Sharing this as much for me (for later)

Sharing this as much for me (for later)

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Read about the mysterious collapse of the Wisconsin State Capitol and 99 other April Fool's Day hoaxes in this compendium of foolery. . . http://buff.ly/1iyEmMh . . . On April 1, 1933, readers of the Madison Capital-Times were taken in by the solemn announcement that the Wisconsin state capitol building lay in ruins following a series of explosions that were attributed to "large quantities of gas, generated through many weeks of verbose debate in the Senate and Assembly chambers."