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April Fool’s Day celebrated on April 1st each year has been celebrated for centuries by different cultures and countries, through its exact origin of the day remains a mystery.  The day consists of playing practical jokes and pranks on each other and yelling “April Fools” at the end. The day is not an official holiday except in Odessa in Ukraine, where April Fool’s Day is an official city holiday.

Many believe the day began on April 1st 1700, when English pranksters began the tradition by playing practical jokes on each other. Some historians date the tradition back even further to 1582 but the officially date is unknown.

In modern times, people have gone through great lengths to create and prank people on April Fool’s Day. Even newspapers, radios,…

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