Discover the history of April Fool's Day, tracing its origins to French calendar confusion and the tradition of pranks.

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The jokesters' custom has been around for hundreds of years, although its exact birth is difficult to pinpoint ... A similar theory ties April Fools’ Day to the 1582 change from the Julian to the ...

Ah, but every historian knows that all roads — and historical events — lead to Rome. Maybe April Fools’ Day is actually Roman, as they celebrated Hilaria. Besides its top-tier holiday name, you’d get ...

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(CNN) — In the coming weeks, the shelves at dozens of food pantries in California’s Fresno County will be a little emptier. Visitors won’t be able to take home as many groceries, and their ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report provides a breakdown of the net positions for "non-commercial" (speculative) traders in U.S. futures ...

As we enter 2025, BYD's future outlook has never looked better, as its main competitor in the space is imploding itself. Tesla's struggle is BYD's gain and to make matters worse, BYD has made ...

A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African desert, containing a multi-million-pound treasure haul. The vessel, a Portuguese ship called The Bom Jesus, dates back ...