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Your support makes all the difference.In case you didn't notice, today is April Fools' Day.
If you didn't know, there's a chance you might have already fallen for one of these...but as it's after midday, we'll let you in on a few pranks of the morning.
YouTube announced it's the end, as they're close to finding a winner:
"Tonight at midnight, YouTube.com will no longer be accepting entries."
"We started YouTube in 2005 as a contest with a simple goal to find the best video in the world. We had no idea we'd get such a great response..."
The new scentsation in search. "Google Nose leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available".
Fancy a whiff of garlic breath?
Twitter announced that consonants will be free in future - but you'll have to upgrade and pay for vowels. T1ght b8st8rds!
Richard Branson blogged that Virgin will be introducing planes which let you look down below through a glass panel, sending shivers to acrophobics everywhere.
Due to a prisoner report showing 83% of prisoners said that odorous toilet excretions were hampering their ability to relax, all prisoners in England and Wales are to be given free supplies of odour neutralisers.
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