Author: Lisa Mungovan

Yesterday was Daughters Day, so today is Sons Day. Maybe you’d like to celebrate with pie, for Strawberry Cream Pie Day, then play ball or tag outside with your family. Don’t forget to introduce yourself and say hi to your neighbors, for Good Neighbor Day. Maybe they’d like some pie too!

A canine in Oregon holds the new world record, for the longest ears of any dog alive. The black and tan coonhound’s ears are 12.38 inches long. When Lou’s ears are stretched out side to side, they look like wings! He’ll always have a built in scarf and eye mask.

Jane Goodall needs your help. The primatologist became famous for her research, living among chimpanzees in Tanzania. Jane’s new film, called A Trillion Trees, calls on every person and every business in the world, to plant and care for a tree in their community. You can register the trees you plant online, at treesforjane.org.

If you live up North, the space weather forecast will make you happy. A hole has opened up in the Sun’s corona, unleashing coronal mass ejections and solar winds. The solar storms could create beautiful colored lights, called aurora, in the night sky. They may be visible as low as New York and Wisconsin.

Attention! Chocolate milk does not come from brown cows! One study of 1000 adults, showed 48% of them didn’t know where chocolate milk came from, and 7% thought it only came from brown cows. For the record, chocolate milk is just milk with chocolate syrup added. Happy Chocolate Milk Day!

Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day. Did any of your ancestors come from other countries? Make a family tree, label your parents and grandparents, and see how far back you can trace. Then go stomp a soda can for Crush A Can Day. It’s fun, plus it makes it more compact to recycle!

A pumpkin in Ohio, broke the state record for heaviest pumpkin. Jeff Theil’s massive gourd was the star of the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival, weighing in at 2,195 pounds. While it may be the biggest pumpkin in Ohio, it’s a lightweight compared to the world’s largest pumpkin. That Belgian behemoth, weighed 2,624 pounds!

3 years ago, a loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Ireland. After getting caught in the wrong ocean current, young Julius Caesar had hypothermia from the cold water. The fully recovered turtle was finally returned to warmer waters, on an Aer Lingus flight to the Canary Islands. JC even got his own boarding pass!

15 years ago, a student group in New Zealand, found a fossil on the beach. The specimen was removed from the sandstone with cement saws, and donated to a Maori museum. The fossil has finally been identified, as a new giant penguin species, named Kairuku waewaeroa. The 5-foot-tall bird lived over 27,000,000 years ago.

Today is World Rivers Day. The longest river in the world is the Nile, at 4160 miles long, although some scientists say the Amazon is even longer, depending on how you measure it. Is there a river in your town? Go explore it! Bring along a picnic, and celebrate International Daughters Day.