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If you visited Paris France this summer, you may have spotted a Uritrottoir. That’s French for pavement urinal! They’d already installed Sanisettes, which are free self-cleaning toilets, on many street corners. Officials want to discourage wild peeing. Not everyone likes the bright red boxes, but at least the urinals have flowers planted on top!
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Earlier this week, people in Western Australia saw a fireball light up the sky. It was a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere! The meteor was about 1.6 feet across, and was captured on video by numerous people, dashcams, and security cameras. Residents around the town of York are searching for its remains.
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Everyone needs a pet, but maybe you have allergies, or travel too much, or don’t have money for visits to the vet. Get a pet rock! Today is Pet Rock Day! In the 1970’s, they were sold in a ventilated box with a bed of hay. Today, you can adopt one from your garden!
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University of Nebraska student John Lang and dozens of volunteers, are working on a big kickoff to the football season. Using thousands of red and white Lego bricks, he’s creating the team’s logo: a giant “N”. It will become the largest Lego Brick Mosaic of a Logo, at 47 by 37 feet!
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A big lizard is wandering the streets of South Florida. The 6 foot long, 100 pound Asian water monitor is named Bamboo. A 14 year-old had been keeping him as a pet in his backyard pool. So far, no one has been able to capture the lizard king. He’s having fun exploring the neighborhood!
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The Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spetrograph has been hard at work. It’s sending incredible images of Saturn’s Aurora! The glowing auroras can’t be seen in visible light, but by using ultraviolet light, they are clear and beautiful. Saturn’s main auroral ring is likely wind-generated, but other parts are still a mystery.
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Some Starbucks employees will soon be able to split their work hours. They’ll spend 20 hours working at the coffee shop, and 20 hours working for local charities. Starbucks will give the workers full-time benefits, and Points of Light, a nonprofit volunteering group, will pay them for the community service. Hopefully, the program will be successful!
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The purple woman’s silver spirit turned the chimney orange. Most of the words in that sentence don’t rhyme with anything, perfect for No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day! It’s also Beard Day, International Turkey Vulture Day, and Ginger Cat Appreciation Day. You, your orange cat, and your neighborhood vulture should all wear fake beards today!
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There was a giant torta in Mexico City this week. The world’s longest torta sandwich was 229 feet long, and used 60 different ingredients! Thousands of flatbread pans were used in the annual feat. They’ve been making a bigger sandwich every year for the last 15 years!
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People in San Diego California were perplexed to see a line of bright lights appear in the night sky. People thought they looked like balls of fire floating in the sky. Could it be aliens? No, it was just the Navy dropping flares during a training exercise. All that excitement for nothing!
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