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2 Girl Scouts have a new hero. Maya and Emerson were selling cookies outside a store in South Carolina. It was a cold night, so they were happy when a man bought 7 boxes. Then he returned, and bought their entire stock, so they could get out of the cold! He now owns $540 worth of cookies!
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It’s International Polar Bear Day! Polar bears have black skin, and hollow transparent hairs that scatter light, making their fur look white! They live in Arctic sea-ice regions, so climate change and melting ice, has a huge impact on endangered polar bears. They can grow 9 feet tall, with foot-wide paws! Polar bears are amazing!
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Today is Retro Day, so pick your favorite decade before cell phones, and have fun! Wear groovy bell-bottoms from the 70’s, or a dapper suit from the 50’s. Play video games from the 80’s, or watch movies from the 60’s. But every decade had yummy strawberries, which is good, because it’s also Strawberry Day!
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What do you do when you have a bunch of construction equipment, and a pile of 8-foot wooden beams? You play Jenga! Chad Cremeens conducted the world’s biggest Jenga game with a Caterpillar loader, telehandler, material handler, and excavators. Each block weighed 600 pounds! Giant Jenga requires patience; the 20-foot tower took 28 hours to build!
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When Young New was a boy in Korea, his father told him every cent counts. If you’re one penny away from being a millionaire, you’re still not a millionaire! So on his daily walks in Montreal Canada, Young looks for spare change, and gives it away. He’s donated hundreds of dollars to the needy!
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The Swedish furniture company, IKEA, is helping to tidy up the planet, with Good Ship IKEA boats. Designed after their bath toys, the boats are remote-controlled garbage collectors. Two boats were launched in London’s Deptford Creek, for the public to play with. Who knew picking up trash could be so much fun!
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Every year, thousands of puppies and kittens are given to animal shelters. Sometimes they don’t even have room for them all. Today is Spay Day U-S-A, which reminds people to spay and neuter their dogs and cats, so the shelters won’t be so full! They already have enough rescue animals for you to adopt!
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Once upon a time, a man named Levi Strauss, sold some denim to a tailor named Jacob Davis. Using Levi’s business savvy, and Jacob’s magical copper rivets, Levi Strauss and Company gave the world magnificent jeans! They all lived happily ever after. It’s Levi Strauss Day, and Tell A Fairy Tale Day. Happy storytelling!
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When it’s cold out, experts recommend you dress in layers. I guess Ted Hastings, of Ontario Canada, is ready for anything. He just set a new world record, by wearing 260 tee shirts at once! He was raising money for his kids’ school, to buy new playground equipment. The biggest shirt was size 20XL!
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Last year, astronomers spotted the most distant object ever identified in our solar system, and nicknamed it Far Out. Now, they’ve found another object, even more distant. So of course, it’s called Far Far Out. It orbits the sun at a distance of 140 astronomical units, which is approximately 13,020,000,000 miles away!
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