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Have you ever had a dream with numbers in it? A man in Tasmania won over $700,000 in the lottery, by playing numbers that came to him in a dream 13 years ago! He wrote the lucky numbers down years ago, and has been playing them ever since. He says he’ll keep playing them forever.
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The water reservoir in Los Angeles California doesn’t look like water. The surface is covered with 96,000,000 black plastic balls. The shade balls help prevent evaporation, keep algae growth to a minimum, and prevent harmful bromate from forming in the water. It’s like a giant ball pit, that tricks you into getting soaked!
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France is holding an international design competition, to replace the roof on the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, destroyed by fire last month. One plan features a stained-glass spire, and greenhouse system, to provide energy and food. Other designs turn the rooftop into a bird sanctuary, or fill it with beehives. What great ideas!
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Lightweight styrofoam coolers might be convenient, but the disposable containers aren’t nice to the environment. Igloo decided to produce an eco-sensitive cooler called RECOOL. Made out of paraffin wax and recycled tree pulp, it can hold 75 pounds, keep ice frozen for 12 hours, and hold water for 5 days. Then you can recycle the 10 dollar cooler!
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Quick, who knows the Chicken Dance? It’s Dance Like A Chicken Day! The Chicken Dance song was written in the 1950’s, so millions of people can teach you the fun dance moves. Then you should play some more current music for chickens. I’m sure they’ve got a few new moves they can show you!
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One company is not afraid of weird flavors. The Irish ice cream shop, XXI Ice, made ice cream with McDonald’s chicken nuggets in it! They’ve also created a cheese and onion crisp flavor. The unusual ingredients are mashed into vanilla ice cream, rolled up, cut into sections, then enjoyed by brave people!
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This sounds like a dangerous thing to attempt: A man broke a world record by holding 100 lit candles in his mouth! David Rush crammed them in his mouth before lighting them, and held the burning sticks of wax for 30 seconds before extinguishing them. You’re supposed to blow candles out, not spit them out!
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Mikayla Lewis wanted a stunning prom dress, so she did the natural thing. She asked her little sister to make her one! 14 year-old Courtney Lewis created a magnificent gown after 5 months of hard work. She’s gotten 50 more requests for custom-made dresses, but Courtney still has to finish school! Then she’ll think about going pro.
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A 10 year-old British-Nigerian girl named Esther Okade, has enrolled in college! The mathematics genius is a freshman, who plans to get her PhD in financial maths when she’s 13, and would like to have her own bank by 15. Her brother’s also a math prodigy! Esther is writing math workbooks for kids, called “Yummy Yummy Algebra.”
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Today is the day your pet frog dreams about. It’s Frog Jumping Day! Can your frog beat the world record? Rosie the Ribbet-er jumped over 21 feet! It’s also Leprechaun Day. While both leprechauns and frogs, are small, green, and hard to catch, only one will lead you to a pot of gold!
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