April 1 is named FOOL’S DAY, after Steve April. He was born on 1st April 1579. He did 105 businesses in his lifetime. He lost all his father’s assets, and so everyone started calling him father of the fools. At 19, he married a 61- year-old woman who divorced him after a year because of his foolishness.. History helps us recall April Fool hoaxes that took on the world. During an interview on BBC Radio 2, on the morning of 1 April 1976, the astronomer Patrick Moore announced that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a- lifetime astronomical event was going to take place. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would reduce the Earth’s own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. The BBC received hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported she and her 11 friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room. The height of gullibilty. I know every year, it gets more difficult to succesfully pull a fool’s day’s prank but do give it a try. Finally if you believed that story of Steve April and the father of foolishness (credit Kokote Ajebor), then you can also believe the Sun once went on a date with Jupiter hehehehe. Happy Fools day.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:37:25 +0000
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