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April Fool's pranks

Anne-Sophie Brändlin, BonnMarch 31, 2014

What's the funniest or meaniest April Fool's prank you've fallen for? We asked some locals here in Germany to share their April 1 stories. Some of them might just surprise you.

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Some April Fool's pranks have even become quite famous - such as the 1957 BBC clip showing pictures of fake farmers picking spaghettis from trees. Some gullible Brits inquireed as to where they could get their own spaghetti tree.

Not just the media comes up with creative hijinks on the first day of April. DW's Anne-Sophie Brändlin went to the streets of Bonn to find out people's best April Fool's stories - and some of them are even quite shocking.