Watch The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax, the best April Fool’s Day hoax of all time! On April 1st, 1957 the BBC ran a short programme about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland, showing spaghetti growing on trees. Many people believed the programme and phoned in to ask how they could grow their own “spaghetti tree”.

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