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Footprints made by a small, ancient creature with pairs of legs, were discovered in a fossil preserve in China. They may be the oldest prints ever found, at 550 million years old! The tiny trackways in the Dengying Formation are the first evidence that bilaterian animals, or animals that have bilateral symmetry, existed before the Cambrian Period.
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A Danish clothing company named Organic Basics is making underwear that you’ll never have to replace. In fact, you won’t even need to wash them! They are infused with silver chloride, which kills bacteria. Since bacteria is what causes clothes to smell, your expensive high-tech underwear will never stink!
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Lots of animals clean themselves by licking their fur. Maybe your cat even licks you, with its rough tongue. Now, you can buy a glow-in-the dark LICKI brush to lick your cat back! You hold the big rubber tongue with bristles in your mouth, then groom your kitty. Best of all? No hairballs!
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Hooray, it’s National Chocolate Ice Cream Day! While you enjoy your frozen dairy treat, why not watch a movie on video cassette tape? It’s National VCR Day, and someone you know must still have their video cassette recorder! Remember to please be kind and rewind!
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If you go to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Florida, you’re in for a treat. You can finally see the litter of red wolf puppies born in April! They emerged from their den last week with their mom, Yona. Red wolves are critically endangered, with only around 200 left. These 4 pups are incredibly rare!
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Rick Scolamiero probably loves Marvel Comics more than you. He just set the world record for most Marvel comic book characters tattooed on the body. The Canadian man has 31 marvelous characters, from his first tattoo of Spider-Man in 2011, to all of the Guardians of the Galaxy. That’s one super fan!
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Lots of vegetables get wasted because they don’t look perfect enough to make it to supermarket shelves. Broccoli powder can avoid that! Broccoli is ground and dried to a fine powder, that can then be added to other foods. In Australia, they’ve added it to coffee! That ought to give you an energy boost!
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A company in Poland has developed Bee Saving Paper. The paper is made with glucose, which feeds bees. It’s also painted with ultraviolet circles, so bees see it as a food source. The paper even has honey plant seeds, so it will grow new flowers! Now you can say a bee ate your homework!
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Yo! Grab yo’ favorite yo-yo and walk the dog, around the world! It’s National Yo-Yo Day, and those are two tricks you can do. Yo-yos have been around for 2000 years! It’s also National Drive-In Day. If you have a drive-in movie theater near you, go see a double feature. You can even bring food!
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Uber driver Manuel Dias was driving Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor that plays Dr. Strange and Sherlock Holmes, around London, when they spotted a bicycle delivery man getting mugged by 4 guys. Benedict jumped out to rescue him, with Manuel close behind. They fought off the attackers, and didn’t even need a cape! Benedict’s a real-life superhero!
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