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• April Fools' Day is traditionally full of pranks and jokes and 2009 is no exception. 2009 pranks ranged from a Car and Driver report that President Obama ordered GM and Chrysler out of NASCAR to the Swiss Tourism Board promoting Association of Swiss Mountain Cleaners service.Time: Fake Pandas! And Other April Fools' Day Hoaxes (April 1, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Date: April 1, 2009
  2. Pranks may include false warnings, odd news or sending someone on silly, never-ending errandCNN: April Fool's Day Pranks Abound in the News (April 1, 2009)
  3. Reddit joins the Diggnation: Reddit was relaunced as ReddiggPC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)
  4. Google Develops Artificial Intelligence: Google created Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE), her allegedly seized control of Google and even has her own blog and YouTube channelPC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)
  5. Gmail Autopilot: The new CADIE technology will analyze your writing style "to reply to e-mail as if it were actually you"PC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)
  6. Technologizer Celebrated 45 years: When the online magazine first launched in 1964 it charged an "hourly access fee of $15,000".PC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)
  7. Qualcomm's Wireless Convergence: Developed a complex system of wireless networks accessible through Wolfpigeons. Wolfpigeons are "more resistant to the cold and feral cats than a regular pigeon"PC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)
  8. The Guardian Switched to Twitter: The British newspaper caved to the rising costs of print publications and created all-Twitter formatPC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)
  9. Opera's Facial Gestures: The web browser, Opera, will utilize facial gestures on computers with enabled webcams as a way to navigate their systemPC World: Top 10 Fake News Items (April 1, 2009)

• April Fools' Day History

  • The origins of April Fools' Day are unknown but many countries and cultures have a day when people play pranks on each other. In the United States April Fools' Day is celebrated annually for the entire day on April 1. However, other countries only celebrate until noon and anyone who plays a joke after noon is called an "April Fool". If someone plays a joke after noon they may be taunted with the chant, "April Fool is gone and past, You're the biggest fool at last"MB: Behind the Pranks (March 31, 2009)

  • Poland, Scotland and Denmark avoid any type of serious activities and in France, April 1st is known as Poisson d'Avril (April Fish). According to tradition, "French children tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates, then cry out Poisson d'Avril"MB: Behind the Pranks (March 31, 2009)

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