Apr 01, 2005 08:55
It's a FACT! Before the turn of the century, the holiday we now call April Fool's Day was known as the Feast of Saint Avrilus! Avrilus was a priest who came up with the idea of setting lepers adrift on leaky ships, thereby single-handedly solving one of Europe's biggest public health problems!
It's a FACT! In Sweden, April Fool's Day is celebrated on August 11!
It's a FACT! In the far-flung military outpost of Newfoundland, the superstitious locals stay indoors for fear that the April Fool's Day Flying Cod (a fearsome, mythical sea-beast) will slap them with his poison fins! According to local legend, these awful fins causes blisters, senseless babbling, and public drunkenness!
It's a FACT! Most people born on April Fool's Day won't live to see their twenty-fifth birthday!
It's a FACT! In the province of Ireland, if you catch somebody in the act of pulling an April Fool's Day prank on you, you are legally allowed to punch that person in the face! But only once!
It's a FACT! The tiny island nation of Pago-Pago has a very interesting April Fool's Day tradition. Every first of April, at the crack of dawn, a search party goes out and finds the oldest person on the island. Then they throw that person into an active volcano in order to appease PakuPatchu, God of Fools!
It's a FACT! Famous actors Peter O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) and Annette O'Toole (Superman 3) were both born on April Fool's Day, and they aren't even related!
It's a FACT! As an April Fool's Day prank one year, Henry Ford got on the PA system at one of his auto plants and "fired" everybody in the factory! Unfortunately, by the time Ford revealed he was only joking, three assembly line workers had already committed suicide!
It's a FACT! Huey Lewis and the News planned to release a "concept" album of songs inspired by April Fool's Day, but then everybody figured out that Huey Lewis and the News really sucked, so those plans were put on hold… forever!
It's a FACT! Only one of the above April Fool's Day Facts is true! Can you tell which one it is?