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If you see someone with a dirt smudge on their forehead today, it’s probably not because they’re messy. Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian period of fasting before Easter called Lent. Some people wear ashes as a sign of repentance. You still have to wash your face!
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Saint Valentine was a priest put to death in the third century, but legends vary as to the reason why. His feast day evolved into a celebration of love in the Middle Ages. The best reason to celebrate today is to show appreciation to people in your life. And to eat chocolate!
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SpotMini is a robot dog created by Boston Dynamics. You might have seen past videos of it slipping on a banana peel or loading the dishwasher, but the robot dog has learned a new trick. SpotMini can now open doors! It even has nice manners and holds the door open for its robot friends.
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Ten years ago in Apollo Pennsylvania, the Suiverveld’s lost their dog. They eventually gave up looking for Abby, thinking she had died. An animal shelter called them recently announcing, “We have your dog!” They had tracked them down through the black lab’s microchip, and Abby is now reunited with her overjoyed family!
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Garbage collectors in Ankara Turkey are literary heroes. They started rescuing discarded books and collected so many, they opened a library! Located at the sanitation department’s headquarters, the library is open to the public and also loans books to schools and prisons. Now people donate books to the library instead of trashing them!
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Ho hum. Another banana that I have to peel before I eat it, and then discard the peel where no one will slip on it. But, what’s this? A banana with a peel you can eat! D&T Farm in Japan developed the Mongay banana with an edible skin, but they only sell 10 per week!
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You can call today Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Carnival, Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday. The day before Ash Wednesday, the start of a Christian period of fasting called Lent, is a good excuse for parties and overindulgence. For days of parades and celebrations, visit New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Venice, Nice France, or Goa India.
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Los Angeles is the latest city to use a new way to raise money for charity. They unveiled 6 parking meters to collect change for the homeless. Denver, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Detroit, Pasadena, and Indianapolis have similar programs. The meters have happy faces painted on them because it feels good to help others!
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The next time you scrape yourself on a rock in a tide pool, keep an eye on it. A boy’s parents noticed his arm looked infected, and the doctor found a tiny sea snail growing in it! He took it home for a pet. Another boy named his knee-snail Turbo. Growing your own pet is cool!
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When SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun last week, they also sent a Solar Library. A coin-sized disc made of quartz crystal called an Arch holds 360 terabytes of data, including Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” trilogy. The Arch can last 14 billion years. The overdue fines would be astronomical!
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