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This week, a Canadian company took High Five Day seriously. The Johnston Group in Winnipeg, set a world record for most high fives in a relay in 3 minutes. The 33 employees practiced for months, and it paid off. They were able to complete 509 high fives! I wonder if they celebrated, by giving each other high-fives!
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If you visit Elsie’s, a deli in New Jersey, don’t expect to get a sandwich made with bread. The Haddon Township restaurant, has replaced all the bread with pickles! The big dill pickles are sliced in half and scooped out, to hold plenty of fillings. They need a few toothpicks to keep them together!
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How did you spend your Spring Break? Middle school student Avery Fauth, visited North Topsail Beach in North Carolina. She had been searching for shark teeth in the sand, when she hit the jackpot. Avery found a megalodon tooth the size of her palm! The 65-foot-long prehistoric sharks, died out over 2 million years ago!
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Pennsylvania has cast their votes for an official State Amphibian. The Eastern Hellbender salamander is the new aquatic ambassador! The giant nocturnal salamander grows over 2 feet long, and has loose wrinkly skin, covered in mucus. It’s also known as a lasagna lizard, mud devil, Allegheny alligator, devil dog, or snot otter! What awesome nicknames!
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I’ve gotta record for sale here, who’ll give me one-dollar, one-dolla-one-one dolla one-HERE now gimme-two-two-two dolla-two SOLD!, for two dollars! It’s National Auctioneers Day! Talk like an auctioneer and sell something to your friends. I pretended to auction a record, because it’s National Record Store Day! If you can still find one, visit it!
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A year ago, the Perlman family’s dog, Bruno, went missing in Ohio. He had gotten loose during a walk, and disappeared without a trace. This week, exactly one year later, the family got a call from the police in Florida. Their micro-chipped dog had been found, over 1,000 miles away! Bruno had quite an adventure!
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17 year-old Alex Dzaghigian, who lives in Cyprus, has broken a world record for the largest drawing by an individual. He wanted to increase awareness about protecting the environment, so he drew a picture of a turtle surrounded by plastic waste. The drawing measures over 3,486 square-feet! That must have been a gigantic sheet of paper!
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The kākāpō, or owl parrot, is a large nocturnal, flightless, ground-dwelling bird, that lives in New Zealand. Only 147 adult parrots are alive today. They only breed every 2-4 years, when the rimu trees produce lots of fruit for the new babies to eat. The good news is, 76 new kākāpō chicks have hatched this season! Yay!
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A couple in Australia, went to the Keep River National Park on a day trip, and their car got stuck in the mud. The park is home to many crocodiles. They spelled out the word HELP, in giant letters in the mud, which a plane spotted. They were rescued before any crocodiles found them!
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I hope you have beautiful weather wherever you live, because today is Bicycle Day. Enjoy the outdoors with a nice bike ride! If your spring still feels like winter, you can give your bicycle a tune-up instead. It’s also Garlic Day. Eat a loaf of garlic bread and celebrate your pungent breath!
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