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April Fools!

Reader's Digest Canada

April 2023

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

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

This story is from the April 2023 edition of Reader's Digest Canada.

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