The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a 7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San Seriffe."
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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