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Here are some interesting things you may, or may not know, about April Fools’ Day.

Google Smells
Last year, Google’s prank involved a new product, Google Nose BETA, which was marketed as a product to help users search for smells. The feature incorporated smells into Google’s search function and boasted 15 million scentibyte database of smells. They explained that in this world, sometimes we don’t always have the time needed to stop and smell the roses, but with Google, they are just a click away. Many had their noses on their screens hoping to get a whiff of the action, but instead, they just looked like fools as they leaned in and got nothing but a nose smudge on their screens.

BBC fooled the nation
Twenty years earlier, the BBC fooled the nation with a spoof documentary broadcast about spaghetti crops in Switzerland. The documentary “featured a family in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest…carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry.” Apparently, millions were duped–calling in to ask how they could grow their own spaghetti trees.

“Taco Liberty Bell.”
On April Fools’ Day in 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in seven leading U.S. newspapers announcing their purchase of the Liberty Bell, which they purportedly renamed the “Taco Liberty Bell.” At noon on the same day it was revealed that the story was a hoax.

The Washington Times