If you see, hear, or read something today that's too outlandish to be true, double-check the date: It's April Fools Day.
The exact origins of April Fools Day are unknown. ,Some historians suspect it dates back to when Western Europe changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Others think it dates back earlier to ancient Roman celebrations of the beginning of spring,
For hundreds of years, people have used it as an excuse to play practical jokes on one another, to jokes as simple as elementary school kids getting their friends to look down by saying "your shoe's untied."
The Information Age seems to have helped fuel the holiday along in recent years, with web sites posting stories so ridiculous, how could they NOT be true ("Florida man weds alligator!"), to compiling lists of the best April Fools jokes year after year.