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

unusual or a miss.

Everything is suddenly treated with suspicion from social media posts published by a popular

fast food chain to that questionable looking Facebook announcement in 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, 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 Tecino was enjoying a fruitful harvest

of spaghetti that year, according to their narrator.

He goes on to describe how the village was seeing an exceptionally heavy crop of spaghetti

that year, all while accompanying by scenes showing people excitedly pulling noodles

off tree branches.

...