STORY: Remember these April Fools' pranks?

1// Google tries to convince us that ‘smell-o-vision’ has arrived

Courtesy: Google

Date: 2013

2// Virgin Atlantic introduces a glass-floored plane

Courtesy: Virgin Atlantic

Date: 2013

3// The White House televises a special message from ‘Kid President’

"I guess you were expecting someone else….April Fools on all of y’all’’

Date: 2013

4// Bookmaker Paddy Power brings us the first-ever seahorse race

Ruby Walsh commentary UPSOT

Date: 2017

5// Procter and Gamble's mouthwash brand Scope

offers a new flavor – bacon

Date: 2013

6// German automaker Volkswagen announces this name change

in a stunt designed to call attention to its electric vehicle efforts

Details of the rebranding were reported by news outlets globally

before the company retracted the news release

Date: 2021