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According to Wikipedia, the origin of “April Fool’s Day was based on a misinterpretation of a phrase in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, as follows:

“In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1392), the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two.  Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, Syn March was gon. Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. May 2, the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. However, readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean “32nd of March,” i.e. 1st April. In Chaucer’s tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.”

So, I guess we can just forget the whole idea as having been started by a bunch of misinformed idiots….a lot like  something that Congress or the Pope would invent.