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Cynthia Strunk lives on the beach in Mississippi, where she’s seen many weddings take place. When she saw a wedding getting ruined by a huge thunderstorm, she told the bride, Dulce Gonzalez, to have it in her house instead! She quickly decorated, and hosted a beautiful wedding for grateful strangers. That was so nice!
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Elon Musk is best known for sending reuseable rockets to space, inventing the Tesla automobile, and developing hyperspeed underground trains. But he’s also using his innovative ideas to help communities in need. He provided solar batteries to Puerto Rico, and has pledged to replace any water pipes in Flint Michigan still contaminated with lead.
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Chaos! Ruckus! Commotion! It’s all good on Pandemonium Day! Enjoy a little noise and excitement by yelling, “Shark!” at the beach! Just kidding, please don’t cause panic. Instead, yell “Sharks are awesome!” because it’s Shark Awareness Day. You are 20 times more likely to get killed by a cow than a shark!
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82 year-old Shridhar Chillal from India, finally cut his fingernails. He’d been growing them since he was 14! He has held the record for longest fingernails since 1979. Shridhar had them cut at Ripley’s Believe It or Not in Times Square New York, where they’ll be on display. The nails average around 6 feet long!
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The father-son team of Phil and Anthony Butler’s company, Mars Bioimaging, unveiled a new kind of X-ray scanner. It records energy levels of the X-rays as they hit each particle in your body, then translates them into color. They are also 3 dimensional. 3D color X-rays of your broken arm would be awesome!
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The fossilized skull of a Gompotherium pyrenaicum, an extinct relative of the elephant, was found in France. The species had 2 extra tusks growing out of its lower jaw, which were flattened and probably used for digging. A farmer had found the skull in 2014, but didn’t want paleontologists digging up his land!
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In December, an asteroid was discovered orbiting the sun. It turns out there is a bonus asteroid! 2017 YE5 is actually 2 asteroids locked in a binary orbit. The asteroids are the same size, about 3000 feet in diameter, and are probably black because they are not very reflective. They orbit each other every 20 to 24 hours.
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Today is Friday the 13th, and it’s also Fry-day: National French Fry Day! Eat your fries while looking for some cool rocks to celebrate International Rock Day. Are they igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic? Today is also Embrace Your Geekness Day, so feel free to share every detail of your latest obsession!
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Scientists have found bones from a new dinosaur species called Ingentia prima, which means “first giant.” It grew in spurts instead of gradually. It’s evidence that dinosaurs may have started growing huge, 25 million years earlier than they previously believed. The new sauropodomorph comes from the Late Triassic period instead of the Jurassic period!
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Friday the 13th will bring a supermoon solar eclipse, but only a lucky few will see it. You’ll have to travel to the southern tip of Australia or New Zealand, the coast of Antarctica, or the ocean in between, to witness the moon blocking the sun! Too bad it’s only a partial eclipse!
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