If you ever feel sad just remember that when the British invaded India and wanted to get rid of all the snakes so they gave money to people to bring them a dead cobra and then people started to breed cobras to get money and once the government realized , they dropped the reward so everyone just released their cobras so basically they ended up with way more cobras than they started with
@ink_slinger I like the idea of observing April Fools Day by recalling stories of past absurdities like this instead of pulling pranks on people