April Fool's Day history: five best-ever pranks

3. Flight of the penguins

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An Emperor penguin and its young are shown in a scene from the documentary film "March of the Penguins."

Penguins can’t fly, unless you believe BBC filmmaker Terry Jones. In 2008, the BBC released a video of penguins which, thanks to convincing CGI, were shown flying to South America for the winter. The video became a YouTube sensation, and some YouTube commenters still admit to being fooled until the video's end.

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