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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
Karaoke: The History
Ectoplasm: Seances & the Rise of Spiritualism
Fish & Chips: The Unexpected Origins of Britain's Favourite Dish
Black Boxes: Recording Airplanes' Final Moments
Rise and Fall of Cinema
Dogs: Domesticating Wolves, Inventing Breeds (& Killer Beavers)
Ejector Seats: Death Defying Invention
McDonald's: Roadside Stand to Worldwide Brand
Kitchens
Pride Flag: Birth of a Rainbow
Pencils: A Surprising History
Locks and the Great Lock Controversy
Suffragette Scientists
Hieroglyphs
Stone Tools: The First Ever Invention
Colours: from Cave Paint to Nanotube Black
Inventing Disneyland: The First Themepark
Rise and Fall of Encyclopedias
Inventing Bond: Wiretapping
Chicken Nuggets: A Bitesized History
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Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
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