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A teenager in New Zealand had a swinging good time, setting a new world record. 16 year-old Charlie O’Brien spent over 33 hours, swinging non-stop! He took seasickness tablets to settle his stomach. He decided to try for a world record because he thought it would be funny. Charlie swung his way to fame!
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Easter’s almost here; do you have your cheese egg yet? Sainsbury’s supermarkets are carrying Cheester eggs! The egg-shaped blocks of spreadable cheddar cheese, also come with a packet of oatcakes and chutney. The Cheesealicious Easter Egg is perfect for people who don’t like chocolate, or for people who like all their food to wobble.
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Workers on an oil rig in Thailand, were 135 miles from shore, so they wouldn’t have been surprised to see sharks or whales. Instead, they spotted a dog swimming toward their platform! They rescued the exhausted dog from the ocean, and named him Boonrod. The mysterious sea-pup is now recovered, and happy on land!
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Cotton candy is just spun sugar, so it’s super-sweet. Someone must have thought it needed a tangy twist, because you can now buy, dill pickle cotton candy! Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, sells old-fashioned candy and loads of bottled sodas, to go with their melt-in-your-mouth pickles!
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Today is High Five Day. Just reach up and clap someone’s hand over your heads. Celebrate everything with everyone, with a high five! It’s also Pet Owners Independence Day. While you’re at school or work all day, your pet is lounging around. It’s your turn to sleep and play, while they go to school!
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Scientists discovered how to generate electricity from water, wind, the Sun, and now, falling snow! The snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator, or TENG for short, generates a charge from static electricity. Energy is produced from the exchange of positively and negatively charged electrons. When solar panels stop working because its snowing, TENG can take over!
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The devastating fire that destroyed parts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, was extinguished after 9 hours. Luckily, the majority of the building and its precious artifacts were saved. The cathedral took 178 years to build, starting in 1163! Happily, several French billionaires have already pledged $700,000,000 to help rebuid it, and donations are still pouring in!
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Have you heard about repair cafes? They are places where you can bring your broken objects, and volunteers will fix them for free. Instead of throwing an appliance out, to end up in a landfill, just fix it! The Repair Cafe Foundation supports the right to repair, and has inspired 1500 locations around the world.
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Bats are amazing creatures. One colony of Mexican Free-Tailed bats eats up to 30,000 pounds of insects each night, including lots of annoying mosquitoes! Other types of bats eat fruit, like the giant golden-crowned flying fox. It has a wingspan of 5 1/2 feet! Bats are also pollinators, like bees and butterflies. Happy International Bat Appreciation Day!
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Don’t let bats eat your cheeseballs.
Haiku poems are fun!
Today is Blah Blah Blah Day, Cheeseball Day, International Bat Appreciation Day, and Haiku Poetry Day. Haiku poems have 3 lines, using 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. Write your own, while munching cheeseballs, and blabbing on and on about nothing!
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