April Fools' Day is full of pranks, but where did the impish holiday originate? — -- Almost everyone has fallen victim to an April Fools’ Day joke. But why does this tomfoolery take place every ...

It’s April Fools’ Day which means that every story you read needs to be taken with a heaping dose of salt—but not this one, I swear. The first recorded instance of a hoax was in London in 1698, ...