April Fools’ Day pranks to play on your gullible kids

April Fools’ day as an adult (or like, semi-adult) can be a real drag: you’ve seen it all. You’ve seen the thumbtack on the chair, and the stapler in the Jell-o.

You know who hasn’t seen it all? Kids. Babies. Children. Innocent li’l kids who have no idea what fiendish delights are out there, waiting to at first embarrass them, but then make them laugh a little bit, hopefully. 

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When making sure the kids in your life have a healthy and responsible appreciation for pranks, it’s kinda hard to know where to start. You want to establish that a prank is not, in fact, bullying. Or, like I thought in 4th grade, just pretending that you have a sprained wrist for the day. You may come off like an Embarrassing Old, but at least you’re teaching them to prank at all. Read more…

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Homeless? Starving? Cheer up! These Great Depression billboards told poor Americans how lucky they were

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African-Americans displaced by the Great Ohio River Flood line up at a relief station in Louisville, Kentucky.

Image: Margaret Bourke-White/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

In January 1937, while covering the disastrous flooding of the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky for LIFE Magazine, Margaret Bourke-White captured an image that quickly became famous and eventually rose to become an icon of the Great Depression.

The photo features a simple but sharply ironic juxtaposition: African-American flood victims line up for relief below a billboard with a beaming white family proclaiming WORLD’S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING. Read more…

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4 tech tips to epically prank your friends on April Fools’ Day

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Want to mess with your friends on April 1st? Get creative and hack into their phones.  Read more…

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The first zero emissions ship looks pretty badass

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The Energy Observer is the first ship to run on hydrogen gas and will sail around the world to promote the development of renewable energies. Read more…

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Never gonna give you up: The surprising resilience of the Rickroll, 10 years later

Against all odds, the Rickroll still hasn’t turned around and deserted us.

The prank meme, ancient by internet standards, has had plenty of reasons to say goodbye, of course: the internet’s short attention span, YouTube autoplay ads that ruin the surprise, and a live performance at the 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, to name a few. But it hasn’t. Armed with that sweet, sweet drum opening and a relentlessly catchy (let’s be real) chorus, it remains the meme that keeps on meme-ing.

Rick Astley’s 1987 chart-topper “Never Gonna Give You Up” is so ingrained in our collective consciousness that when Melania Trump uttered the words “He will never, ever give up,” at the 2016 Republican National Convention, thousands of brains thought instantly of the Rickroll — a meme that debuted nearly a decade ago. Read more…

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5 pages from ‘The Art of the Deal’ that explain exactly what Trump’s doing

President Trump has called his 1987 book, The Art of The Deal, the best selling business book of all time. Unsurprisingly, that is not true.

What is true, however, is that the book (that POTUS did not himself write) could give readers a better idea of how Trump thinks and where his ideas come from.

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As it so happens, we recently took a look through the book and did in fact discover some things that explain why Trump is doing what he’s doing.

These incredibly real pages will blow you away, make you question your judgment, and have you asking, “Wait, so he wanted to be bad at this?” Read more…

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We don’t need April Fools’ Day anymore because we’re living a fake news nightmare

I remember the halcyon days when April Fools’ Day was a bit of harmless fun. We’d read fake stories from the newspaper over our cornflakes and have a good chuckle. Fake news was just something that happened once a year. But, those days are gone

We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value. Fake news is no longer a once-yearly event, it’s a 365-day-a-year news cycle. And, that’s why April Fools’ Day needs to die. 

SEE ALSO: Stop dropping April Fools’ jokes a day early. Now.

“April’s Fool Day is a day when you have to constantly engage the critical and sceptical part of the brain so you don’t get duped,” says Claire Wardle, Director of Research and Strategy of First Draft News. “Now that we are increasingly encountering information that has been fabricated, manipulated or is downright misleading, we need to be engaging those same parts of our brains every day and questioning what we’re seeing in our social feeds.” Read more…

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