April Fools Day, though declared a national holiday, is rarely taken advantage of by millions of Americans these days. This negligence should be treated as the crime that it is–national treason! To stay on the Land of the Free’s good side, please become sparked by inspiration by these past iconic pranks.

In 1957, BBC broadcasted a fake “Spaghetti tree” harvest in Switzerland, leading many viewers to believe that due to a warmer season, spaghetti flourished on Switzerland spaghetti plants.

 To create the plant, BBC instructed curious callers with “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”

In the 1970s, a logger with perhaps too much time on his hands stacked 70 tires on Mount Edgecumbe, a long-time dormant volcano in Alaska, and set them all ablaze. Fear not, the firefighters and police were in on the prank, but the Coast Guard and local citizens were not. Many believed in hysteria that the volcano was about to blow, until the Coast Guard discovered the mantra “April Fool” spray painted near the blaze.

In 1992, legendary president Richard Nixon who definitely is not guilty for spying on an opposing political party announced his running for president, stupefying Americans. Unfortunately for Nixon fans, it was only an actor.

This next fools day prank may be a little dicey to some, as in 1993 in China, the government condemned April Fools Day as a “Western Tradition” after the China Youth Daily joked that PhDs should be exempt from China’s one-child policy.

Another iconic April Fools Day prank was the OceanGate submarine that sank this past summer, except that wasn’t on April 1st.

Here are some stellar ideas for your own April Fools Day pranks, but if you want to be traditional, you’ll have to wait until next year.

• Tell your parents you’re adopted
• Change the locks on your house
• Transform your backyard into a crop circle
• Get a library card (not actually a prank, you just probably need to read more books)
• Sign your loved ones up for Pilates (heart disease is the leading cause of death, which isn’t a prank)
• Do not file your taxes on April 15th 
• Give your dog box braids
• Consider staging a fake George Washington revival, where you or a friend poses as George Washington and together, heroically cross the Delaware river, denying that you are filming a historical documentary and actually truly are the real George and company.