Author: Lisa Mungovan

April Fools’ Day is over, so let me set the record straight. Some of yesterday’s news was a joke! Subway energy gels, cat hair sweaters, and devices that tell you if your socks stink, don’t really exist. Did I trick you? Look through today’s news, for revenge prank ideas for next year!

Sometimes you can’t smell the odor on your own dirty clothes. You might even be afraid to smell your socks, to see if they’re dirty or clean. British company Currys, invented an electronic device called SniffGuard, that “uses advanced scent-sensing technology, to analyze the true stench status of garments.”

Running a marathon takes a lot of fuel, so Subway has a new line of food created with runners in mind. Packets of energy gels, called SubGels, taste just like the sauces used on their sandwiches. You can choose from CHipotle Southwest, Sweet Onion, or Honey Mustard, for a mid-race boost of energy.

Whisker, the maker of automated Litter-Robot cat litter boxes, knows cat owners are often covered with cat hair. They decided to take it a step further, by auctioning off high-end sweaters, adorned with real cat hair. The labels inside say, “Cataire. It’s what you already wear.” You can save money, by making your own.

Have you ever baked bread? Since it’s Sourdough Bread Day, grow a sourdough starter. Look up the directions online. You need unbleached flour, water, and 5 minutes a day. After a week, you’ll have a pet lump of sourdough starter. If you feed it every week, you can use it to make sourdough bread forever!

It’s supposed to snow 2 feet today. Just kidding! It’s April Fools’ Day, a day to play good-natured pranks on people. Beware of the filling, in donuts, ha-ha-ha! Today is also Fun Day. It’s fun to be a trickster, but so is playing games, creating art, or building a fort.

A man in British Columbia Canada wanted to mark his 80th birthday, with an extra-special cake. Ted Martindale started baking 430 individual cakes a month ago, to assemble into the world’s biggest carrot cake! The final cake, which contained 1,760 pounds of carrots, measured 17 feet by 17 feet, and weighed 6,044 pounds.

Psst. Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day, so have you planned any pranks? Be on the lookout, for salsa-filled donuts, caramel-covered onions, and spinach-enhanced brownies. Can you trick your siblings into believing it snowed, or set all the clocks forward an hour? Always be sure your jokes are harmless and in good fun!

Doing homework on a computer, makes you value backing up your files. Maybe you wrote an essay that didn’t save, or you lost the connection before your homework finished submitting. You could’ve also experienced, losing your phone full of photos. Today, on World Backup Day, save all your digital stuff, just in case.

Yay and hooray, it’s Tater Day! Have some baked potatoes and hash browns and potato dumplings and French fries and potato chips and home fries and sweet potatoes and tater tots and mashed potatoes! Then draw some spuds and color them in with crayons, for Crayon Day. Purple potatoes will be beautiful!