Npr April Fools 2025. The theories around its origin story have involved everything from roman gods and fake popes to the gregorian calendar and gullible. Though we don't do it anymore, npr has a long history of inserting april fools' stories into its programming on april 1.
Over the years, some pretty fascinating pranks have been accomplished on april fool’s day, so we decided it might be a good idea to cover some of these events, as well as other facts about this holiday that we’ve uncovered. He did this on the first day of the hebrew month that corresponds with april.