April Fools' Pranks

Be on your toes today. There's a rich history of some pretty awesome April Fools' pranks. Here are 10 of our favorite.

The Left-Handed Whopper - 1998

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Burger King cooked up a whopper of a different sort in 1998, but that didn't mean that fast-food customers were any less willing to swallow it. In a full-page ad campaign in USA Today, Burger King announced a solution for the 1.4 million left-handed customers who visited their restaurants every day: the Left-Handed Whopper. Burger King said all the condiments were rotated 180° to suit the left-handed burger connoisseur. Southpaws tried eagerly to order the burger the next day, but they had to wait in line behind right-handed folks equally caught up with making sure they got the correct Whopper. The thought that a burger is basically, you know, a circle, apparently never crossed their minds.

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