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Best April Fool’s Day pranks of 2016

A dating site for animals, a kids-only cabin, broccoli chocolate…

Australian companies love to have a bit of a laugh with their customers, and today they pulled out all the stops.

Here are the best April Fool’s pranks we’ve seen today:

Industry super fund-owned bank ME announced a new line of credit cards a la the Kardashians, with the only limit being your ego. Each one is vanilla-scented, and there’s even a Canye card AKA ‘the greatest card of all time’.

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The Today show fools Dickie in hilarious april fools prank

Online dating site eHarmony and Wild Life Sydney Zoo teamed up to announce aHarmony, a dating platform for animals!

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Virgin launches kids-only cabin

If Donald Trump wins the US presidential election, Groupon is offering one Australian family the chance to escape the drama to a Trump-free ‘Isle of Eden’ for four years. All expenses paid and no access to the outside world? Get us there!

Student Flights broke the news of their HECS Your Holiday scheme which puts holiday expenses on top of your HECS so you can pay it off later. We wish it were true!

The one thing we’re happy that was totally fake.

If only this were true – Krispy Kreme announced new technology that will allow consumers to print real donuts with the 3-Doughnut printer. It’ll cost you $8,990 though.

Travelodge Hotels are launching a ‘cold call’ service that allows hotel staff to dump cold water on the heads of people sleeping when they need to wake up for a flight.

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