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April 1, 2004
This is [[April Fool's Day]]. Some April Fool's hoaxes for this year:

*[[Microsoft Corporation]] agrees to purchase the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] for an undisclosed sum. [[Wikipedia]] is to be merged with [[Encarta]]; an access fee of 99 cents per article retrieved will be instituted once the [[software upgrade]] to [[Windows NT]]-based [[server]]s is complete. [[Office Assistant]] is expected to be added in the immediate future, once voice actors for "it looks like you're vandalizing (contracted; show full)
*[[Blizzard]] announced that [[World Of Warcraft]] would be adding Two-Headed Ogres as a playable race. Also, they announced the addition of a new neutral hero for [[Warcraft III]]: the Goblin Tinker. [http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/races/two-headed-ogre.shtml] [http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/goblintinker.shtml]

Things w
idely thought to be April Fools that actually weren'thich may be April Fools:

*The [[Associated Press]] reported that [[Google]] would launch an [http://gmail.google.com e-mail service] with 1 GB of storage for each user.

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Things widely thought to be April Fools that actually weren't:
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*The [[National Archives (UK)]] revealed that during the [[Cold War]], there were British plans to use [[chicken]]s to regulate the temperature in a [[nuclear bomb]]. 
*The [[Guardian]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1183266,00.html revealed] that the [[1954]] [[World Cup]] winning [[German]] team may have been given performance-enhancing injections.

''References'':
*http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1183684,00.html
*http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html