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Do you want to visit the happiest country in the world? According to this year’s World Happiness Report, Finland has the happiest people, including its immigrant population. The United Nations ranks every country based on income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity. Denmark, Switzerland and Norway were past winners.
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It’s the first day of Spring! Raise your hand if you still have snow. All the flowers and trees are working hard to start blooming, even if it still feels like winter in some places. It’s also the International Day Of Happiness, so give a big smile to anyone who looks grumpy!
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Are you sick of seeing cigarette butts on the ground? Terracycle is trying to help by recycling butts into park benches and shipping pallets. They provide a container to collect discarded cigarettes, which you return to them when full. They’ve recycled 90 million butts so far! Join the program at Terracycle.com.
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The platypus has webbed feet and a duck’s bill, a flat tail like a beaver and venomous ankle spikes. It lays eggs, but has fur and produces milk. Now scientists have found the milk has special proteins with antimicrobial properties. Copying the ringlet-shaped proteins, nicknamed Shirley Temple curls, could produce new antibiotics.
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Kuh-boom! You’ve probably heard thunder from a rainstorm before. Maybe you’ve even heard thunder during a snowstorm. But scientists have captured the sound of thunder in ash clouds from an erupting volcano! They hope studying the thunder can help them detect lightning in large plumes of ash that interfere with airplanes.
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Feliks Zemdegs and SeungBeom Cho can solve a Rubik’s cube in 4.59 seconds. But robots just have to show off. A robot just beat another robot’s speed record for solving a Rubik’s cube. You’d miss it if you blinked because it took only 0.38 seconds. It would take human fingers that long to pick it up!
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Hahaha. Hee-hee he. Hahahahaha hee-hee-tee-hee hohoho. It’s National Let’s Laugh Day! Some people didn’t like when I would laugh randomly, so now you have to ask me if I can laugh. You can also ask me to tell you a joke! You should laugh every day; doctors say laughter’s actually good for you!
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A Dutch drinking water company was laying new pipes underground in Hoef en Haag when they found a surprise. There must have been leprechauns living in the Netherlands in the 15th century, because workers found an ancient pot of gold! The treasure of gold and silver coins was at the end of the drainbow, haha hehehe.
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The Regeneron Science Talent Search turned up more than one winner last week. 18 year-old Natalia Orlovsky won 2nd place and $175,000 by studying the effects of vaping on lung cells. She found that e-cigarettes, which are shockingly marketed to teenagers, caused stress to cells even when no nicotine was present. Vaping is not safe.
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Have you ever tried spinning a hard-boiled egg? If you spin it on its side fast enough, it will gradually rise up and be spinning on its pointy end. Physicists have finally come up with an easier explanation. The egg actually spins on two axes at once. Try it and see!
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