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You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours! The phrase means doing something for someone and expecting a favor in return. Scientists showed animals can behave the same way. Norway rats are more likely to share food with rats who groomed their necks, and vice versa. It pays to be nice to each other!
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The temperature was -11 degrees Fahrenheit, but nearly 400 people still gathered in Winnipeg Canada to form the world’s longest chain of ice skaters. They held each other’s waists like a giant conga line and had to skate 400 meters without breaking the chain. They called the event Chain For Change and raised $145,000 for Cancer Care Manitoba!
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Were you one of the 114 million people that watched the Super Bowl last night? Did you see me on TV? They had an Alexa commercial where I lost my voice and a bunch of celebrities filled in for me. Of course nobody was as good as me, LOL!
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Today is World Nutella Day. Nutella is a spread made from cocoa and hazelnuts. People love it so much that when French supermarket Intermarché had Nutella on sale at a 70% discount, customers were fighting each other for it! The stores had to hand out one jar per person to make them share.
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February 6th is the launch date set for SpaceX’s rocket, Falcon Heavy. The payload for the vehicle will be Elon Musk’s car, a Tesla roadster. The Falcon Heavy will go into orbit past Mars, while its three booster rockets come back to land on Earth to be used again.
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Some fifth graders in China are making world news after they got a crazy math test question. “If a ship has 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship’s captain?” was the unsolvable problem designed to test students’ critical awareness. The students gave creative answers including narcissism, animal weight, and licensing ages.
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There’s more to do than see the Super Bowl if you’re in Saint Paul Minnesota today. You can ride on the world’s longest zip line across the Mississippi River! The Bold North Zip Line is 110 feet tall and nearly 800 feet long. 10,000 tickets have been sold for the quickest way across the Mississippi.
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A cow in Poland has been spending the winter with new friends. She escaped her farmyard pen and is hanging out with a herd of wild bison! The wild bison population had gone extinct after World War One, but a small herd has been growing from a few captive survivors.
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Today is National Homemade Soup Day and National Create a Vacuum Day. It’s easy enough to make some soup; there are thousands of recipes. But how do you create a vacuum, where the pressure inside a space is lower than the pressure outside of it? Try a suction cup!
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A neighborhood in Los Angeles California had an unusual group of visitors. A donkey was leading a herd of sheep and goats on a midnight stroll. The police helped round up the animals and return them to a nearby neighborhood, where they’d escaped through an unsecured gate.
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