Day: April 1, 2020

Breaking a continuous 438 year history of pranks and practical jokes, April Fools Day has been postponed until 1 September this year due to COVID-19. “It is a terrible shame, and is going to put a lot of our staff out of work, but it just had to be done,” said François de Blague, head of the International April Fool’s Day Federation (IAFDF) based in Geneva, Switzerland. In Australia, government officials have confirmed and hesitantly backed the move. “Look, this is not the time for people to be announcing there is a disease infecting spaghetti trees causing already panicked people…