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The best April Fools' Day hoaxes of all time!
A breath of fresh air!
Way back in 1934, a new device that enabled a man to fly by exhaling breath from his lungs took the American press by storm. The photo was featured in the April Fool's Day edition of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, but news agencies picked it up as fact and distributed the news and story of German 'pilot' Erich Kocher to thousands of astounded readers.
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