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The city of Southampton England loves its bookstore, October Books. When rising rent prices threatened to put it out of business, customers raised $400,000 to help buy a new location down the block. When it came time to move, 200 people formed a human conveyor belt, to pass books one by one to their new location!
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Halloween’s over, so what will you do with your Jack-o’-lantern? You can always leave it outside. Birds, squirrels, groundhogs, deer, and other wild animals will enjoy eating your pumpkin! You can bury moldy pumpkins, which might even sprout if you’ve left seeds in it. Or you can build a catapult, and send it flying!
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Today is Go Cook For Your Pets Day, so look up a healthy recipe for your little buddy. Continue being kind to animals by celebrating World Vegan Day, and the beginning of World Vegan Month. Vegans don’t eat meat or animal products. Have a dinner tonight that has no meat, fish, or dairy ingredients!
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13 year-old Georgia Hutchinson won $25,000 in the National Broadcom MASTERS Competition, with her solar tracker. She figured out a way to make solar panels generate more electricity, by programming the exact location of the panels, so that they could rotate to point directly at the sun at all times. That’s a brilliant science fair project!
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Kokichi Sugihara won the Best Illusions of the Year Contest, with his “Triply Ambiguous Object.” A 2-dimensional drawing reflected in mirrors looks 3-dimensional, no matter which way it’s turned. Other winners also trick your brain in amazing ways. See them all at illusions of the year dot com. Optical illusions are awesome!
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There’s a long white cloud hovering over a volcano on the planet Mars. But the volcano, Arsia Mons, is dead. No volcanoes have erupted on Mars for millions of years. It’s just an orographic cloud, which forms when dense air flows uphill and expands, cooling to allow moisture to form on dust particles.
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Today is a busy day! It’s Increase Your Psychic Powers Day. Try to read my mind! If your psychic powers fail you, try sleight of hand instead. It’s Magic Day! It’s also Carve A Pumpkin Day, and Caramel Apple Day. My favorite trick is to make a few caramel onions too, hee-hee-hee!
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Today we celebrate Halloween. Many kids go trick-or-treating, where you go door-to-door to show off your costume, and get rewarded with candy. Or, you could hand out the candy, and eat all your favorites. Some people like to set up spooky decorations, or scare themselves at haunted houses. Whatever you do, have fun!
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Marine scientists have discovered an octopus nursery off the coast of California! In the crevices of an extinct volcano, more than 1000 octopuses are huddled upside down, protecting their eggs. It’s the largest gathering of octopuses scientists have ever seen, as they were thought to be solitary creatures. Maybe they’re not loners after all!
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The European Parliament just approved a ban on many types of single-use plastics. Drink stirrers, cotton swabs, straws, and plastic utensils will be the first things to go. They are hoping it will cut back on pollution, and plan to use replacements that are better for the environment. It’s a good first step!
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