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Keeping up a garden can be hard work, but it gets you out in the fresh air, and it’s good exercise. For Garden Exercise Day, add a few stretches and squats to give yourself an even better workout! Make sure you wear cool sunglasses, because it’s also Eyewear Day. Be proud of your glasses!
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Today is Drive-In Movie Day. Drive-in theaters are pretty hard to find these days, but you could always sit in the car, and project a movie on your garage door! It’s also Yo-Yo Day. Yo-yos have been around for a long time. A 2500 year-old Greek vase, shows a boy playing with a yo-yo!
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A movie theater in Texas wants to make sure you can bring your best friend to see a movie, even if your best friend is a dog. K9 Cinemas believes your dog should get a night out with you! Just make sure you clean up any messes your poochie makes!
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It’s been raining trash around Seattle Washington, and bald eagles are to blame. 200 eagles are raiding a nearby landfill for leftover food, then dropping the garbage they don’t want, into people’s yards! Maybe the eagles are reminding people, that throwing waste into landfills, is like trashing the yards of animals. They’re just fighting back!
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Today is World Environment Day. Protecting the environment is everyone’s job. Don’t litter, recycle, leave natural habitats for animals, and don’t pollute the water. Then start writing the lawmakers of your country, and demand that they force corporations to do the same. No one should be allowed to pollute our beautiful planet!
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Run, run, as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man! Today is Running Day, as well as Gingerbread Day, so read the classic story while eating gingerbread cookies. Then play tag your friends, but instead of being It, be the Gingerbread Man. Run and catch everyone else!
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Throw a meatless patty on the grill. It’s Veggie Burger Day! You can try an Impossible Burger at a restaurant if you want something that tastes like meat. It’s also Hot Air Balloon Day. You can make your own hot air balloon, take a ride, or just watch them float through the sky!
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Sometimes when you need encouragement, it feels nice to get a pat on the back. Students from 3 Irish schools, took it to the next level, by bringing 824 students together to exchange pats on the back! They broke the world record for most pats on the back at once, and felt better too!
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If you’re planning a picnic by a lake in Florida, be prepared for uninvited guests. Taylor Forte and Trevor Walters were having a romantic picnic, when an alligator came out of the lake and took over their blanket and food! He ate salami, cheese, and everything else, then returned to the water. How rude!
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In 1964, an antiques dealer bought an old chess piece for $6. It was recently rediscovered by the man’s family, stored in a drawer. It turns out the piece, called the Warder, is part of the Lewis Chessmen, with ivory pieces carved in Norway in the 12th or 13th century. The Lewis Warder could be worth $1,300,000!
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