April Fool's Day is the one day of the year that serious minded people can go crazy without criticism. Over the years there have been many great hoaxes that have occurred on or around this day of the year. The Museum of Hoaxes put together a list of 100, this is a list of the top 15. In 1982, the Daily Mail reported that a local manufacturer had sold 10,000 "rogue bras" that were causing a unique and unprecedented problem, not to the wearers but to the public at large. Apparently the support wire in these bras had been made out of a kind of copper originally designed for use in fire alarms. When this copper came into contact with nylon and body heat, it produced static electricity which, in turn, was interfering with local television and radio broadcasts. The chief engineer of British Telecom, upon reading the article, immediately ordered that all his female laboratory employees disclose what type of bra they were wearing. In 1974 residents of Sitka
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