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Did you know, trees can help your family save money? Planting trees near your house, helps control heating and air conditioning costs! The shade from one tree cools your house like 10 window AC units. In the winter, bare trees let your house get heated by the sun, while they still disrupt cold wind currents!
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Today is Black Cow Day. A black cow is root beer or cola with a scoop of ice cream in it. It’s also Iced Tea Day, another great drink for a hot day. While you’re enjoying your drink, celebrate Ballpoint Pen Day by writing about its invention in 1943, by Laszlo and Gyorgy Biro.
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A Texas homeowner called the police when they heard their window smash, and an intruder enter the house. The police surrounded the home and demanded the suspect put their hands up. The burglar couldn’t comply, because it only had hooves. It was just a confused deer! The police got the deer to leave safely.
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Some people who smoke, think throwing their cigarette butts on the ground isn’t littering. But all those little bits of trash are gross, and take 2-10 years to decompose. In only 3 months, Negweny El Assal has picked up 120,000 butts in Blackpool England, and used them to create anti-smoking works of art. He picks up 3000 butts-per-hour!
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The UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s, is starting their next phase towards getting rid of plastic. They’ll remove plastic bags from the bakery and produce sections. Customers can use reusable bags, or paper bags. The stores will also remove all plastic and styrofoam trays and cutlery. It’ll prevent the need for over 1200 tons of plastic!
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Hey kids, tell your parents it’s Children’s Day! They’ll probably try to tell you, every day is children’s day, but maybe you can convince them to give you a special treat anyway. How about some pie? It’s Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day! What a tasty way to eat your fruits and vegetables!
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Quackquackquack! It’s Donald Duck Day! The beloved grumpy duck made his first appearance in a 1934 cartoon. He’s been in even more movies than Mickey Mouse! Go to a park and knit a little blue cap like Donald Duck wears; it’s World Wide Knit In Public Day! Proudly display those knitting skills!
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Don’t you hate running out of toilet paper? One toilet paper company is determined to make it happen less frequently. You can buy 3 enormous rolls of Charmin toilet paper, and a special stand to hold it, for $30. One roll could last you a whole month, so you’ll never be caught empty-handed!
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If you’re going to be in California on June 15th, you can help the San Diego County Credit Union set a new world record. Just bring some paper to be shredded. They’re holding a Super Shred Event, and inviting people to bring documents they want destroyed. They hope to shred 900,000 pounds of paper!
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Frontier Bundles, an internet service provider in Utah, is looking for a smartphone addict. They want to pay that person $1000, to trade their smartphone for a flip phone for one week. They’ll also supply them with a map, phone book, notepad and paper, and some CDs from the 90s. Do you think you’d survive?
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