Siesta in Ikeain Visit to Ikea can run into the length. All the more, running tired customers must have been happy about the announcement of IKEA Germany in 2015 that the Swedish furniture manufacturer will make his bed department available for midday scheme in the future. A day later the resolution: that was just an April joke – so just go on. The British broadcaster BBC allowed itself to go away on TV in 1957. A news film reported on a spaghetti harvest in Swiss Ticino. Thanks to the mild winter, Swiss farmers could have recorded a recorded one. The BBC showed television pictures of women who picked long spaghetti strands from the trees. Many British wanted to know how they could breed a spaghetti tree themselves. Inexpensive wine for all alcohol in Norway is expensive. Very expensive. In 1950, the largest Norwegian newspaper “Aftenposten” reported on its front page that the state alcohol monopoly had received a large delivery of wine in barrels from France, but were not available enough bottles. In order to get rid of the remaining wine, a one -day sale will be organized, in which the wine with discounts of up to 75 percent should be sold tax -free. Since there were no bottles, citizens should bring their own containers. Buckets, jugs and the like were recommended. No sooner said than done: hundreds of Norwegians, armed with bottles, buckets, bowls or pots, gathered in front of the shop the next morning. Somehow a shame that they came home with empty hands. In 2012, April 1 fell on a Sunday. A joke as a maker was practically mandatory for the editorial team: the Milky Way is renamed Helmut Schmidt’s honor in Schmidtstraße! Angela Merkel was pleased, our readers too.Picture Alliance / Dpabankroterlagen on Social Mediaelon Musk is probably well aware of the power that his words have on their own platform X. In any case, the billionaire was not too good for an April joke. In 2018 he announced that his car manufacturer Tesla was bankrupt-and published a photo that supposedly shows him sleeping: “Elon was passed out in front of a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by” Teslaquilla “bottles, the traces of dried tears still visible on his cheeks.” The tweet was not particularly difficult to recognize as a joke: “Despite massive efforts to accept capital, including a very last attempt to sell masses of Easter, Tesla is completely bankrupt.” Nevertheless, the Tesla share in the meantime broke up by up to 7.7 percent. In 1980 the British Radio reported, the clock at the Big Ben, London bell tower, one of the landmarks of the British capital, will be converted: in the future the dial should be replaced by a digital display. For many of the supposedly so relaxed and humorous British, that was too much of a good thing: the lines at the BBC ran hot for days due to the symptoms. Abvent -off astronomer Patrick Moore announced in 1976 in the BBC, the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, will soon be behind Mars for a short time. This changes the attraction on earth. If people jump into the air in the right moment, they could find themselves in the floating state for a short time. But nobody is withdrawn. In 2004, two zookeepers stroke the elephant lady Savani with a white lime paint for the film production “Grzimek – A German Legend” in the old elephant house in Cologne Zoo. The filming made up for an April Foundation in Grzimek: in 1948 he had lured the press and audience with the announcement to the Frankfurt Zoo, a legendary white elephant from Burma made his station there while passing to Copenhagen. However, he had only painted an ordinary elephant white. Picture alliance / Dpasingen with Helium2014 announced the renowned British King’s College Choir, in the future there will be no boys. The reason is stricter requirements. In search of alternatives, in order to continue to reach the high voices, you finally came across helium. A simple solution. In the United States, Volkswagen acted an investigation by the SEC stock market supervision because of a suspected misleading of investors after a message has been distributed, according to which the German car manufacturer planned to sell its battery -operated vehicles under the “Voltswagen” brand in the future. The reactions were very diverse at the time. The fact that the group could change its brand name for PR purposes did not seem to think all of them were absurd. But it was not so. The points of the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) in Flensburg were not particularly enthusiastic in 2011. All over Germany, dozens of radio stations had reported that traffic consecrators would issue points via lottery. The aim of the whole was to polish up the image of the KBA. As you can imagine, the telephones in Flensburg did not stop ringing that day. In 1998, discrimination of lesser King announced a groundbreaking innovation in the newspaper “USA Today”: The fast food chain wanted to sell a special burger for left-handed people in the future. He is occupied by the side to prevent the ingredients from slipping out of the side when eating. To ensure that left and right-handed people get their real burgers, separate snakes would be set up.
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