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April Fool's Day Database
April Fool's Day Database
The April Fool's Day Database is a catalog of April 1st hoaxes throughout history, categorized by theme and year.
COVERT CLICKERSecretly control TVs, anywhere, any time! This device is so small it is easily concealed in your pocket.
FAKE PARKING TICKETS
Slap one on the windshield of rude parkers, co-workers, neighbors or who ever and they will think they received a real parking ticket until they read the offense.
Instant Color TV (1962)
Sveriges Television, Sweden's National TV broadcaster, announced that it would be conducting an experiment that would allow its viewers to receive color reception on their black-and-white sets. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, explained thanks to a new technology that took advantage of the prismatic nature of light and the phenomenon of “double slit interference," viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970. (For more details, see the article Instant Color TV in the Hoaxipedia.)

