Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Happy April Fool's From Wikipedia

Wikipedia, brilliant as always on April Fool's day, has an entire main page of lovely jokes, lies, and slander.

Here are a few of my favorites...

Did you know:

...that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear?


On this day:

2006 – As mandated by a 2005 Act of the British Parliament, several British policing agencies joined together to become very serious.

1918 – The British Armed Forces started to grant personnel the power to fly.

Current Events:

NASA reports a shower of diamonds from the sky.

The merging of Hartford and New Orleans is found to have severe environmental consequences.

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