It�s 1st April and once again we are back on celebrating April fool�s day.
But this year, why not do something different.
Of course I know you want to play pranks on your friends but do you think you are the
only one who can pull it off.
So, today let�s try to look into some of the biggest pulled off pranks.
Hello Everyone, I am Divyanshu.
You are watching Boost Your Brain and in this video I am going to tell you top 5 biggest
and funniest ever pulled off pranks in history.
So, let�s begin.
Number 1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest On April 1st 1957, the respected BBC news
show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter Swiss farmers were enjoying a
bumper spaghetti crop.
It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti
down from trees.
Huge numbers of viewers were taken in.
Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
To this the BBC diplomatically replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce
and hope for the best."
Even the director-general of the BBC later admitted that after seeing the show he checked
in an encyclopedia to find out if that was how spaghetti actually grew (but the encyclopedia
had no information on the topic).
Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment
ever pulled".
Number 2: Instant Colour TV On April 1st 1962, Sweden's SVT brought their
technical expert, Stensson, onto the news to inform the public that, thanks to a new
technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display colour reception.
At the time, there was only one TV channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white,
so this was big news.
Stensson explained that all viewers had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv
screen, and the mesh would cause the light to bend in such a way that it would appear
as if the image was in colour.
He proceeded to demonstrate the process.
Thousands of people were taken in.
Many Swedes today still report remembering their fathers rushing through the house trying
to find stockings to place over the TV set.
SVT attempted its first colour broadcast four years later, in 1966.
Regular colour broadcasts were begun in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
Number 3: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity On April 1st 1976, there was this early morning
interviews on BBC Radio 2 going on.
During this interview, the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced that at 9:47 AM that
day, a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur.
Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, and this planetary alignment would temporarily counteract
and lessen the Earth's own gravity.
Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment the alignment
occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation.
When 9:47 AM arrived, the station began receiving hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming
to have felt the sensation.
One woman reported that she and her friends had risen from their chairs and floated around
the room.
Moore's announcement was, of course, an April Fool's Day joke.
It became one of the most celebrated April Fool's Day hoaxes of the late 20th century.
However, it wasn't just a random joke.
Moore intended it as a spoof of a pseudoscientific astronomical theory that had recently been
promoted in a book by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann called The Jupiter Effect.
Number 4: The Left Handed Whopper On April 1st 1988, Burger King published a
full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu:
a "Left-Handed Whopper".
It claimed to be specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans.
According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original
Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated
180 degrees thereby redistributing the weight of the sandwich so that the bulk of the condiments
will skew to the left, thereby reducing the amount of lettuce and other toppings from
spilling out from the right side of the burger.The following day Burger King issued a follow-up
release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers
had gone into restaurants to request this new burger.
Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed'
version."
Number 5: The Norwegian Wine Surplus On April 1st 1950, Aftenposten, Norway's largest
newspaper, announced on its front page that the government-owned Wine Monopoly had received
a large shipment of wine in barrels from France, but it had run out of bottles.
To get rid of the extra wine, the stores were running a one-day bargain sale, offering wine
at 75% off and tax-free.
The catch was that buyers had to bring their own containers to put the wine in.
"Buckets, pitchers, and the like" were recommended.
When the Wine Store opened at 10 a.m., long queues formed outside.
Many people who read about the sale on their way to work went to hardware stores, bought
buckets, and lined up.
According to legend, numerous empty buckets could later be found lying in the streets,
left there by people who had realized, while standing in line, that the sale was a hoax.
A story was told of one man who, after being taken in, poured some wine into a bucket,
returned to work, and told his colleagues about the incredible sale.
All his colleagues promptly rushed off to the store.
One of the reasons why this story was credible because bottles really were in short demand
during the post-war years.
Just yesterday I read somewhere that there�s one store in India which is going to offer
beer at just Rs9 on 1st April.
So, people, be aware.
So friends, these were the 5 biggest pranks which were pulled off till date.
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