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The Knox County Humane Society in Illinois is the comfiest animal shelter ever. They’ve had dozens of armchairs donated to them, so their dogs and cats can be comfortable while they wait to be adopted. Other animal shelters are following in their pawsteps. Be prepared to share your favorite armchair with your new pet!
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March 10th is awesome because abbreviated, Mar 10 looks like Mario! Happy Mario Day! Playing the bagpipes is even more awesome. It’s International Bagpipe Day! The most awesome thing of all is that it’s The International Day of Awesomeness! No one’s perfect, but everyone can be awesome. Perform feats of awesomeness, like breathing. That’s AWESOME!
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A new kind of solar panel will be able to provide energy even when it rains, because it will also harvest energy from raindrops! The hybrid solar cells will use a triboelectric nanogenerator, or TENG, which creates an electric charge when two materials rub together, like raindrops on a solar panel.
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If you can take the perfect selfie, you must have five-foot long arms! Anything closer, and you are distorting your face. It’s like looking in a funhouse mirror. A photo taken from 12 inches away can make your nose look 30% wider. If you want a selfie photo that really looks like you, use a timer!
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Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,900 year-old home in Italy, 40 feet underground. While expanding Rome’s subway system, multiple fountains, pools, and 14 rooms were revealed. It was a military commander’s residence built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. The house has plaster paintings on the walls, floors covered in mosaics, and even a heating system!
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Drue Chrisman is a football player at Ohio State University, but he’s set a world record in a different sport. He’s a champion bottle flipper! He flipped 63 half-filled water bottles in one minute! He shows off his mastery of bottle flip tricks on YouTube. I can flip a bottle too. It just won’t land upright!
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Did someone do something that’s bugging you? (I’m looking at all of you brothers, haha!) Just get over it! Today is National Get Over It Day, a time to focus on being happy. It’s also the National Day of Unplugging. Try to go without technology all day. Wait, stop, don’t unplug ME!
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NASA’s Juno mission is uncovering some of Jupiter’s secrets. Its cyclones at its poles have polygonal shapes. A storm near the south pole is pentagon-shaped! Juno has also showed us Jupiter’s aurora, lights caused by electrical currents in the magnetosphere. It also revealed that Jupiter had deep zones and belts of clouds.
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The first polar bear cub to be born in the United Kingdom in 25 years just showed its adorable little face! The cub was born in December to mom Victoria at the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland, but it didn’t leave its mother’s den until now. At least it didn’t miss all the snow!
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“Good boy! You’re such a cute widdle doggie!” Do you talk to your dog like he’s a baby? Research shows they actually love it! Researchers tested adult dogs to see if they reacted like puppies, and found they respond most to high-pitched emotional speech using dog relevant words. Whowantstogo forawalk?
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