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Are there a foreign holiday that the April fools of April? Every year, on April 1, it is universally accepted that his opening season for jokes and bold jokes and that only the suckings believe everything they read or hear. It has become an annual tradition because ... why exactly? Nobody seems to have no idea.

Interesting, nobody had an idea ofcenturies. The question was first officially asked (at least in print) all the way from 1708, when someone wrote toBritish Apollo Magazine and asked: "Where does the custom of doing imbeciles proceed?" The answer, at least according to theBritish Apollo Historians, had something to do with the ancient Romans who do not receive enough sexual intercourse, so they announced a false sporting event, and when the tourists from neighboring countries have emerged, they "seized a large number of virgins and revived them ".

Worse. April The fools of fools. Already.

It's just one of the many possible theories. Another possibility is that France has invented the April day of April. In 1564, King Charles IX adopted an edict that completely renovated the French calendar, moving on the first day of the year as of April 1st (when it was traditionally celebrated) on January 1st. Everyone did not have the memo, and the confused knucleilles who continued to think that the year began in April openly mocked, sometimes with paper fish attached to their backs. They were called "April Fools" (April Fool), a reference to young inexperienced fish easily captured. (It can also be the origins of the classic "Kick Me" signs-reverse the gag that some Farksters enjoy during the season of the imbecile of April.)

There is a problem with the explanation of the Switcheroo calendar, explains Alex Boese, the main curator at the Canular Museum. "The former French calendar started on Easter and not on April 1," he says. "In addition, we have a clear reference to the celebration of the April Festival of April in a Dutch poem published in 1561." Which means we have to go a little further in history for an answer.

In Geoffrey ChaucerThe tale of the priest of Nun, A narrative poem of 1392 which tells the story of a rooster and fox to make fun of each other, there is a line that suggests the events of the book took place "Syn Mars Bigan, Thrity Dayes and two". There are two ways to interpret that, says Simon J. Bronner, Professor of American Studies and Folklore at Penn State. "It could be a roundabout, a repetitive way to say that the story takes place on April 1, because 32 days have passed since the beginning of March," he says. "However, it is also possible that these lines indicate a date of April 2nd. After all, if 32 days" have passed "since the beginning of March, it lands us on the 2nd, not the 1st. The precise meaning is ambiguous. "

Whatever the actual origins, the April day of April, as we know today - with all the jokes and all the language and language fabrications in the cheek - have not really started taking the hand before The 20th century, because newspapers and other media began to kiss the vacancy. A 1905 German newspaper storyThe Berliner Tageblatt That the thieves insisted have had a tunneled in the US federal Treasury and to fly everything, in a 1957 BBC report on Swaghetti's agriculture in Switzerland, at the 1996 announcement of Taco Bell 1996 they would buy and rebranded freedom. From the Bell, April fools, "became the day we all recognize that we all recognize a thing not because of friends and family trying to be mutually mistaken, but because it's the day of the Year, the media know how to be flagrant.

"I know what you think," says Bronner. "So it's the origin of false news!"

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