Some of History’s Best April Fool’s Day Pranks
No one is really sure why April 1st became the day for pranks, but it has been around a long time and isn’t a recent phenomenon. People have been pranking each other in one form or another as far back as the 1500s. Here are just a few of the more notable April Fool’s Day pranks.
Left-Handed Whopper
Burger King turned the hamburger world upside down when it introduced the “Left-Handed Whopper” in 1998. The company took out a full-page ad in USA Today, declaring to the world that it had developed a burger for the left-handed set. The ad explained how the new Whopper was the same as the original, but the ingredients had been rotated 180-degrees, thereby distributing the contents of the burger for the benefit of left-handed customers. Burger King revealed that the new burger was a hoax the next day, much to the chagrin of lefty-paying customers everywhere.
Man Flies By Lung Power
A photograph of a man flying by using nothing but the air from his lungs ran in many American papers in April 1934. The new invention was used by a German pilot named Erich Kocher, and he had a box attached to his chest…
