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April Fool's Day

Patented: History of Inventions

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How to Make a Fool's Errand

Some of the earliest April Fool's Day jokes were known to be fools errands. A booby trap is basically rearranging aspects of a person's environment in such a way that they don't realize anything's being rearranged. Booby traps work because we know how people are going to respond in those situations.

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