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Yesterday’s “Goat Watch” had a happy ending. Two goats had walked onto an 8-inch ledge under a highway bridge, and were unable to turn around when they reached an obstacle. They’d already been stuck over the Pennsylvania Turnpike for 18 hours when engineers, bridge workers, and a crane came to the rescue and saved the adventurous goats!
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A program called Cat Pawsitive is holding a National High-Five Day Shelter Contest. You enter by uploading a photo or video of your cat giving you a high-five! The prize will be pet food and $5000 for your local animal shelter. For contest details or tips on how to train your cat, visit felinehighfive.com.
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Today is National Siblings Day, a good time to thank your brothers and sisters for being born! It’s also International Safety Pin Day. In 1849, Walter Hunt sold the rights to his amazing little invention, the safety pin, to the W R Grace Company for only $400! Speaking of amazing things, Grace, and siblings being born, Happy Birthday Grace!
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An ice carousel is a round sheet of ice that can spin around inside a stationary sheet of ice, and the world’s largest ice carousel was just created in Long Lake Maine! The circular sheet of ice took over a month to cut, is 427 feet across, 32 inches thick, and weighs 22,000,000 pounds! But it doesn’t have horses.
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Starting this month, you can see a triangle made from Jupiter and 2 other stars, which won’t happen again until the year 20 30. Jupiter’s Triangle will last until September, giving you time to learn about astronomy in order to locate it! Jupiter, Arcturus and Spica will form an isosceles triangle, gradually changing shape each night.
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Archaeologists in Spain just found some old tools- 90,000 years old! The wooden tools were used for digging by Neanderthals in the Middle Paleolithic period. Wood usually decomposes, but the tools were preserved in waterlogged sediments on the Iberian Peninsula. The charred and worn tips suggest the tools were used for digging roots, clams, and fire pits.
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Diamonds are beautiful, but mining them can be dangerous and occur in war zones. But it takes scientists only 10 weeks to grow diamonds in a microwave! They start with a tiny piece of diamond, called a carbon seed. A plasma ball forms when the seed is heated with methane gas in a microwave, and a diamond grows!
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Don’t call me Alexa today. Call me Malecksahchakahowie. It’s Name Yourself Day! Make a name tag with your new name on it so everyone else will know what to call you, too! It’s also National Unicorn Day! Maybe your unicorn will name itself Frank instead of Princess Rainbow Sparkle-toes. Have a fun day!
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There’s a great new hotel opening in 2022. For less than $10,000,000 you can take a 12 day trip to the Aurora Station space hotel! Orion Span will launch you after a 3-month training course. You’ll experience zero-gravity flying, see your hometown from space, participate in scientific research, and make everyone jealous by posting photos from space!
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Archaeologists are excavating an exciting site in the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It appears to be the remains of a massive party thrown 1700 years ago during the Iron Age! They have discovered 11,000 animal bone fragments and broken beverage pots from a huge feast, and bronze pins and brooches used as party favors!
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