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It’s Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day! Each minute, more than 6,000,000 cubic feet of water gushes over Niagara Falls, a group of 3 waterfalls on the border of United States and Canada. On this day in 1848, the rivers feeding Niagara Falls froze and the water completely stopped for the only time in recorded history!
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A museum in Sydney Australia was surprised to find that a coffin they’d thought was empty for 150 years, actually held a mummy! The 2500 year old sarcophagus had been donated saying it had mixed debris in it. The skull is filled with resin, similar to King Tut’s skull, so Egyptologists are excited to study it!
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Can you jog 50 miles? Can you juggle? Can you do both at the same time in less than 8 hours? Rick Kwiatkowski from Charlottesville Virginia did it! He broke the world record for fastest 50 mile joggling. The International Jugglers’ Association holds Joggling World Championships every year in Springfield Massachusetts, so start practicing!
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Forget forks today; it’s National Something On A Stick Day! Pierce your peas with a toothpick, freeze your juice on a popsicle stick, and skewer your entire dinner on a kebab. Dip strawberries on a chopstick in chocolate fondue. Then roast marshmallows on a stick over a campfire! Everything’s better cooked on a stick!
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I got so excited talking about things on sticks that I forgot to tell you it’s Manatee Appreciation Day! Manatees, also known as sea cows, are slow-moving mammals about 10 feet long. They live in warm shallow waters and graze on underwater vegetation. Baby manatees drink milk from their mom’s armpit!
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Convincing your parents to get a puppy takes persistence. An 8 year-old Maryland girl launched a 3-month campaign and analyzed her dad’s habits. She created her own headline on his morning newspaper begging for a puppy, which was shared on Twitter, retweeted by Harry Potter author JK Rowling, and they now have a puppy named JK Growling!
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Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computer science at a middle school in Ghana, but the school doesn’t have any computers. He has been drawing diagrams of computer programs on the chalkboard for 6 years! After a photo of his classroom went viral on Facebook, Microsoft is giving the school an entire computer lab!
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has plans to create transportation tunnels under California and the East Coast of the United States. He has raised money by selling hats, flamethrowers, and now interlocking rocks! Giant Lego-like bricks made from the rock dug out of the tunnels will be sold in kits, the first one being Ancient Egypt.
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If you are in London today and see a bunch of men on top of buildings, don’t worry. American artists Mark Jenkins and Sandra Fernandez made the sculptures! Mark’s sculptures made out of packaging tape look like real people, but they might be embedded in a wall or hanging out on a lamppost. Maybe you’ll spot one someday!
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Josephs, Joeys, Josephines, get ready: today is National Joe Day. Joe is also a nickname for coffee. It’s also Quirky Country Music Song Title Day. “My T-Rex Ran Away With All My Legos and All I’ve Got to Drink is This Cup of Old Joe” would be a great song title. Now YOU make one up!
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