Author: Lisa Mungovan

There are so many things being celebrated today! It’s World Car Free Day, so try to walk, bike, or use public transportation. It’s Hobbit Day, in honor of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’s birthday. It’s White Chocolate Day and Ice Cream Cone Day, so combine the treats! And it’s Doodle Day. Draw some tiny sketches!

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The global experiment called Do It For Peace, starts today. The campaign’s goal is to ignite one billion people to take action for peace in the next 10 days. Post your act of peace on social media, and tag it with #DoItForPeace, if you want it to be in the official count.

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Floodwaters are dangerous, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, there’s one more reason to stay out of the water. Rafts of fire ants have been spotted floating on the surface. The flooded ant colonies form a giant ball, and ride the flow of water until they reach a dry spot. Nice teamwork!

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Star Trek fans know that Mr. Spock is from the planet Vulcan. The character’s fictional home orbits the star 40 Eridani A. But astronomers just discovered a real-life exoplanet orbiting that star. It’s in the habitable zone, which means the temperature could permit liquid water and sustain life. Maybe Vulcan is real after all!

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If you want to impress your guests at your next cookout, serve a house of hot dogs. Tastemade.com has a video showing you how to use 45 hot dogs like Lincoln Logs, and assemble them into a meat cabin. Then you set the whole cabin over a fire, to roast them!

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Today is the International Day of Peace. With an ultimate goal of world peace, everyone has to take their own first steps to leading a kinder life. It’s Miniature Golf Day, so be a humble winner or gracious loser, and just have fun! It’s also Pecan Cookie Day. Spread peace by sharing cookies!

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In Germany, the first hydrogen-powered train is now in operation, to transport passengers. It can travel 600 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, it has a battery back-up, and it doesn’t produce any greenhouse gas emissions! It’s also quieter and cheaper than traditional trains. 14 more trains will be launched in the next few years.

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Kids at Chelsea High School in Michigan, felt like the Homecoming Queen tradition was more of a popularity and beauty competition. They voted to ditch the contest, and give an Excellence Award instead. It will be based on emotional, social, and academic attributes. They want to emphasize student kindness and character.

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The town of Aitoliko in western Greece is decorated for Halloween already. Spiderwebs are covering everything in a 1000-foot stretch of shoreland. The decorators are harmless stretch spiders. The weather was ideal for a population explosion. The spiders are taking advantage of the abundance of mosquitoes, and will basically eat, mate, and party!

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Benihana restaurants will give you free fried rice with your entree, to celebrate Fried Rice Day. They have also been cooking non-stop since September 18th, in an attempt to break the Longest Cooking Marathon world record. Chef Andrey in New York, and Chef Raymundo in Chicago, are trying to cook for 40.5 hours!

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