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愚人节英语作文1000字Media April Fools Day Ten classic prank　　From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fools Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history.　　Here are several of the top ten April Fools Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.　　Swiss spaghetti harvest tops the hoax list. In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home.　　Instant color TV sets in Sweden comes as the third. Sweden in 1962 had only one television channel, which broadcast in black and white. The stations technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to receive color pictures by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen.　　US ex-president Nixons comeback is placed at sixth. In 1992, US National Public Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new campaign slogan was, I didnt do anything wrong, and I wont do it again. They even had clips of Nixon announcing his candidacy. Listeners flooded the show with calls expressing their outrage. Nixons voice actually turned out to be that of impersonator Rich Little.　　In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the Biblical value of 3.0.　　Burger King, an American fast-food chain, published a fulladvertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the Left-Handed Whopper, specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. Acco