Author: Lisa Mungovan

Do you have any big-headed Funko Pop figures? A man in Tennessee has more than you. David Mebane holds the world record, for the biggest Funko Pop collection, with a whopping 7,095 different figurines. According to the Funko app, there are 8366 different Pops, so David is still on the hunt, to complete his collection.

A large stone slab found in France, might be the oldest map in Europe. The 13-foot-long Saint-Belec slab was first discovered in 19-hundred, and is carved with straight and curving lines. Archaeologists now believe it represents a map of the surrounding land and settlements, during the Early Bronze Age, 4 to 5,000 years ago.

Today is Beaver Day! Beavers are the national animal of Canada. The master engineers build dams and canals, and make lodges out of mud and sticks. Their dams create valuable wetlands. They can stay underwater for 15 minutes, and use their flat tails like rudders. Beavers eat trees for dinner, including the toothpick.

Forget the chores and cleaning. It’s No Housework Day! Today is also Make The First Move Day, which is about bullying. If you see someone being bullied, make the first move to stick up for them, and hopefully others will follow. Then keep the kindness going for the whole year!

Who wants to go for a walk? It’s Walking Day, so get those legs moving. Bring your dog along, and your family too. It’s a perfect way to exercise, since it’s also World Health Day. Be sure you continue social distancing, mask-wearing, and hand-washing, until everyone is vaccinated against COVID-19. Let’s all stay healthy.

As part of the Easter Surf Festival in Cocoa Beach Florida, a bunch of talented dogs showed off their surfing skills. A yellow lab named Lily, was the winner of the East Coast Dog Surfing Championships. There was also a pet runway model contest, for animals that didn’t want to mess up their hair.

Kerala is known as the Jewel of South India. The Indian state’s fishermen are helping to keep it beautiful, by cleaning plastic from the waters. All the plastic waste brought up in their fishing nets, is used to create roads. The shredded plastic is mixed with asphalt, to build stronger streets and cleaner seas.

Our planet has earthquakes, but Mars has marsquakes. NASA’s InSight lander detected 2 marsquakes last month, near the Red Planet’s equator, in the Cerberus Fossae region. Most of the earthquakes on our planet are caused by shifts in the tectonic plates, but Mars doesn’t have plates. Its quakes are caused by volcanic activity.

Today is World Table Tennis Day. It’s a lot easier to fit a ping-pong table in your house, than a tennis court. Table tennis began as a parlour game in Victorian England, and became an Olympic Sport in 19 88. If you don’t have a ping-pong table in your house, use your dining room table instead!

Yum-yummy-yum, today is Caramel Popcorn Day! The salty-sweet treat has been around since the 18-hundreds. It’s Teflon Day too. If you make your own caramel corn, you’ll be thanking Roy Plunket for inventing Teflon, or polytetraflouroethylene, and Marion Trozzolo for the Happy Pan. Teflon is the non-stick coating that makes cookware easy to clean!