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Six Flags Great Adventure theme park had a giant snowball fight scheduled, but had to cancel it because of snow! They wanted to gather 9000 people for a fight using fake pluff snowballs to set a world record. Saskatoon Canada holds the true snowball fight record with 7681 people hurling real snowballs! DUCK!
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The Great Barrier Reef is an ecosystem of coral reefs over 1400 miles long off the coast of Australia. It’s the largest living thing on Earth. But pollution, climate change and coral bleaching are killing the reef. Scientists have been able to transplant healthy coral to help nurse the reef back to health.
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54 years ago the first cat was launched into space. But the travels of Felicette the cat have been largely forgotten. Matthew Serge Guy decided to raise money to give Felicette her own statue. Artist Gill Parker will create the sculpture which will be installed in the Astrocat’s hometown of Paris France.
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When MIT student Anirudh Sharma went home to India, he noticed his clothes accumulating soot from air pollution. He started the Graviky Labs where scientists invented a plasma-filled device to clean the air. The KAALINK catches particulate matter from tailpipes and factory chimneys. They turn the particles into ink for artists to use!
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The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people known for his great wisdom. The 82 year-old Buddhist monk now has his own app! You can get the Dalai Lama app for your iPhone to listen to his teachings on compassion and spirituality for a daily dose of app-iness!
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A French sailor just sailed around the world by himself, and it only took him 42 days! Francois Gabart circumnavigated the globe 6 days faster than the previous record. He sailed from France on a trimaran, which is a sailing yacht with one main hull and two outer floats attached by beams. They are nearly unsinkable.
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The new Star Wars movie is a big deal for fans, but what if you were stuck in space and couldn’t go see it? NASA is working on it! Astronauts on the International Space Station will soon get to watch The Last Jedi while orbiting 250 miles above Earth.
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The president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, declared Revillagigedo Archipelago a National Park. At 57,000 square miles, it is the largest ocean reserve in North America and is home to many species of sharks, rays, endangered sea turtles, and fish. The area is now protected from fishing, oil drilling and other development.
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A 12 year-old boy from Annandale Virginia has set a third world record. Caleb Hymans set a world record for 11 year-olds running a 10K race in under 38 minutes. Then he became the fastest 12 year-old running another 10K. Now he’s broken his own record, running the 10K in 35 minutes 34 seconds. That’s one fast kid!
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If you’re headed to Disney World over your winter break, you’re in for a treat. Two tiger cubs were just introduced in Florida at Disney’s Animal Kingdom! 4-month old Anala and Jeda are Sumatran tigers born inside the park. There are less than 500 left in the wild.
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