The tradition of April Fools day, or playing pranks to celebrate the beginning of spring, goes back for hundreds of years. Read on for a history of this mischievous holiday.

I’m madder than a diabetic in a Dairy Queen at that Glenn Beck guy!

As recounted in his memoirs, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a storm to prove that lightning was, in fact, electricity. However, in a newly uncovered first draft of his autobiography, Franklin recounts how he also experienced a short-lived but strange side effect from the experiment.