports Illustrated claimed in a 1985 story by George Plimpton, "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch." Finch was allegedly raised in an English orphanage, had studied yoga in Tibet, gone to Harvard and was choosing between baseball and a career playing the French horn. "He seems to be taking this marathon to be something like the very long races they have over there." "But I have only been learning Japanese for two years, and I must have made a mistake," he said. The paper attributed the translation goof to "import director" Timothy Bryant, who had translated the rules and sent them off to Nakajimi. A number of people allegedly spotted him running in the countryside, though no one was able to stop him. Due to a translation error, he thought the length was 26 days, not 26 miles. According to the Apissue of the Daily Mail, Nakajimi had gone to England to compete in the London marathon. Quicklist: title: Longest Marathon, Evertext: It's tough being a foreign athlete, as Japanese long-distance runner Kimo Nakajimi learned. The BBC reportedly replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. Quicklist: title: A Spaghetti Crop Grows in Switzerlandtext: In 1957, the BBC News show "Panorama" showed footage of Swiss farmers harvesting pasta from trees, thanks to the elimination of the annoying "spaghetti weevil" pest. Here, courtesy of the Museum of Hoaxes, are some of our favorites April Fools Pranks. Others - like when Boston radio personalities Opie and Anthony announced that Mayor Thomas Menino had been killed in a car crash (he was very much alive) - have gotten a less enthusiastic reception. Some, like the " Taco Liberty Bell," have gone down in April Fool's infamy. Ap— - intro:It's that time of year again, when creative minds around the world devise elaborate ruses to punk the masses.
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