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April Fools’ Day in Chinese

Our serious and undoubtedly thoroughly academic website was visited today by an entire delegation from the International Space Station. No, we are not joking, despite the date, and can even provide a screenshot recording the visit...

No, we are not joking, despite the date, and can even provide a screenshot recording a visit to our website by an entire delegation of 41 (forty-one) users whose location is the International Space Station—Control Room (International Space Station - Control Room).

Google is the one joking. First, the number of users, composed of the digits “4” and “1,” directly indicates the first day of the fourth month, April 1. Second, hundreds of users of Google’s Analytics service are writing about it.

We will take this event as an occasion to add a new entry to our dictionary. Please welcome “April Fools’ Day” in Chinese.

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