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As in fools that forget that their couch is not the center of the earth? Wake up, it's April 1st in some parts of the world now. As an exercise in self-education, go find out which.



First, it's my bed. Second, I didn't know the world was round, I've always thought it was flat.

Google's official blog post: "Find treasure with Google Maps Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 10:37 AM"

The YouTube video accompanying that post, published on March 31, 2013.

And Hacker News is a US-based and US-focused website. So excuse me for letting my US bias creep into my throwaway comment.

But I apologize to all those in Iran who are celebrating April Fools Day right now.


Yes, published USA time, but most of the world's population is living in April 1st now (India, China, Japan - all Asia essentially, Australia and so on). So it's not only Iran.




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