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Digging Deeper

Did you know that on April 1^st, 1906, the Chicago Tribune, a major American newspaper, reported that prehistoric monsters, also known as dinosaurs, allegedly invaded Chicago, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the city?

This doctored photograph from the 1906 hoax article “Prehistoric Monsters Invade Chicago”, purporting to show giant sauropods prowling the remains of the Art Institute of Chicago, was uploaded by Artful Dodger on Wikimedia Commons and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Were you aware that an illustrated magazine called Het Leven published a photograph on April 1^st, 1932 depicting a woman milking a cow with an elephant’s head?

A woman milking a cow with an elephant’s head.

Finally, have you seen the photograph of a woman in California on April 1^st, 2012, harvesting spaghetti from a tree?

A photograph by Robert Couse-Baker from Sacramento, California is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Well, I am here to tell you that, no, dinosaurs did not really invade Chicago, cow-elephant hybrids do not yet exist, and you cannot grow spaghetti from trees; these claims were just intended as jokes. You can, however, have a Happy April Fools’ Day!

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