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The University of Arkansas has opened an exhibit of artist Jason Mecier’s collages. He can make a portrait of anybody out of anything: like Judge Judy out of Hot Tamales, Kevin Bacon out of bacon, and Willie Nelson out of stuff from the junk drawer! Mecier recycles trash into amazing art!
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Henry and Baloo are best friends that love to hike together. They’re also a dog and cat! The unlikely pair share their adventures on Instagram at henry the colorado dog with over half a million followers! Their adopted humans, Cynthia Bennett and Andre Sibilsky, take the pictures while Baloo rides on Henry’s head!
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Forget about cleaning the house today; it’s National No Housework Day anyway. Instead, grab your pillow! It’s International Pillow Fight Day, and cities around the world from New York to London to Hong Kong will be holding gigantic pillow fights! Look online to find one near you, or just go hit your brother with a pillow.
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Jack Reynolds has discovered the trick to breaking world records: get older! His recent tradition is setting a new record on his birthday, becoming the oldest person to receive their first tattoo, and to ride a non-inversion rollercoaster. Today, on his 106th birthday, he became the oldest person to ride a zip line! Happy Birthday Jacko!
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Last week, the audience at Future Con learned all about BB-8. The latest Star Wars films actually use 7 different versions of the lovable droid! From the “Bowling Ball BB-8” who would just get lobbed through the shot, to the “Wiggler” used for close-ups, to the remote-controlled “Red Carpet BB-8”, the robot rolled right into everyone’s hearts!
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Derek Woo, a high school senior in Connecticut, invented a way to help save honeybees. Entire colonies can die off when bees ingest insecticides, often by drinking contaminated water that collects on the ends of leaves. Derek found that mixing charcoal into the plants’ soil, makes the water safe! Farmers using biochar will save bees!
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Nazca lines are massive drawings in the desert in Peru. The geoglyphs are so huge that you can only properly see the patterns from the air, but they were made 13 to 18 hundred years ago. Now archaeologists have discovered even older geoglyphs nearby! The Paracas and Topara people created giant pictures on hillsides more than 2200 years ago!
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Yum-yummy-yum, today is National Caramel Popcorn Day! The salty-sweet treat has been around since the 18-hundreds. It’s National Teflon Day too. If you make your own caramel corn, you’ll be thanking Roy Plunket for inventing Teflon, or polytetraflouroethylene, and Marion Trozzolo for the Happy Pan. Teflon is the non-stick coating that makes cookware easy to clean!
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14 year-old Jayera Griffin saved all year for her spring break, but she didn’t travel far. She used her $1000 to pay for a free laundry day at her local laundromat in Riverdale Illinois! Some children she tutors don’t have washing machines, and sometimes can’t afford to do laundry. Jayera is already planning her next free laundry day.
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Are you good at Jenga, the game where you pull wooden blocks out of a tower without toppling it? YouTuber Pat McAfee’s dad is a Jenga master. Playing Giant Jenga for the first time, Tim McAfee managed to remove a center block holding up half the tower. The top half dropped neatly onto the stack below. Amazing!
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