Author: Lisa Mungovan

When you’re out in the water, enjoying a nice relaxing float on your back, remember to move around every once in a while. Authorities in Oklahoma were called, to investigate a body in the river, but it was just a guy lying in shallow water and soaking up some sun.

Bandicoots, also known as talpero, are small marsupials that live in Australia. They were extinct in New South Wales, but a new population is now living in Sturt National Park. The park, which is protected from predators like cats and foxes, is also home to new groups of small mammals, like bilbies and mulgaras.

For the first time in recorded history, it rained at the summit of Greenland’s ice sheet. That’s because temperatures at the glacier’s peak were above freezing, in a normally frigid zone. Greenland has been experiencing a heatwave, and the amount of ice lost in 1 day, was 7 times higher than average.

National Lemonade Day, helps kids become entrepreneurs. Set up a lemonade stand, to start your business. If you really want to impress people, butterfly pea flower, can make your lemonade turn purple, pink, or indigo. First make a tea with the flowers, then pour it into a glass of lemonade, for a colorful show!

Turn off the TV and put down your screens today. It’s National Radio Day! The radio was invented in the late 18 hundreds. Before television, people gathered around the radio to listen to shows, like Dragnet or Gunsmoke. It’s also World Mosquito Day. Mosquitoes spread malaria and other diseases. But they’re great food for bats!

A walrus off the coast of Ireland, likes to relax on people’s parked boats. Since walruses can weigh over 2000 pounds, Wally has sank at least 2 boats. Seal Rescue Ireland has a solution. They’re building a 3-sided pontoon, that resembles a floating couch, so Wally can lounge on his own sofa!

A black cat named Piran came to his 83-year-old human’s rescue, after she fell into a ravine. A search party had been looking for the missing woman on higher ground, without luck. Piran kept meowing loudly, and pacing back and forth nearby, to alert the neighbors where to find her. Kitty deserves a treat!

It’s International Orangutan Day, celebrating the expressive orange-haired apes. They are an endangered species, found only in Borneo and Sumatra. While orangutans grow only about 5 feet tall, their arm span can reach 7 feet from tip to tip! Palm oil plantations are the biggest threat to the wild population, destroying their rainforest homes.

Hooray, it’s Potato Day! Have some baked potatoes and hash browns and potato dumplings and French fries and potato chips and home fries and sweet potatoes and tater tots and mashed potatoes! Dress up your spud in a bow tie and take its photo, since it’s also Photography Day and International Bo Day.

In 19-oh-3, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history in their engine-powered airplane. The Wright brothers’ plane flew for 120 feet, with Orville as the pilot. It was the first controlled, powered, and sustained, heavier-than-air human flight. Today, Orville’s birthday, is Aviation Day. Celebrate by flying paper airplanes, drones, or taking an actual plane ride!