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School is cancelled today. Just kidding! It’s April Fools’ Day, a day to play good-natured pranks on people! Be wary of the filling in donuts, haha haha! Today is also Fun Day! It’s fun to be a trickster, but so is playing games, creating art, building a fort, or doing whatever else you love!
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Do you think you have a lot of video games? Antonio Monteiro has got you beat. It took 8 days to count them all, but the final tally was 20,139 video games! The games include full North American sets for several different consoles. Antonio keeps them all stored in a single room!
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Florida alligators are showing up everywhere. A 750 pound gator was found wandering through a parking lot, and was safely moved. Earlier in the month, an 800 pound alligator was removed from a golf course. And this week, an alligator was waiting at a school bus stop near a lake. I wonder what grade he was in!
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Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology, have designed a new toilet seat. It’s equipped to measure heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, and the amount of blood being pumped with each heart beat. The toilet seat will be given to patients with congestive heart failure, so hospitals can monitor patients from home!
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7 year-old Benjamin Ball loves sea turtles. So when he went to L.L. Bean’s store in Maine, and they only had plastic straws, he wrote a letter to the company’s president. He explained how plastic hurts marine animals, and asked them to use paper straws. L.L. Bean followed his advice, and switched to biodegradable straws!
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Yay and hooray, it’s Tater Day! Have some baked potatoes and hash browns and potato dumplings and French fries and potato chips and home fries and sweet potatoes and tater tots and mashed potatoes! Then draw some spuds and color them in with crayons, for Crayon Day. Purple potatoes will be beautiful!
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He’s no Mary Poppins, but a man in Turkey did float through the air on an umbrella! Strong winds on a Turkish street caused several men to stand on the platform of a large umbrella, in order to keep it from flying away. The wind carried it 10 feet up before the last man jumped!
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Scientists just measured nothing. They measured the sound of quantum nothingness, at room temperature, so they can understand how the noise of space interacts with their equipment. If they want to identify the tiniest sounds, like gravitational waves from a black hole, they have to separate them from all the quantum static!
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At Ardgowan Primary School in Greenock Scotland, some teachers are quite young. In fact, 3 of them are babies! Their mothers are also teachers, out on maternity leave. They bring the babies in, to teach students about empathy, understanding, and responsibility. It helps kids understand, the hard work their own parents put into raising them!
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At 8:30 pm today, turn off all your lights for Earth Hour. People around the globe will participate at 8:30 in their time zone, creating a wave of darkness sweeping across the Earth. Earth Hour was created to bring attention to each person’s part in protecting our planet. What will you do to help?
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