United KingdomSociety 16 · A modern society
True or false: on April Fool's Day, 1 April, people traditionally play jokes on each other only until midday.
- aTrueCorrect answer
- bFalse
Why?
True. The tradition is that April Fool's jokes are played in the morning and stop at midday. Newspapers and television sometimes join in with a fake story.
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