Today is April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery. But why? Where did this faux holiday come from? Why do we do this to each other,

April Fools' Day is celebrated worldwide, and many countries have their own unique pranks and jokes. In France, paper fish are often put on someone's back as a joke because the fish are said to be young and, therefore, easily caught. The prank is called the "April Fish," and those who get the fish placed on their backs are seen as gullible.

Fool's Day, marked on April 1 every year, is one of those occasions devoted to jests, trickery, and merry deception. The precise nature of its beginning is not yet certain, though the historians relate it to various intriguing incidents.