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The Motley Fool Announces That April Fool's Day Prank Pays Off.
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April 4, 2000
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2000
The Motley Fool, a leading multi-media source for financial information, announced today that its "discovery of Shakespeare's $18.7 billion investment portfolio" was in fact an April Fool's Day prank.
In an online press conference broadcast Friday, the company announced that information uncovered by an intern from The Motley Fool's UK office led to the exhumation of William Shakespeare's body and subsequent unearthing of his original investment portfolio. This set the stage for ...
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