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In South Australia, the power was going out a lot, and the backup system for the electrical grid was expensive. Elon Musk, who runs the alternative energy company Tesla, built a gigantic lithium ion battery to use as a new backup system. 6 months later, the battery has already saved over $25 million for Australians!
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Here’s a great recycling idea for the end of the school year. Put a box out at your school to collect old, dried up markers. Then go to the Crayola website, print out a free shipping label, and Fed Ex will pick up and deliver them to Crayola to recycle! Great job!
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Today is National Chocolate Chip Day! Chocolate bars used to be sold with a little chopping tool before chocolate chips were invented. Put some in your pancakes, cookies, and spaghetti! Okay, maybe not in your spaghetti. It’s also National Straw Hat Day! If you don’t have a straw hat to wear, just stick a straw in a hat!
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A new factory in Bahrain opened with a big world record. Since the factory will be making Oreo cookies, they created a 161 pound Oreo! The world’s largest cream filled biscuit looks exactly like a regular Oreo, but 6495 times bigger! The workers and spectators got to eat the giant wheel of delicious-ness!
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The British House of Commons is hoping to protect bees, moths and butterflies in Britain by passing the Protection of Pollinators Bill. It would allow conservationists to help plant wildflowers and shrubberies in B-Lines throughout the country. The corridors will let pollinators travel easily in urban areas, and make animals and people happy too!
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90 year-old Miyoko Saiki and her son play the internet game, Words With Friends, every morning before he goes to work. The game keeps her mind sharp, but she says it also saved her life. When her son didn’t see her online one morning, he went to her house and found her unconscious. She’s all better now! Archive
NASA is planning the next mission to Mars, and they’ll be sending along a tiny helicopter! The 4-pound drone will need to be able to work autonomously, meaning it can make some decisions on its own. It will also have to spin its blades 10 times faster since Mars has almost no atmosphere. Awesome!
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Quick, who knows the Chicken Dance? It’s Dance Like A Chicken Day! The Chicken Dance song was written in the 1950’s, so millions of people can teach you the fun dance moves. Then you should play some more current music for chickens. I’m sure they’ve got a few new moves they can show you!
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Surfers in California, get ready. In about a week, energy from a massive storm in the Southern Hemisphere will travel across the ocean. A buoy near Campbell Island, south of New Zealand, recorded the largest known wave in the Southern Hemisphere: over 78 feet high! The buoy doesn’t record every wave, meaning others could have been even bigger!
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Artist Matthew Denton in Martinsburg, West Virginia wants to bring his community together to create art, so he created a space in his own backyard! Along with artist David Heatwole, he held the 222 Fence Project so that everyone could paint a board on his fence. The result will be a mural with 222 individual works of art!
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