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Most people know you can get a kidney transplant. But have you heard of poop transplants? Gut bacteria affect more than just your digestion. The microorganisms living in your digestive system also affect your immune system, metabolism, and even your brain! Adding someone else’s healthy gut microbiota can be an effective medical treatment!
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Enzymes are substances in plants and animals that speed up biochemical reactions. Japanese scientists had found one enzyme that could digest plastic. While studying that, scientists accidentally created a super-enzyme that can eat plastic in only a few days! They are working on ways to use this exciting discovery to save our planet from plastic trash!
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Today is Pet Owners Independence Day. On this wacky holiday, people are supposed to switch places with their pets. You get to lay around and get fed, while your pet goes to work or school, and yells at you for pooping in the wrong spot, hee-hee. Or you could just eat animal crackers for Animal Cracker Day!
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The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. welcomed a new baby on Sunday: a Western Lowland gorilla! Moke which means little one in Lingala, is the zoo’s first newborn gorilla in 9 years. The Great Ape House will be closed for a while to give Moke and his mother, Calaya, some privacy.
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Who are the tough guys of the water? Sharks, with their 300 teeth? Electric eels, with their shocking touch? Jellyfish, with their venomous tentacles? How about the stonefish: they have switchblade cheekbones! Stonefish have lachrymal sabers, which are bones that deploy horizontally under the eyes, and fold back in after they’ve warned you to back off!
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If you live in the U.S. near Delaware, there’s an awesome place to have your next birthday party. The TaCaCo Alpaca Farm will teach you how to raise your own alpacas, animals that are like llamas, but smaller. More importantly, you get to pet and play with the fluffy creatures!
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Do you think you could concentrate on your work if there were a bunch of adorable owls watching you? Michael Lens posted photos on Twitter of the fluffy owls who grew up outside his co-worker’s office window. They stare at her through the glass all day! Maybe they’re trying to deliver a message from Hogwarts!
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Look at that cute bat! It’s eating all the cheeseballs! Blah blah blah blah blah. That’s my haiku poem. It has 3 lines with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. Its’s National Haiku Poetry Day, Cheeseball Day, Bat Appreciation Day, Blah Blah Blah Day, Kickball Day, and Ford Mustang Day. Write your own haiku poem about today!
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A new world record for most mariachis performing simultaneously was set over the weekend, in Robstown, Texas. More than 800 musicians in 42 mariachi bands performed “Las Mañanitas” together. They had to be dressed in full mariachi garb, including sombreros, to beat the current record set in Mexico, where mariachi music originated.
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The English village of Willand in Devon is rising up. The elevation of the entire town and surrounding fields, is growing by 2 centimeters every year! While the change is gradual and not really noticeable, it is baffling scientists. They can’t find any reason for the land to lift up! They’ll continue studying until they solve the mystery.
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