List of April Fools' Day jokes

By tradition, in some countries, April 1 or April Fools' Day is marked by practical jokes.

Notable practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web sites, and have even been done in large crowds or gatherings.

The BBC and other outlets like The World have published lists of serious stories they feel might be confused with April Fools' Day jokes.

[88][89][90] One example of this is when Google announced Gmail in 2004, as it had a large amount of storage for the time.

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Wikipedia's Main Page on April 1, 2007. The featured article write-up deliberately confuses US President George Washington with an inventor of the same name .