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The devastating fire that destroyed parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, was extinguished after 9 hours. Luckily, the majority of the building and its precious artifacts were saved. The cathedral took 178 years to build, starting in 1163! Happily, several French billionaires have already pledged $700,000,000 to help rebuid it, and donations are still pouring in!
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Have you heard about repair cafes? They are places where you can bring your broken objects, and volunteers will fix them for free. Instead of throwing an appliance out, to end up in a landfill, just fix it! The Repair Cafe Foundation supports the right to repair, and has inspired 1500 locations around the world.
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Bats are amazing creatures. One colony of Mexican Free-Tailed bats eats up to 30,000 pounds of insects each night, including lots of annoying mosquitoes! Other types of bats eat fruit, like the giant golden-crowned flying fox. It has a wingspan of 5 1/2 feet! Bats are also pollinators, like bees and butterflies. Happy International Bat Appreciation Day!
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Blah blah blah blah blah.
Don’t let bats eat your cheeseballs.
Haiku poems are fun!
Today is Blah Blah Blah Day, Cheeseball Day, International Bat Appreciation Day, and Haiku Poetry Day. Haiku poems have 3 lines, using 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. Write your own, while munching cheeseballs, and blabbing on and on about nothing!
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Have you always wanted to learn to play the saxophone, but thought it was too big? Maybe you need a pocket-sized 3D-printed saxophone! HP showed off the tiny saxophone at a conference in Germany. It uses the same valves and fingering as a traditional sax, but the sound comes from a digital system.
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Proxima b is an exoplanet discovered in 2016, in the neighboring Proxima Centauri star system. The planet is in the habitable zone, that scientists say could support life. Researchers have been studying the planet, and comparing it to the conditions on Earth 4 billion years ago. They think it’s possible, that single-celled organisms are living there!
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Last year, basketball star Lebron James opened the I Promise school in Akron Ohio. The 240 3rd and 4th graders were troubled and disadvantaged, with low test scores. But the experimental school, with its food pantry, counseling center, and commitment to families, has increased students’ test scores at a higner rate than 90% of Akron schools!
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Elephants are the largest land mammals in the world. Their skin is an inch thick, they can weigh over 12,000 pounds, and they eat 300-600 pounds of food a day, with around 220 pounds coming back out as poop. But elephants are hunted illegally for their tusks, and losing habitat. Learn more, for Save The Elephant Day.
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For people who work from home, it will be easy to celebrate Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day. For everyone else, be bold, and be ready to explain to everyone that you didn’t simply forget to get dressed this morning! It’s also Orchid Day. There are over 21,000 varieties of these flowering plants. Happy orchid hunting!
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Star Wars Lego sets. What better way to celebrate, than by breaking a world record at the Star Wars Celebration in Chicago! 36,440 LEGO Stormtrooper minifigures, were arranged in the shape of a giant Stormtrooper helmet, to capture the record for largest display of Star Wars minifigures.
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