Here are the most prank-ready cities in the US
FILE - A home in the suburbs is pranked with toilet paper. (Getty Images)
April Fool’s Day (April 1) is almost here, and you can probably expect there will be mischievous pranksters afoot.
Recent data from Google by DuelBits found the cities that have the most practical jokesters in the United States.
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Americans searching for pranks on Google
Dig deeper:
About 23.8 million Americans in the U.S. have searched for pranks over the last year, according to DuelBits.
Orlando, Florida, topped the list of the most likely to be pranked on April Fool’s Day, data showed.
By the numbers:
Residents in Orlando generated 108,969 prank-related searches per 100,000 people, according to DuelBits.
The number of searches in Orlando was four times higher than the national average, which was about 24,915 searches annually.
Some of the most common pranks that were searched in Orlando were:
- Prank calls
- Fake tattoos
- Whoopee cushions
History of April Fool’s Day
The backstory:
April Fools’ Day is observed on the first day of April each year.
Even though the day’s first official observance is unclear, some historians believe the day might have originated in 16th century France when some towns switched from the Julian calendar, which celebrated New Year’s Day on April 1, to the current Gregorian calendar, which celebrates New Year’s Day on Jan. 1, according to History.com.
French townspeople who failed to observe the new year in January were reportedly dubbed fools and were targeted for pranks and jokes. At the time, many rural French were unaware of the calendar change and continued to celebrate the start of the New Year from the last week of March through to April 1.
Therefore, those who were ignorant of the time change were often labeled as "poison d'avril," which translates in English to April fish.
Those with the fish label were pranked with paper fish that were placed on their backs. The April fish moniker later became what we know today as April Fools'.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from a news release by DuelBits, an online crypto casino, that analyzed data over the past year based on searches on Google. FOX News contributed to this report. This story was reported from San Jose.