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Today is Log Cabin Day. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book, Little House in the Big Woods, described how Laura’s father built their log house, step by step. You can build a miniature one of your own! If cutting wood is too much work, just celebrate the day by building with Lincoln Logs. It’s much easier!
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Have you ever made a wish on a shooting star? When a meteoroid, sometimes as small as a pebble, falls through Earth’s atmosphere, it heats up. That’s the streak of light we see! Most meteoroids burn up, but if any part reaches Earth, it’s called a meteorite. Today is Meteor Watch Day. Good luck!
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A huge swarm of mayflies is invading Ohio. The mass of harmless bugs is coming from Lake Erie, and is so big, it shows up on weather radar. They only live for one or two days, and will all be gone in a month, but in the meantime, your car might get covered!
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Magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains can travel at tremendous speeds because they are floating on a cushion of air. China has built a new maglev train, that can reach speeds of 372 miles per hour! If you count the airport preparation time, it could be faster to travel by train, than by plane.
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If you’re crossing the street, to enter the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York, you’ll feel like you’re on a giant piano. 75 volunteers in the community came together, to paint huge keyboards on the crosswalks! It was a way to put the fun into something functional.
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Waffles are a great invention. They’re like pancakes, but designed to hold pools of syrup! Today is Waffle Iron Day, so I’m going to use my Darth Vader and Hello Kitty irons to make fun waffles! It’s also Camera Day. Learn all the special features on your camera, and take lots of pictures!
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Today is International Mud Day! A lot of animals roll in mud to cool off, and some people put mud on their faces to help their skin. Sometimes it’s just fun to play in the mud! If you can’t find any mud, grab a hose, spray it on some dirt, and make your own!
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A wildlife park in Florida has 2 albino alligators, and they’ll soon have even more. Albino animals are white, and usually have pink eyes, because of a lack of pigment. Snowflake and Blizzard will be new parents in about 60 days, because Snowflake just laid 19 eggs! All the baby gators that hatch, should also be albino.
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No matter how much trash you pick up on a beach, millions of pieces of microplastic still remain. Engineering students from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, developed a giant vacuum cleaner that can suck up the plastic, and leave the sand! The Ho’ola One vacuum, uses water, so plastics float and sand sinks.
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Researchers are working on a new way to recycle printer paper, by unprinting it! An unprinter would use xenon light pulses, to erase toner without damaging the paper. You could unprint and reprint on paper, up to 5 times! But you’ll still be out of luck if the paper gets jammed.
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