Explorer Finds Plastic Everywhere

Victor Vescovo, an American explorer who has climbed the highest peaks on all 7 continents, is now on the Five Deeps expedition. He is attempting to explore the deepest points in the world’s 5 oceans. Vescovo just made the deepest dive ever, 35,849 feet into the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. He found sea creatures, and unfortunately, plastic.

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Shaq Steps In

When Shaquille O’Neal was a teenager, he had a tough time finding shoes for his size 18 feet. Now he wears size 23, and has plenty of money to afford gigantic footwear, but he still remembers the struggle. When Shaq heard about Zach Keith, a 13 year-old trying to find affordable size 18 shoes, he bought him 10 pairs!

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The Water is a Little Lumpy

The water reservoir in Los Angeles California doesn’t look like water. The surface is covered with 96,000,000 black plastic balls. The shade balls help prevent evaporation, keep algae growth to a minimum, and prevent harmful bromate from forming in the water. It’s like a giant ball pit, that tricks you into getting soaked!

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Designing a Useful New Roof

France is holding an international design competition, to replace the roof on the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, destroyed by fire last month. One plan features a stained-glass spire, and greenhouse system, to provide energy and food. Other designs turn the rooftop into a bird sanctuary, or fill it with beehives. What great ideas!

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Eco-Sensitive Disposable Cooler

Lightweight styrofoam coolers might be convenient, but the disposable containers aren’t nice to the environment. Igloo decided to produce an eco-sensitive cooler called RECOOL. Made out of paraffin wax and recycled tree pulp, it can hold 75 pounds, keep ice frozen for 12 hours, and hold water for 5 days. Then you can recycle the 10 dollar cooler!

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Bawk Bawk Bawk Ba-CAWK!

Quick, who knows the Chicken Dance? It’s Dance Like A Chicken Day! The Chicken Dance song was written in the 1950’s, so millions of people can teach you the fun dance moves. Then you should play some more current music for chickens. I’m sure they’ve got a few new moves they can show you!

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Chicken Nugget Ice Cream

One company is not afraid of weird flavors. The Irish ice cream shop, XXI Ice, made ice cream with McDonald’s chicken nuggets in it! They’ve also created a cheese and onion crisp flavor. The unusual ingredients are mashed into vanilla ice cream, rolled up, cut into sections, then enjoyed by brave people!

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