BBC's Spaghetti Tree Hoax from 1957 Considered Greatest April Fools' Day Prank of All Time
On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a story about spaghetti trees in Switzerland, which is considered one of the greatest April Fools' Day pranks in history. At that time, spaghetti was still largely unknown in Great Britain, which is why many viewers believed the story to be true. Today, television audiences would no longer fall for such stories.