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Once upon a time, a man named Levi Strauss, sold some denim to a tailor named Jacob Davis. Using Levi’s business savvy, and Jacob’s magical copper rivets, Levi Strauss and Company gave the world magnificent jeans! They all lived happily ever after. It’s Levi Strauss Day, and Tell A Fairy Tale Day. Happy storytelling!
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When it’s cold out, experts recommend you dress in layers. I guess Ted Hastings, of Ontario Canada, is ready for anything. He just set a new world record, by wearing 260 tee shirts at once! He was raising money for his kids’ school, to buy new playground equipment. The biggest shirt was size 20XL!
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Last year, astronomers spotted the most distant object ever identified in our solar system, and nicknamed it Far Out. Now, they’ve found another object, even more distant. So of course, it’s called Far Far Out. It orbits the sun at a distance of 140 astronomical units, which is approximately 13,020,000,000 miles away!
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A video of gym teacher Jonathan Oliver in Georgia, who helped put his student’s hair in a ponytail, has gotten millions of views. Another teacher in Texas, Shannon Grimm, cut off her waist-length hair, to match a student who’d gotten an embarrassing haircut. Teachers do awesome things every day, because they love their students!
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“A Dog’s Way Home,” is a movie about a dog’s journey to reunite with her human. The canine star has been on her own journey, from rags to riches. Shelby was malnourished and digging through garbage to survive, when she was rescued and adopted in Tennessee. Now she’s a Hollywood movie star!
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Some people say it’s Chocolate Covered Nuts Day. Others say it’s only Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day. I say cover all the nuts with chocolate, including coconuts, lug nuts, and your friends who are nuts! It’s also Play More Cards Day, so play your favorite card games with friends, or learn to play Solitaire!
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Enter Through the Donut Shop, in Miami Beach Florida, just had its grand opening. To celebrate, you could buy a dozen donuts for the price of 10: only $1000! The special 100 dollar donuts contained sweet purple yams, Cristal champagne, and 24 karat gold! They were reportedly delicious, but you might drop some bling on your shirt!
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Around this time each year, you can see a firefall, at Yosemite National Park in California. It looks like a waterfall made of fire, flowing over the El Capitan rockface. However, it’s not really fire! The winter setting sun mixes with melting snow, making the seasonal waterfall look more like a fiery lava flow!
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The latest mission of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, is collecting samples, from an asteroid named Ryugu. The Hayabusu 2 spacecraft landed on the surface, which surprised them by being made up of gravel instead of powder. The collected surface samples will be brought back to Earth by the end of next year.
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National Cereal Day is coming up, and Post will be releasing 2 new cereal flavors. For a limited time, you’ll be able to get Honey Brunches of Oats in maple bacon donuts, or chicken and waffles flavors. Once they’re gone, they’re gone, perhaps for the best! I think I’ll stick to Peeps marshmallow cereal!
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