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The sawfish, a type of ray, was once nearly extinct in parts of the world. In 2023, a scientist caught a 13-foot-long sawfish in Florida, and last year, a sawfish was found in South Africa. The fish with a nose like a chainsaw, may be increasing in numbers. That’s great news, for Sawfish Day!

Have you ever waited so long to take a bath, you grew algae? That’s what a sloth does! It hangs upside-down in trees, moving incredibly slowly, growing algae for camouflage, and coming down once a week to poop. Start growing your fingernails into long claws, for next year’s International Sloth Day!

Celebrate National Pasta Day with this fun fact: Kevin Cole holds the record for the Longest Spaghetti Nasal Ejection. He put a strand of spaghetti in his mouth, then blew it out his nostril 7 1/2 inches! He can also suck spaghetti in one nostril and pull it out the other, to floss his nose.

Playing cards is fun, especially with an unusual deck. There are cards shaped like pizza slices, cards with Star Wars characters, and clear cards for playing around a campfire. For Playing Card Collection Day, show off your favorite deck, while learning a new card game. Ask your parents how to play 52 Card Pickup

Today is Wear Something Gaudy Day, so get out your brightest, showy clothes! A neon shirt with sparkly pants and polka dot socks would be perfect! It’s also Pay Back A Friend Day. If you borrowed money from someone, pay them back today. If someone played a prank on you, it’s also payback time!

When you break a toy, do you throw it away, or do you fix it? Today is International Repair Day, so practice fixing something broken. YouTube videos give you step-by-step instructions to fix cars, appliances, and even dolls. By repairing items yourself, you’ll save a lot of money, and keep stuff out of landfills.

Today is Bridge Day, but it’s not really about bridges. It’s about BASE jumpers, the people who jump off bridges for fun, using parachutes or wingsuits! BASE stands for Buildings, Antennas, Spans, (like bridges), and Earth, (like cliffs). It’s also Adventure Day, so do something fun, and maybe less dangerous than BASE jumping!

The stores are full of Halloween candy, but you don’t have to wait that long, to satisfy your sweet tooth. Today is Sweetest Day! Created by a candy company more than 100 years ago, it inspired people to give out boxes of candy, and make it the sweetest day of the year!

Today is World Food Day, created by the United Nations. This year’s theme is, “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.” Climate change and dwindling farmland means some crops need to adapt to change. New technological advances combined with traditional knowledge, are helping to increase food production to make sure the whole world can eat.

Today is known as both Global Cat Day, and Feral Cat Day. Maybe it’s because if one feral, or wild, cat has kittens, and their kittens have kittens, and so on, in 9 years there would be 11,000,000 cats! Cats are awesome, but they would rapidly take over the world. Meow-za!