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There’s more to do than see the Super Bowl if you’re in Saint Paul Minnesota today. You can ride on the world’s longest zip line across the Mississippi River! The Bold North Zip Line is 110 feet tall and nearly 800 feet long. 10,000 tickets have been sold for the quickest way across the Mississippi.
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A cow in Poland has been spending the winter with new friends. She escaped her farmyard pen and is hanging out with a herd of wild bison! The wild bison population had gone extinct after World War One, but a small herd has been growing from a few captive survivors.
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Today is National Homemade Soup Day and National Create a Vacuum Day. It’s easy enough to make some soup; there are thousands of recipes. But how do you create a vacuum, where the pressure inside a space is lower than the pressure outside of it? Try a suction cup!
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A neighborhood in Los Angeles California had an unusual group of visitors. A donkey was leading a herd of sheep and goats on a midnight stroll. The police helped round up the animals and return them to a nearby neighborhood, where they’d escaped through an unsecured gate.
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Ray Stanford was driving out of the NASA parking lot in Greenbelt Maryland when he spotted a dinosaur footprint. It was a 110 million year-old nodosaur print, and it wasn’t the only one. The sandstone preserved a Cretaceous moment in time with 70 footprints, a tubular worm and a coprolite, which is fossilized dinosaur poop!
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The Super Bowl takes place tomorrow in the United States to determine this year’s football champions. But millions of people like watching even cuter contests: the Puppy Bowl, Kitten Bowl, or Dog Bowl! Many of this year’s animal players came from hurricane impacted areas and all are available for adoption.
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Wing Bowl is an annual eating contest held in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the Friday before the Super Bowl. This year’s winner, Molly Schuyler, ate an unbelievable 501 Buffalo wings in 30 minutes. She can also eat a 72 ounce steak in 3 minutes and a 5 pound pizza with ghost pepper sauce. The 127 pound competitive eater is hard to beat!
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Today is National Carrot Cake Day. This is a delicious way to eat your vegetables! Carrots are really good for you, so why not stick a whole carrot on top of your cake? If you want to have it for a birthday party, get a big carrot. The longest carrot ever was 20 feet long!
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Fossils from the Late Cretaceous period 100 to 66 million years ago are rarely found in Egypt. But a big one was just uncovered in the Sahara Desert! Mansourasaurus was a plant-eating sauropod with a long tail, long neck, and bony plates embedded in its skin. It is part of the Titanosauria group of sauropods.
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Researchers studying the Centaurus A galaxy found that dwarf galaxies are orbiting it on a plane instead of hanging around it like bees around a hive. The Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are also orbited by dwarf galaxies on a plane, but it was believed they were unusual exceptions. Apparently not!
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