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The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
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#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
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April 1, 1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.
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It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in.
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Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".
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Even the director-general of the BBC later admitted that after seeing the show he checked in an encyclopedia to find out if that was how spaghetti actually grew (but the encyclopedia had no information on the topic).
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#2: Instant Color TV
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April 1, 1962: Sweden's SVT (Sveriges Television) brought their technical expert, Kjell Stensson onto the news to inform the public that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could conver their existing sets to display color reception.
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At the time, there was only the one TV channel i Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white, so this was big news.
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Stensson explained that all viewers had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen, and the mesh would cause the light to bend in such a way that it would appear as if the image was in color.
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He proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in.
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Many Swedes today still report remembering their fathers rushing through the house trying to find stockings to place over the TV set. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
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