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Jean-Jacques Savin began an unusual crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. He’s floating in a barrel! He wants to be a passenger of the ocean, instead of the captain of his boat. The 10-foot-wide capsule has GPS to communicate location, a stove to cook meals, and a bubble on top to see the view!
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Some friends in Malaysia were enjoying a cup of tea, when they noticed a theft in progress. A monkey stole the license plate, right off the front of a parked car! The onlooker filmed the cheeky little monkey, who climbed onto the roof of the car to inspect his loot!
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Tick. Tock. Tick, tock, ticktock-ticktock! It’s Tick Tock Day, and the new year’s nearly here. You have 2 days to finish anything you needed to do this year! Another name for it is Still Need To Do Day. If you’re all caught up, bravo! You can relax and enjoy the rest of the year!
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Zach Lawless, Riley Meik, Alex Laraway, and Mark Johnson, are students at Brigham Young University, who just set a world record. They launched the highest Alka-Rocket, which is a rocket powered by fizzy Alka-Seltzer tablets. Their low-tech rocket shot up 883 feet, and won the team $30,000! They are using the money to build more rockets.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “Don’t press your luck?” Adam Hansell of Michigan, ignored that advice when he was buying scratch-off lottery tickets. He kept winning small amounts, and buying more. Then he won $30, so he decided to try once more, and won $4,000,000! I think he should finally quit while he’s ahead!
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A family in London came down for breakfast one morning, and found a fox sleeping on top of their microwave! They believe he just wandered in through the cat flap. The family’s 5 cats and a dog, apparently didn’t notice the visitor. The little fox was found to be healthy, and released back outside.
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Pierce Vaughan is a flight attendant, who had to work all through Christmas, instead of spending it with her family. Her dad decided to spend Christmas with her instead, by booking tickets on all 6 of her flights! He used her flight benefits to fly standby, and even managed one first class seat!
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Get your favorite deck of cards out, because today is Card Playing Day! Do you know how to play Crazy 8’s, War, or Rummy? Or try another card game, like Uno. It’s also Chocolate Candy Day, so you could also learn to play Poker, and bet with chocolate, and eat all your winnings!
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When James Egan was a kid, he noticed that his balsa-wood gliders descended more slowly, when he attached helium balloons to the wings. As an adult, he decided to create a blimp-plane hybrid, and the Plimp was born! It will take off like a helicopter, have a helium-filled body, and carry up to 10 people.
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Jackie Gempler and Evelyn Weier have a fun and thrifty tradition. The friends have been exchanging the same Christmas cards for 50 years! They started when they were in their 20’s, and the cards are looking a little beat up after half a century, but they have no plans to buy new cards!
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