Author: Lisa Mungovan

Waffle House is always open, but they still won’t give a table to alligators. In Florida, a 5-foot gator was spotted loitering outside the restaurant. The Sheriff’s deputies covered its head with blankets to keep it calm, and moved it to a safe location. They didn’t even give it a waffle to go!

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China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon this morning, and has already sent back its first beautiful image. Since the dark side of the moon is always hidden from Earth, we know very little about it. A satellite orbiting the moon will relay communications, and more photos, to Earth.

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Drinking straws made of plastic, find their way into oceans after being used once. They are being banned in cities and businesses around the world. So today, on National Drinking Straw Day, treat yourself and the Earth to a reusable straw, and be sure to take it with you everywhere from now on!

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Wake up! It’s time to go to sleep! It’s Festival Of Sleep Day! If you have to go to school, take a nap as soon as you get home. Then go to bed early tonight, snuggled in your favorite pajamas. It’s also Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day, so take time for a little treat before bed!

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You might be able to guess, that entomologist Brett Radcliffe is a fan of the TV series, Game of Thrones. He discovered 3 new beetles, and their orange markings reminded him of fire, so he named them after dragons on the show. Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion are now immortalized as Gymnetis drogoni, rhaegali, and viserioni.

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People who steal packages from other people’s porches, or porch pirates, sometimes get what they deserve. After repeatedly having packages stolen by masked thieves, Stephanie Igoa filled a box with cat poop. Her security camera shows the thief excitedly tucking the box of poop, into his backpack. Maybe he’ll stop stealing now!

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Scientists in Antarctica drilled a hole nearly 4000 feet deep, ending in a lake deep below the ice. Lake Mercer was called a lost lake, since it was inaccessible to experiments. Now, researchers can dip into the waters through the tiny hole, to study the subglacial world, and perhaps even discover some new organisms!

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New Year’s Eve celebrations leave a mess, when people party in the streets. Yesterday in the United Kingdom, over 1000 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, started the year with good deeds, by rising early and cleaning up the streets. In 50 cities, young people filled garbage bags with trash, while their communities slept in.

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Happy Mew Year! Yes, you heard me right. It’s Happy Mew Year Day For Cats! I guess people weren’t paying enough attention to them yesterday. It’s also Science Fiction Day. On the birthday of one of the greatest science fiction writers, Isaac Asimov, read “I Robot” and watch Dr Who or Star Trek.

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Early this morning, the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule, the most distant world ever studied by humans. The space rock is in the Kuiper Belt, a billion miles past Pluto! As the spacecraft whizzed by Ultimate Thule at 32,000 miles per hour, it was taking hundreds of pictures. I hope they weren’t blurry!

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