Map Your Path to the Castle

Today is Hamburger Day. It’s a good time to try the Impossible Burger! Available at White Castle, Red Robin, some Burger Kings, and many other places, the Impossible Burger tastes like a hamburger, but it’s meat-free! It’s also Map Reading Week. Get a paper map of your city, and find your house and school!

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Artist Makes People Out of Tape

Today is Cellophane Tape Day. Invented in 1930, clear tape does more than seal packages. Artist Mark Jenkins, uses tape to make sculptures! You might be lucky enough to come across his figures in unusual situations, on the streets in your city. Learn how to use his tape-casting method at tape-sculpture.org, and make your own!

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Remembering Soldiers

Today is Memorial Day in the United States. Previously known as Decoration Day, it honors those who have died while serving in the military. The holiday also marks the beginning of summer, when pools and amusement parks open. Some lucky students have even finished the school year by now!

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Pickle Split, Anyone?

Are banana splits too sweet for you? Maybe you need to try the new sundae, at Desoto’s Pine Mountain Country Coffee House. The Missouri restaurant with the long name serves pickle splits! A big dill pickle is sliced in half, placed around 3 scoops of ice cream, and topped with syrup and hot fudge. Yummy!

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Rainbows Save the Whole Town

Huang Yung-Fu’s village in Taiwan used to be home to 1200 families, but they gradually moved away. The government decided to demolish the town, but Huang didn’t want to leave. Instead, Huang started painting the buildings with colorful doodles! The 97 year-old is known as the Rainbow Grandpa, and his Rainbow Village was saved from demolition!

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