Spaghetti Trees--who wouldn't want one?

On April Fool's Day, in 1957 the BBC television program Panorama ran a famous hoax showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. Consequently--and understandably-- a lot of people wanted spaghetti trees of their own. (see other documented hoaxes and the history of April Fool's Day here)

I thought this a nice example of an April Fool's Day trick, and also an excellent opportunity to introduce a cool website I just discovered. It is called Answers.com. Check it out. The link is in the sidebar.