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,

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.