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Today is Memorial Day in the United States. Previously known as Decoration Day, it honors those who have died while serving in the military. The holiday also marks the beginning of summer, when pools and amusement parks open. Some lucky students have even finished the school year by now!
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A man in Massachusetts came home to his back door open. Nate Roman’s house had been broken into, but nothing was stolen. Instead, everything had been cleaned! The house looked lovely, and the toilet paper was even folded into a rose! He thinks a cleaning service may have cleaned the wrong house.
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Are banana splits too sweet for you? Maybe you need to try the new sundae, at Desoto’s Pine Mountain Country Coffee House. The Missouri restaurant with the long name serves pickle splits! A big dill pickle is sliced in half, placed around 3 scoops of ice cream, and topped with syrup and hot fudge. Yummy!
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Huang Yung-Fu’s village in Taiwan used to be home to 1200 families, but they gradually moved away. The government decided to demolish the town, but Huang didn’t want to leave. Instead, Huang started painting the buildings with colorful doodles! The 97 year-old is known as the Rainbow Grandpa, and his Rainbow Village was saved from demolition!
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Since 91% of plastics in the United States don’t get recycled, more companies are looking for ways to use all that trash. Brightmark Energy is building a huge plant that will turn plastic into fuel, wax, and even plastics again. The factory will take all trash, and separate the plastic, so we won’t have to!
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Break out your cape and plastic fangs, because today is Dracula Day! The famous vampire drank blood, but you can celebrate with fruit punch instead. It’s also Paper Airplane Day. Make a whole fleet of folded aircraft, and see which designs fly straightest, farthest, or loopiest. Find directions for different planes at Foldnfly.com!
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Greenkayak is a Danish company that operates in Ireland, Norway, Denmark, and Germany. You can use their kayaks to paddle around the waterways for 2 hours, for free. You just have to pick up trash while you’re out there. In 2 years, 10,000 people have picked up 24,000 pounds of trash! What a great idea!
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Le Grand K is a platinum-iridium alloy cylinder, that’s represented the official definition of a kilogram since 18 89. That changed last week. A kilogram is now defined as the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s -1 !
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Bee populations are declining around the world, so every beehive is important. In Sweden, some McDonald’s restaurants are planting flowers, and putting beehives on their rooftops! They even built a McHive. It’s a beehive that looks like a tiny McDonald’s, complete with outdoor seating and a drive-through; or should I say, fly-through!
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Today is Towel Day. A towel is just about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Read The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, to find out why. You’ll also find out the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Don’t forget your towel today!
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