Is everyday April Fool's Day in the UK?
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Quiz: Are you being taken for an April Fool?
Test your knowledge of these terrible decisions with our news quiz...
1 April 2022, 1.13pm
It's April Fools Day, and the internet is full of possibly-fake news and potentially terrible gags.
A good time to take a look back at the last few months and remind ourselves of some of the shockingly true stories that our team of journalists at openDemocracy has uncovered in recent months.
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