Good NewsApril Fool’s! Today’s best pranks
Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see."
When it comes to April 1st, don't believe anything you read on the Internet either.
Here's a quick roundup of some of the best pranks of the day.
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has a new funding idea: underground condos!
No more a.m. and p.m.! WestJet is converting to metric time:
The official website shares how to calculate your flight's departure in metric time:
Take your departure time in 24-hour time. Represented as HR:MIN.
Multiply the HR by 60.
Add the MIN.
Take the total and divide by 1.44.
Southwest Airlines is now offering round trips to Mars at the reasonably affordable price of $9,999.
BMW introduced the latest addition to its family: the BMW ZZZ Series Cot, a premium baby cot and "ultimate sleeping machine."
Gmail is introducing the "Shelfie," or "shareable selfie" Gmail themes. Read more here.
And if you need a little more star power if your selfies, Google is also debuting Google+ Auto Awesome Photobombs, which inserts celebrity photo bombs into your photos. (David Hasselhoff is the current celebrity option.)
Google Translate now translates to Emoji.
The Metro rounded up some of the best joke headlines across the pond including "Scotland to switch to driving on the right if independence given green light," "Draft EU blacklist names Putin's dog" and "Kim Jong-un BANS One Direction from entertain Korea — unless they get their hair cut."
The Huffington Post Canada went 100 per cent cats this morning.
Amazon is bringing paper back with the Amazon Kindle Paperscent, an aromatherapy-infused case that makes Kindles smell like books.
And Sony is expanding its brand to include "Power Food":
Airbnb has something new, too: Airbrb, an app that lets you rent out your desk while you take those much needed breaks.
Did you pull any pranks this morning? Or were you too busy figuring out how to get your hands on the new Vegemite energy drink or KFC's "Mighty Mouth Expander"?
