On April 1st each year, people from all over the world keep their eyes peeled for anything unusual or amiss.

Everything is suddenly treated with suspicion from social media post published by a popular fast food chain to that questionable looking Facebook announcement from the local police department.

Why? Well because it's April Fool's Day, a worldwide celebration where

you're either pranking someone or being pranked upon. No one knows exactly

how this unofficial holiday came to be. However, No one

peered with the official holiday came to be.

However, it has enjoyed a long and colorful history,

one peppered with extraordinary feats,

ridiculous ideas, and of course, outrageously hilarious pranks.

Without a doubt, the Swiss spaghetti harvest is one of the more infamous ones.

Thanks in part to the fact that it was successfully pulled off by a major news outlet whose

reputation was that of a trustworthy and serious platform that relayed only dry facts to the public.

On the 1st of April in 1957, the BBC, a news outlet based in London, aired a very curious segment on their current affairs

program, Panorama.

The three minute black and white video showed a group of people picking noodles off trees as a voiceover narrates how the Swiss region of Tachino was enjoying a fruitful harvest of spaghetti that year.

According to their narrator,

The last two weeks of March are an anxious time for the spaghetti farm.

There's always the chance of a late frost which, while not entirely

ruining the crop, generally impairs the flavor and makes it difficult for him to

obtain top prices in world markets. But now these dangers are over and the spaghetti

harvest goes forward. He goes on to describe how the village was seeing an exceptionally heavy

crop of spaghetti that year, all while accompanied by scenes

...