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Costa Coffee is the largest coffee chain in the UK. They sell around half a billion drinks in paper cups every year, but the cups weren’t getting recycled. The solution? Costa will pay the waste management companies $106 per ton to take used paper cups to paper mills for recycling! Awesome!
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Have you ever gotten a pizza delivered that had a little white plastic thing stuck in the middle? It’s called a pizza saver, and it’s meant to keep the cheese from sticking to the lid. But it looks like a tiny table. Now you can get a tiny pizza chair to go with your pizza table at Shapeways.com!
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Today is National High Five Day, a good excuse to give everyone you see a congratulatory hello! It’s also National Hanging Out Day; dry your clothes the old-fashioned way by hanging them on a clothesline. Of course, if it’s raining, you can just hang out and wait by the clothes dryer.
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Brynjar Karl Bigisson, from Iceland, loved learning about the Titanic when he was 10. He decided to build a 26 foot-long Lego Titanic after visiting Legoland in Denmark. Brynjar is on the autism spectrum. The massive project helped him communicate with others, while also earning a record for the world’s largest Lego Titanic, with 56,000 bricks!
Sometimes even when you see it, you can’t believe it. Software exists that uses multiple photos of people to create realistic videos of them saying things they never said. Unfortunately, these convincing videos, called deepfakes, are already beginning to show up. If you see a photo or video that seems unbelievable, research it before you accept it as true!
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Most people know you can get a kidney transplant. But have you heard of poop transplants? Gut bacteria affect more than just your digestion. The microorganisms living in your digestive system also affect your immune system, metabolism, and even your brain! Adding someone else’s healthy gut microbiota can be an effective medical treatment!
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Enzymes are substances in plants and animals that speed up biochemical reactions. Japanese scientists had found one enzyme that could digest plastic. While studying that, scientists accidentally created a super-enzyme that can eat plastic in only a few days! They are working on ways to use this exciting discovery to save our planet from plastic trash!
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Today is Pet Owners Independence Day. On this wacky holiday, people are supposed to switch places with their pets. You get to lay around and get fed, while your pet goes to work or school, and yells at you for pooping in the wrong spot, hee-hee. Or you could just eat animal crackers for Animal Cracker Day!
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The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. welcomed a new baby on Sunday: a Western Lowland gorilla! Moke which means little one in Lingala, is the zoo’s first newborn gorilla in 9 years. The Great Ape House will be closed for a while to give Moke and his mother, Calaya, some privacy.
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Who are the tough guys of the water? Sharks, with their 300 teeth? Electric eels, with their shocking touch? Jellyfish, with their venomous tentacles? How about the stonefish: they have switchblade cheekbones! Stonefish have lachrymal sabers, which are bones that deploy horizontally under the eyes, and fold back in after they’ve warned you to back off!
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