No one knows for sure why people began pulling pranks on April 1, but we've been doing it for centuries. The first unequivocal reference to April Fools' Day was in a 1539 Flemish poem.
The rest is history.
As fun as April 1st pranks can be, the perception is that it's not celebrated as often as it once was. Boese attributes that misconception to our childhood memories. "It's a holiday from people's childhood. They think of it as this former golden age of April Fools' Day,"
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