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When does spaghetti grow on trees? When can you milk a duck? When does Google read your brainwaves? On April Fool’s Day!
Come with us into the chaotic world of April 1st as we explore where the tradition originated and how many kinds of hilarious pranks there are.
Dallas’s guest today is Moira Marsh, a folklorist at Indiana University and author of Practically Joking.
Edited and Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long
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Instant Noodles
The Rise and Fall of the BlackBerry
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Farming
Spam: Birth of a Monster
Fonts
The IQ Test
Toilets
Caesarean section
Sawing Someone in Half Trick
Levi's Jeans
Sex (and the fish who invented it)
Plastic
Open Plan Office
Timekeeping
Christmas Crackers
Monopoly
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