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History experts say people have celebrated April Fools Day for a long time.Some believe the tradition comes from the ancient Romans more than twothousand years ago. It was a day of playing games and pretending to besomeone else. Others say the day for fooling began in France in 1564, when King Charleschanged the yearly calendar. He moved New Years Day from April 1 toJanuary 1. Many people did not know about the change because ofcommunication problems back then. Some people continued to celebrate NewYears Day on April 1. Other people called them April Fools and played jokeson them. In the United States, April Fools Day is just a day of joking and playing trickson friends. These kinds of jokes are also called pranks. These jokes typicallyend in the prankster shouting April Fools! Simple pranks, like telling a friend a funny lie or making prank phone calls, arestill common. But, major companies also get in on April Fools Day fun in amuch bigger way. A few years ago, on April 1, Starbucks announced it wasintroducing new coffee cup sizes -- Plenta and Micra. The very large cups,bigger than a human head, remained useful for customers even after finishingall that coffee. According to Starbucks, the cups could be used as a rain hat, a pot for plants, or a lampshade. It did not take long for customers to catch on to the prank! More and more, people use social media or smart phone apps to play prankson their friends on April Fools Day. One very annoying smart phone app, Cat Facts, sends funny facts about cats to your friends phones, every day. And sometimes, simple, more traditional April Fools pranks go viral on socialmedia. Last year, a class of college students in the U.S. state of Michiganplayed a prank on their professor. The professor had a classroom rule that, ifa students phone rings during class, the student must answer it using thespeakerphone. This means the whole class gets to listen to the conversation. One student decided to teach the professor that his rule could be dangerous. She planned for a friend to call her, pretending to be someone from thePregnancy Resource Center. On speakerphone for the whole class to hear, the friend announced the news that the students recent pregnancy test waspositive. The professor quickly got embarrassed and told the student sheshould turn off speakerphone. The student responded, Thats okay. Ive been expecting this. I already knowwhat Im going to name the baby. The first name will be April, and the middlename will be Fools! The professor, of course, quickly caught on to the joke, and was quicklyrelieved! The social media-savvy students posted a video of the classroom prank onYouTube. One year later, the video has more than 38 million views. Do you have any ideas for April Fools Day pranks? Have your friends playedpranks on you before? 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