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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, today is April 1st, otherwise known as April Fool's Day. |
0:05.0 | And the interesting thing about it is they really don't know where it came from. |
0:09.3 | Some believe that it was linked to the Roman festival of Hilaria. |
0:13.3 | There's also another Indian celebration that gets partial credit. |
0:17.5 | They say that it emerged during Renaissance Europe, |
0:20.2 | and the first time it really ever appeared was in a Flemish poem in 1561 about prank-filled errands. |
0:28.8 | But otherwise, they really don't know exactly how it all began. |
0:32.3 | But you're going to see a lot of it today. |
0:33.7 | People are going to be playing their own little pranks. |
0:35.7 | One person said, my favorite is I bring in an empty Dunkin' Donuts box for the office. |
0:39.8 | Oh, damn. |
0:44.5 | That's cold. |
0:46.0 | I missed it. |
0:46.9 | That is cold. |
0:48.7 | You can go a step further when they open up a bunch of ants in there. |
0:52.4 | Or vegetables. |
0:54.5 | You can really mess with it. |
0:56.8 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
0:58.4 | And it is a terrible day. |
0:59.7 | If you've got really big news, one person said, yeah, 20 years ago, my mom told the whole |
1:03.1 | family she was pregnant, not realizing it was April Fool's Day. |
1:06.0 | And then so she had to do the whole big announcement the next day. |
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