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April Fools’ Day is over, so let me set the record straight. Some of yesterday’s news was a joke! Bean Bag Onesies, Captain Marvel pagers, McDonalds McPickle Burgers, and Emu Airlines, don’t really exist. Did you get tricked by anyone? Look through today’s news, to get ideas for revenge pranks next year!
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Wotif is launching a new airline, specifically for tall people. Emu Airlines will have 2 classes. Emuconomy class gives you extra-tall seatbacks, double-wide armrests, and lots of leg-room. Daddy Long Legs class gives you a suite with 2 seats that fold down into a king-sized bed! Finally, a way for giants to fly in comfort!
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Sometimes your sandwich needs more pickles. Or maybe you’re a vegetarian, looking for a meatless burger. McDonald’s has introduced the new McPickle burger, which has pickle slices layered between cheese and ketchup, on a sesame seed bun! It looks kind of messy, but it’s sure to make pickle-lovers happy!
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Captain Marvel knows, the best way to get in touch with a superhero, is to page them. People used to call your pager number, and the pager would display their number, so you could call them back when you got to a phone! New ones work with Bluetooth, to connect with your cellphone!
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If you have a little brother or sister that always steals your seat, you need the newest product from ThinkGeek. It’s a bean bag onesie! The one-piece pajamas have a built-in bean bag on the back, so you always have a place to sit. You’ll always have a seat, on your seat!
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School is cancelled today. Just kidding! It’s April Fools’ Day, a day to play good-natured pranks on people! Be wary of the filling in donuts, haha haha! Today is also Fun Day! It’s fun to be a trickster, but so is playing games, creating art, building a fort, or doing whatever else you love!
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Do you think you have a lot of video games? Antonio Monteiro has got you beat. It took 8 days to count them all, but the final tally was 20,139 video games! The games include full North American sets for several different consoles. Antonio keeps them all stored in a single room!
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Florida alligators are showing up everywhere. A 750 pound gator was found wandering through a parking lot, and was safely moved. Earlier in the month, an 800 pound alligator was removed from a golf course. And this week, an alligator was waiting at a school bus stop near a lake. I wonder what grade he was in!
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Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology, have designed a new toilet seat. It’s equipped to measure heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, and the amount of blood being pumped with each heart beat. The toilet seat will be given to patients with congestive heart failure, so hospitals can monitor patients from home!
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7 year-old Benjamin Ball loves sea turtles. So when he went to L.L. Bean’s store in Maine, and they only had plastic straws, he wrote a letter to the company’s president. He explained how plastic hurts marine animals, and asked them to use paper straws. L.L. Bean followed his advice, and switched to biodegradable straws!
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