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Two day of Proofreading Day. You might thin spellcheck will catch all your mistakes, but only if you misspell the worms! Besides, autocorrect. Need I say more? Today is also Middle Name Pride Day. Maybe you’re named after someone special, or maybe it just sounded good. Use your middle name proudly!
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Over 900 students in Ontario Canada, smashed the world record for most simultaneous games of checkers. Kids from 40 schools gathered for the school board’s 50th annual checkers tournament. Although they’ve broken the record of 540 players, set in 2014, multiple times, this is the first year they’re applying to have it officially recognized by Guinness.
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The Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans Louisiana, are over for another year. But the thousands of plastic beaded necklaces that are given away, aren’t so great for the environment, with many ending up in the water system. Professor Naohiro Kato, is working on making cheap biodegradable beads, out of recycled microalgae! Party on!
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Yee-ouch! LEGO knows how painful it is, to step on a sharp plastic building brick. Your parents deserve anti-LEGO slippers! After 66 years, LEGO has created heavily-padded footwear to prevent brick-inflicted foot trauma. Or, you could just pick up your LEGO pieces, instead of leaving them in the middle of the floor!
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I’ve been procrastinating this week, and haven’t told you yet, that it’s Procrastination Week! If you put everything off until the last minute, you have until March 9th to celebrate! But today is the last day, of Write A Letter Appreciation Week. Write a nice letter to someone, and you can mail it Saturday!
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Wherever you go today, bring along a book. It’s World Book Day! If you’re reading a good story, you’ll be happy to sit on the bus in traffic, or wait forever for an appointment. Since it’s also Cereal Day, you don’t have to cook dinner. Eat a bowl of cereal, while reading your book!
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, caught an enormous herd of elk on camera. The video shows around 700 elk crossing a road! Elk resemble deer, but they weigh 500-700 pounds and stand nearly 5 feet tall at the shoulder! Surviving the winter is hard work, so if you see any elk, don’t stress them out!
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17 years ago, Albert Smith bought a black taxi in Birmingham England. Since he’d previously worked as a mechanic, he serviced the car every 9000 miles, so it would last a long time. That vehicle, and it’s original Nissan engine, just hit 1,000,000 miles! Sadly, the odometer only has 6 digits, so it went from 999,999, to 000000.
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5 years ago, Lake Erie was so polluted from chemical runoff, that Ohio residents were warned not to drink tap water. Last week, residents of Toledo Ohio, passed a law to help protect the lake from future chemical disasters, by granting it civil rights. The Great Lake will have the same rights as a person!
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If you see someone with a dirt smudge on their forehead today, it’s probably not because they’re messy. Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian period of fasting before Easter called Lent. Some people wear ashes as a sign of repentance. You still have to wash your face!
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