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Every year on April 1st, office water coolers are spiked with white wine and computer mouses are glued to desks. Every year on college campuses, half empty buckets of water are placed on the top of dorm room doors and passed out bros are covered with marker ink. And throughout the world, the sound of chuckling and cackling can be heard echoing across its borders.

Every year since 2000, except 2001 and 2003, Google has treated netizens to at least one, sometimes 17, April Fool’s Day pranks and easter eggs. And, since we know they love to play (check out their new Google Play offering), we’re hoping 2012 will be no different.

Some folks don’t believe me when I tell them that my perfectly good family vacation to San Antonio was ruined when the hotel was overrun by Ninjas. Now comes a story out of California about a couple of Ninjas attacking and robbing a Medical Marijuana delivery truck.

In June 2011, Jack Froese died from heart arrhythmia at age 32. But five months after his death, his friends started receiving posthumous emails from Froese’s account. At first they were shocked, but as the emails continued to come in, and with a personal touch, Froese’s friends say they don’t mind the messages anymore.

How would you like to own a town? You can for the price of a house! Welcome to Buford Wyoming. This town is 10 acres and has a gas station, an old school house and a 3-bedroom home. Oh yeah, population is 1. That’s right, I said one. Don Sammons is retiring from the gas station and wants to relocate. He’s lived in Buford for twenty years. You’ll have a ton of “me” time in the smallest town in Amer

Last year the United States retired NASA’s space shuttle program, and shipped the remaining crafts out for display in sites around the country. To pay tribute to the end of the space shuttle era, Romanian high school student Raul Oaida strapped a Lego model space shuttle on a weather ballon and sent it towards the great beyond.

We already know movie tickets are at an all-time high — and now one theatergoer is fighting back against the exorbitant cost of the popcorn and soda we often buy to munch on during screenings of ‘The Lorax.’

Friday, March 2nd is a date that we must celebrate. On March’s second day, we must say “Hooray!” With a “Yip yip yippee yay,” for Dr. Seuss’ own birthday. In celebration of Dr. Seuss Day, on the day of Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birth, (March 2nd, 1904, to be exact), we have dug up 15 facts about the self-proclaimed doctor that you might not know.

Would you want to ride a roller coaster whose sheer force has been ripping the limbs off of crash test dummies? Or one that has been described by a fighter pilot who was given a preview as “gut-wrenching”? Visitors to Thorpe Park in England will have to make that decision in a couple weeks when The Swarm roller coaster opens to the public.

On a recent Southwest Airline flight, passengers with too much ear wax build-up freaked out when the pilot wished a "mom" a happy birthday over the planes pa system.

Of all the things you might expect to happen while eating pizza, finding a pearl definitely isn’t one of them. But that’s exactly what happened to a South Carolina woman while enjoying a snack last Friday.

We told you about the upcoming Google Glasses a few weeks ago, and now we have a few more details to share.