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Crunch-crunch-crunch. Today is National Tortilla Chip Day! In Los Angeles in the 1940’s, Rebecca Webb Carranza noticed all the misshapen tortillas that were rejected at the El Zarape Tortilla Factory. She cut them into triangles and fried them, then sold them for 10 cents a bag. Corn + oil + water + salt = delicious!
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A golfer at the Bonita National Golf Club in Florida, nearly got a hazard penalty. Joanne Sadowsky’s ball was headed into the water, when an alligator jumped up and caught it! It earned her a free drop, but I think it should have counted as a hole-in-one! She did not get her ball back.
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A skull fragment from a Neolithic human, went on display this week at the Museum of London. The fractured skull bone is 5,600 years old, and was found near the River Thames. A mudlarker, or someone who digs through mud looking for valuables, called the police when he found the bone. That’s one cold case!
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Artificial Intelligence, was recently given the task of creating cat photos from scratch. The neural network AI had done a great job, generating photos of human faces, which were nearly indistinguishable from photos of real people. But the cat images often had too many legs or eyes, or weirdly-shaped bodies. It was a cat-tastrophe!
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There’s more to the sport of curling, than sliding a big rock down the ice. Sweepers heat up the pebbled ice, causing it to melt and reduce friction, but the rotation, speed and pressure are equally important. Today is Curling is Cool Day! It’s also Play Tennis Day, if you want something less complicated!
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Today is World Sword Swallower’s Day. There aren’t too many places to watch sword swallowing, and we certainly don’t want you to try it, but it sure sounds cool! Try banana bread instead. It’s Banana Bread Day! It also tastes better than doggie snacks, but your dog can celebrate International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day!
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The Tyrannosaurus Rex has a reputation for being huge and ferocious. But new evidence suggests, it evolved from a much less fearsome dinosaur. T Rex’s ancestor, was smaller than a kangaroo! Moros intrepidus, named after the Greek god of impending doom, was a fast predator, that worked its way to the top, over 15,000,000 years.
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While Ryan Belcher was at the gym last week, he heard a car crash. He ran outside, and saw a man pinned beneath an overturned Jeep. 4 men were trying unsuccessfully, to move the car. But Ryan was able to lift the 2-ton vehicle, just enough to free the man! He’s a real-life Incredible Hulk!
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Adri Rachelle loves 2 things: animals, and Lord of the Rings. She’s an animal rescuer, and shares her home with 90 animals, with Lord of the Rings names. There’s Gandalf the Goat, Frodo the dog, and Bilbo Baggins the mule. Adri is running out of Middle Earth names, but she’ll keep making room for more animals!
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Plastic bags, bottles, and straws are just a few of the plastics polluting the Earth. Take a step to help clean it up, by not using those things in the first place! Today is Skip The Straw Day. If you can’t handle strawless drinking, get a reusable metal or bamboo straw to use instead!
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