7. Cheery Blair painted No. 10 gate red?

An April Fool story by the Daily Mail pissed off many British readers: wife of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair Cherry insisted on painting the front door of No. 10 Downing Street red! In all seriousness, the Mail said Cherry Blair broke the decades' long tradition and painted the black gate red, for it's the color of the Labor Party. [huanqiu.com]