April Fools!

A timeline of some of the world's most famous hoaxes

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1400s The Haunted Apple 

Thomas Betson, a librarian of Syon Abbey in Middlesex, England, moonlighted as a practical joker. He once trapped a beetle inside a hollowed-out apple, giving his fellow monks a fright when they believed that the moving fruit was possessed.

1957 Pasta Crops