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It’s National Read Across America Day, also known as Dr. Seuss Day. Read Fox in Socks, or another Seuss favorite, to celebrate his birthday!
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51 years ago, someone took a magazine from an Ohio library. This week, it was returned, along with $100 to cover late fees. The anonymous borrower explained in a note, that they’d stolen the magazine as a kid, and apologized. The Life Magazine featured the Beatles on the cover. That kid must have been a fan!
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Home security cameras can be helpful when damage or theft occurs in a neighborhood. But a doorbell camera in Texas, caught an unexpected vandal at work. A video shows their neighbor’s house, getting struck by lightning! It started a fire in the attic, which was soon extinguished by the fire department. That was lucky!
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Marshmallow Peeps have already surprised us with Peeps cereal and Peeps creamer for your coffee. But you can enjoy some unusual new marshmallow flavors also! How about Root Beer Float, or Orange Sherbet? Maybe Cotton Candy, or Pancakes and Syrup? Pick your favorite crazy flavor, and satisfy your sweet tooth!
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If you live on a farm, every day might include horses and pigs. The rest of us should also think about them today, because it’s Horse Protection Day and Pig Day. Charlotte’s Web, and Black Beauty, are great books to read, to learn how to treat pigs and horses, with respect and kindness.
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I like your necklace! You’re a great soccer player! This dinner is delicious! It’s World Compliment Day, so make some people smile by telling them nice things! It’s also the Day Of Unplugging, so turn off your phones, TVs and tablets, and pay your compliments in person! Oh wait, now you’ll unplug me! Goodbye!
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Don’t you hate when you’re carrying a pizza slice, and it gets cold? Now you can keep it warm in a Pizza Pocket Hoodie! The hoodie has a zippered pocket, with an insulated pouch, so your slice stays warm and toasty! The pouch can be washed separately from the sweatshirt, to prevent sauce stains!
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A rental bike in New York that had disappeared 15 months ago, showed up on the Citi Bike rack this week. Ted Geohegan rushed over to use it because it was the last bike on the rack. However, it was unusable, because it was covered in rust and barnacles! Aquaman must have been renting it!
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A Dutch company called DyeCoo, is using carbon dioxide to dye fabric, instead of water. The CO2 is cleaned and recycled after each color cycle. It usually takes between 25 and 40 gallons of water to dye 2 pounds of fabric, so the textile industry could save 25 trillion gallons of water a year, by switching dye methods!
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How would you like to have 18 brothers and sisters? A Great Dane just had 19 puppies at once! Cleo had to go to the animal hospital to have her litter, since she was having so many puppies. Humans are helping by bottle-feeding her babies, since she can’t nurse them all at the same time.
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