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The next time you’re looking for a hotel in Boise, just look for the giant potato. Idaho is famous for its potatoes, so the perfect hotel room is inside a spud! The Big Idaho Potato Hotel is a charmingly furnished, 28-foot-long, plaster-and-steel potato in the middle of a field. I’d love to stay there!
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Once upon a time, a tapir used his great sense of smell, to locate all the devil dogs Mom had hidden in the kitchen. He ate them, then washed the crumbs off in the pool. The End. It’s Sense Of Smell, Pool Opening, Devil Dog, Tell A Story, and World Tapir Day! Start celebrating!
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Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot. That’s the code for SOS, the international signal for help. It’s Morse Code Day. Morse code assigned a pattern of short and long taps to each letter, to communicate by telegraph before telephones were invented. Use it to send messages by flashlight, or tapping on your desk.
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You might have smelled an accident yesterday, before you saw it. A semi truck crashed on Interstate 80 in California, and spilled its cargo of frozen dinners all over the road. 30,000 pounds of frozen food needed to be cooked, which was handy since the truck caught fire! Luckily, no one got hurt.
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Cole Favro has been going to Golisano Children’s Hospital for years, to treat his cystic fibrosis. Since he has to transfer to an adult hospital now that he’s 18, he painted a message on his windows saying, SEND PIZZA. 18 different pizzas were delivered by people who saw the message, for a thank you pizza party!
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Elementary school students Eric and Isa had a great idea, after Eric’s brother was nearly hit by a car at a crosswalk. They worked with the Center for Citizenship in Medford Massachusetts, to paint the crosswalk to look like it’s 3D! The lines look like they’re rising from the ground, to make drivers stop.
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Trees are awesome. They clean pollution out of the air, and produce oxygen for us to breathe. They are food and shelter for wildlife. Trees give us shade, flowers, fruit and nuts, and wood. Today is Arbor Day, created to encourage everyone to plant a tree. What kind of tree will you plant?
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Today, April 26th, is Alien Day. In the 1979 movie, Alien, LV-426 was the moon where xenomorphs were discovered. The movies are pretty scary, but the toys are cool! Less scary, is Pretzel Day! Whether it’s a big soft pretzel, mini hard pretzels, pretzel sticks or rods or nuggets, the salty bread is delicious.
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A group of amateur treasure hunters in England, usually find thimbles and shotgun shells with their metal detectors. The 4 men were excited to find silver coins in a field in Buckinghamshire. They dug some more, and discovered 557 gold and silver coins from the 14th century! They’ll split the $193,000 treasure with the landowner.
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LEGO has created a fun tool, to teach blind and visually impaired kids to read Braille. The Braille alphabet is a pattern of raised dots, so they made Braille Bricks! The bricks also have the letter printed on each piece, so everyone can learn to read by touch. The LEGOs connect to regular sets.
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