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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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Today is National Truffle Day. The chocolate truffle is a ball of rich, creamy chocolate ganache, covered or filled with a variety of other ingredients. Delicious! Oh, you don’t like candy? Then you can eat the other kind of decadent truffle: the extremely expensive fungi grows underground and is found by truffle hogs or dogs.
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May and June will be great months to look at the planet Jupiter. It’ll be bright throughout the night, in the constellation Libra. While you’re planet-gazing, look for reddish Mars, and bright sparkling Venus. The mornings of May 4th and 5th, Saturn will be near the moon. Eta Aquariid meteors should peak that night! Watch those skies!
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Disney is taking Virtual Reality one step further. They’ve developed a Force Jacket, which has inflatable pockets to create “feel effects,” like a hug, or a snake slithering over your body! It can even give you the sensation of having big superhero muscles, or getting hit by a snowball! Ouch!
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