Today is April Fools day. Personally, I don't celebrate this day -- never have, most likely never will.
But my curious mind wondered where the "day" came from so I did a little research.
Basically, the holiday for fools came about when countries adopted January 1 as New Year's Day -- previously it had been April 1st. So instead of paying calls and giving gifts on April 1st people did it on January 1st.
I don't know what is involved in changing a holiday but I would guess there were some people who didn't like change. (Surprise, surprise. :-)) Anyway it became practice to give "mock" gifts and play little pranks on the day formerly known as New Year's -- April 1.
For more info and some known pranks click here.
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