April Fools’ Day can be dangerous professionally to people like journalists and stockbrokers who trade in facts. It is a day when the Internet, already rife with rumor, becomes an even more fertile breeding ground for hoaxes. Many have become so wary of tricks that they just want to take a break from social media until it’s over. In 2013, The Times did a roundup of big companies and their jokes. No, Sony did not launch a line of electronics for pets. And there is no such thing as Vimeow, a Vimeo service dedicated to cat videos.



Source: Beware of April Fools’ Day - The New York Times

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Last week, the accused had snatched a woman's 25-gram gold chain at the Ghatkopar east fish market, but was chased and caught by onlookers and handed over to the police. Two successive x-rays by the police revealed that the chain was in his stomach. He was then asked to eat four dozen bananas through the night, and finally excreted the chain in the morning.

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James Gray has been arrested and fined €600 ($671) after confusing a plane door with a toilet door during a flight from Edinburgh to Amsterdam.

James Gray has been given a five-year ban from flying with the airline KLM after attempting to open the plane door mid-flight, according to the Telegraph.

Source: Man mistakes plane exit for toilet door, tries to open it at 30,000 feet

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A Chinese woman was barred from boarding her flight in Beijing Capital International Airport after chugging an entire bottle of cognac and becoming extremely intoxicated.

The woman was told that she would not be able to bring the $200 bottle of Remy Martin onto her plane, as it exceeded the 100ml liquid limit by 600ml. In response, the woman chugged the whole thing.

Source: Gan bei! Chinese woman chugs US$200 bottle of cognac at baggage check after security officers refuse to let her take it on plane | South China Morning Post





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April Fools' Day is upon us, which means a prank could be lurking 'round every corner, chair or potentially Saran-wrapped door.

If you didn't plan the greatest, most YouTube-worthy prank of all time, no worries. You can still fool your friends and family with pranks that require little effort and yield big laughs. (From you, at least.)

Source: 12 Simple April Fools' Day Pranks

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“Talk about a potty mouth,” jokes the New York Post. Jade Sylvester can’t stop eating toilet paper, and this is her story.

The Post‘s version of her story was syndicated from News.com.au

• The News.com.au story links back to the Huffington Post

The Huffington Post story links back to three stories, all published on the same day:

• One from Mirror.co.uk
• One from the Metro.co.uk
• One from LincolnshireEcho.co.uk

At the bottom of the Echo‘s story is a credit: “National press agency Sell My Story.” It links to the original version of the story:

This version ends with a note:

You might not have ever thought your crazy craving could lead to earning money from a national magazine or newspaper story, but you too could get paid for sharing your experiences.

The Facebook page affiliated with SellMyStory, which functions as a press agency by supplying stories to British publications, posts calls on a regular basis.

“Sell My Story is the country’s leading agency for selling your real life story to a magazine or newspaper,” the page says. “We’re experts in getting you the best deal.”

Source: Holes Filled - The Awl

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A brilliant entrepreneur will debut a high-end, magical-sounding cocktail bar that just so happens to be located inside an old underground public restroom in trendy North West London. It's called Ladies and Gentlemen, of course, and while the grand reveal hasn't gone down just yet, the space is apparently a beauty to look at, with lovely, pre-WWII marble mosaic flooring and arched beams throughout. Also, there's a wall of functioning urinals.

Proprietor Will Borrell, who owns a Polish vodka company, also included room for a grand piano and a small kitchen that will serve his mom's sausage rolls and Scotch eggs. The toilets and urinals have been lovingly refurbished, and somewhere among all these things there will also be an old-school copper alembic that turns out liquor made with "locally grown botanicals."

Source: Britain’s Hottest New Bar Is Inside a Public Bathroom -- Grub Street

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Christian Poincheval is a 65-year-old French inventor who has dedicated the past eight years of his life to making farts smell better.

He claims that his Lutin Malin — which translates to "crafty imp" — line of pills ease digestion and "perfume" farts into smelling like roses or violets. Poincheval claims that his newest creation, just in time for the holidays, makes farts smell like chocolate.

Source: French inventor claims his pills make farts smell like chocolate

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