Things We Saw Around the Interwebs That We Hoped Were Jokes

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Did we oversleep today -- by a few months? We wondered this as we perused a few stories that we WERE SURE had to to be April Fool's jokes. First up: this bit about fat being contagious. Which means, yup, scientists are already hard at work to come up with an antidote. Then when we saw Refinery 29's list of fashion's most eligible bachelors?Olivier Zahm and Andre Leon Talley? Yeah, sure, they're single, but?It did indeed feel like someone was joking us, bigtime. [LA Weekly, Refinery 29]