Truth is often stranger than fiction. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, April Fool’s Day pranks certainly feel like an unwelcome diversion, and we at Acme Packing Company will not be running any phony posts or the like this year.
Instead, we think it is far more interesting to look back at the unbelievable but true events that have recently taken place. Today, we scrolled back through our archives to find some of the most shocking, surprising, and unbelievable headlines over the past 12 months. That includes things that were unexpected at the time as well as items that, looking back, are amazing or silly in hindsight.