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There’s a new castle in New York City, and it’s made out of sand! The sand castle, created by sculptor Ted Siebert, stands 16 feet high. It’s part of the Rockefeller Center’s “Sand and Surf” installation in the Channel Gardens. You can visit it until September 7th. I wonder who gets to knock it down!
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Anna Hofstetter is a mom who works 3 jobs to support her children. She was at her bartender job, when a generous couple gave her a 1000 dollar tip to help her kids! She decided to help all the kids in the community instead, by donating it to help pay for a new skate park!
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What’s on your “To do” list? Maybe yours includes, take out the trash, or clean your room. The “To do” list of artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci, was a little more ambitious. Written in 1490, it includes finding out how mortars were positioned, learning how to repair canals, and measuring the sun!
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The best place to enjoy some of today’s holidays will be at the seashore. It’s National Lighthouse Day, Beach Party Day, and Sea Serpent Day! Your packages can wait for you at home. Maybe you’ll get a delivery that’s impossible to open, for Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day. Good luck!
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Sometimes zoos hold a contest when a new baby is born, where people can vote for their favorite name. The North Carolina Zoo took it one step further, by letting a baby rhino’s father make the final decision. Stormy had 3 poles labeled Diana, Nandi and Mamba, to choose from. He picked Nandi, the Zulu Queen!
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A dog in Texas named Baloo, loves to play in the water sprinkler. The 5 month-old pup loves it so much, that he decided to bring it inside! Baloo dragged the sprinkler in through his doggie door, soaking the living room, the television, and his humans! He must have wanted to share the fun.
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Scientists have listed some of the worst smells in the world. They include durian fruit, the stinking corpse lily flower, Vieux Boulogne cheese, the lesser anteater, and the planet Uranus. They found that bad smells have heavier, more spread-out molecules. Maybe the molecules want to get away from each other, because they stink!
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Physicists have all the fun. They’ve managed to twist beams of laser light into knots! Researchers used polarization and holograms, to manipulate the vibrating particles of light. They tied many complex knots in order to study the spaces in between, which are known as Seifert surfaces. I wonder if they can tie laser shoelaces?
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Grab some vanilla ice cream and some root beer. Today is Root Beer Float Day! It was called a black cow when it was first invented in 1893. Drink it while giving your toes some freedom in the sand, grass or water. It’s National Wiggle Your Toes Day!
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Last week, residents in Boise Idaho woke up to find 118 goats, eating everything in the neighborhood! Goats can be clever escape artists, and these ones had broken through a fence in a nearby field. The goats were rounded up and returned home. No one will need to mow their lawn this week!
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