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    9 Of The Best April Fool's Gags For 2014

    Well, here we are again... it's the first of April, and the Internet is once more awash with bogus stories and unlikely news headlines. Some of this year's April Fool's stunts have been deviously clever and well-constructed; others meanwhile, were simply downright weird. Here are nine of the best April Fool's gags from 2014, that you might have missed if you weren't watching closely.

    1. Miss Piggy Gets Her Own Perfume

    2. Google's Pokémon Challenge

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    Without a shadow of doubt, the prize for the most elaborate hoax of the year needs to go to Google Maps.

    Just check out the video for yourself – live map displays are overlaid with an interactive Pokémon game, transforming the atlas into one vast RPG!

    Alright, so the video turned out to be an April Fools joke... but here's hoping the clever bods at Google have got a fully functional version of this game in development, as it looks truly EPIC.

    3. Six Legged Lambs

    4. The Gherkin Sandwich

    5. Hippo in the Thames

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    One of the lesser publicised stunts to be aired this year, was a certain YouTube video which has been doing the rounds on social media platforms. The jerky, hand-cam footage takes us on a boat ride along the Thames... before turning to focus on what appears to be a hippopotamus swimming in the London river.

    Who knows, maybe it's real? But given the fact that this video surfaced around April 1st, it seems a reasonable guess that this sighting was – alas – a well-orchestrated fake.

    6. Frackingham Palace

    7. The Penguin That Laid the Golden Egg

    8. Scotland Plans to Drive on the Right

    9. The Mystery Network...

    Finally, we end with an obscure promotional campaign that began popping up over social media networks on April 1st. The images come with vague captions, that suggest some kind of all-knowing, multi-purpose social network.

    "Get in the know... get Networked" the adverts read, with almost Orwellian confidence.

    There's no website address included, no links, not even a name to give us any clue – only the mysterious "N" logo pinned to the corner of each image.

    So what do you think? Are the images advertising a real, as-yet unnamed social network? Should Mark Zuckerberg be worried? Or perhaps, after all, it's just another April Fool's gag.