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May the Fourth be with you! I mean Force. May fourth is Star Wars Day! Star Wars movies are set in space a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. It’s actually National Space Day also, so you can celebrate all things outer spacey. Have an out-of-this-world day!
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You can travel nearly 20,000 miles through the ocean in a straight line without hitting land. But what about traveling on land? If you had a magic car with no steering wheel, that could travel over any terrain, and through man-made objects, the longest straight path would take you nearly 7000 miles from China to Portugal!
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The Los Angeles Zoo in California has many new baby animals to visit! There are 2 Chacoan Peccary piglets, that look like hairy pigs; 2 Sichuan takin calves, that are like goat-antelopes; 2 ocelot kittens, which are spotted wildcats; an Eastern bongo calf, which is a striped antelope; and 7 Peninsular pronghorn fawns, which resemble deer. What a baby boom!
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Optical illusions are images that play tricks on your brain. Kokichi Sugihara is a Japanese mathematician and optical illusionist who will astound you with his arrow that always points the same direction, or cylinders that are both round and square. You can see the impossible arrow and other cool stuff at physicsfun on Instagram.
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Do you ever wake up in the middle of a dream and forget what it was about? Scientists have discovered that taking a B6 vitamin before bed helped people remember their dreams. B6 is found in foods like whole grain cereals, bananas, spinach, avocados, legumes and potatoes. See if your dinner helps you remember your dream!
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Today’s going to be fun! It’s Two Different Colored Shoes Day! Walk proudly in your mismatched shoes. No need to be normal; it’s Paranormal Day! Celebrate the strange things that can’t be explained by science by watching Ghostbusters or Harry Potter. Then relax in the garden, because it’s National Garden Meditation Day.
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If you noticed a bunch of gnomes gathered in a mushroom shape in Atlanta Georgia, you weren’t seeing things. 755 people dressed up as garden gnomes, to break a world record! Chantelle Rytter and the Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons had been trying to gather enough participants for the last decade, and finally succeeded!
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Did you ever wonder how far you could travel through the ocean, in a straight line, before you hit land? If you set sail from Pakistan and never adjusted course, you’d pass between Africa and Madagascar, then between Antarctica and Tierra Del Fuego in South America, and finally end up in Russia nearly 20,000 miles later!
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Scientists have invented laser eyeballs! Well, not exactly… They actually created a thin film that emits laser light, and attached it to a contact lens. The lasers could also be attached to things like money or fingernails. Now they just have to figure out a good use for them, other than bragging about having laser eyes!
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There’s an ice cream shop in North Carolina that has an adorable mascot: Putter, the squirrel who loves ice cream cones! Scott and Pam Martin, owners of Fantasy Isle Ice Cream and Mini Golf, make tiny vanilla cones twice a day for Putter. Putt-Putt also likes to play with golf balls. Customers love him!
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