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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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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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This sounds like a dangerous thing to attempt: A man broke a world record by holding 100 lit candles in his mouth! David Rush crammed them in his mouth before lighting them, and held the burning sticks of wax for 30 seconds before extinguishing them. You’re supposed to blow candles out, not spit them out!
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Mikayla Lewis wanted a stunning prom dress, so she did the natural thing. She asked her little sister to make her one! 14 year-old Courtney Lewis created a magnificent gown after 5 months of hard work. She’s gotten 50 more requests for custom-made dresses, but Courtney still has to finish school! Then she’ll think about going pro.
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A 10 year-old British-Nigerian girl named Esther Okade, has enrolled in college! The mathematics genius is a freshman, who plans to get her PhD in financial maths when she’s 13, and would like to have her own bank by 15. Her brother’s also a math prodigy! Esther is writing math workbooks for kids, called “Yummy Yummy Algebra.”
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Today is the day your pet frog dreams about. It’s Frog Jumping Day! Can your frog beat the world record? Rosie the Ribbet-er jumped over 21 feet! It’s also Leprechaun Day. While both leprechauns and frogs, are small, green, and hard to catch, only one will lead you to a pot of gold!
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Missouri resident Fonda Smith-Davis, was glad she followed the directions in a fortune cookie. She went out to dinner with her son, and her fortune said, “Gamble, win big.” So Fonda bought 4 scratch-off lottery tickets, and one of them was worth $50,000! Now that’s what you call a true fortune cookie!
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Looking for a summer job? A British company is hiring people to review luxury yachts! HushHush will pay $1300 per review. You must spend a week on the boat to make sure every socket, faucet, and door works. They want every detail to be up to their standards of perfection. No yacht experience is required!
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A dinosaur that lived in China during the Jurassic period, 163,000,000 years ago, probably had leathery wings. Ambopteryx longibrachium was about 13 inches long, and is one of the first types of scansoriopterygyid dinosaurs to show evidence of bat-like wings, instead of feathers. This type of wing has been seen in pterosaurs, but rarely in theropods.
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Proving that one person can make a huge difference, a marine conservationist helped protect 763,000 square miles of ocean! Jaqueline Evans spent 5 years pushing for the Marae Moana laws, that protect the waters around the Cook Islands from pollution, seabed mining, and overfishing. She’s receiving the 2019 Goldman Prize for Islands and Island Nations in recognition.
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