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Is Hostess serious, or just pranking everyone? The snack food company posted a picture of a new variety of Twinkies. What do you think of Peanut Butter and Pickle Sandwich flavor? The weird combination might be okay as a sandwich, but a filling for sponge cake? We’ll have to wait and see!
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Today is Swap Ideas Day. Everyone think of a good idea, then trade! If you’re thinking of dinner ideas, remember it’s also TV Dinner Day and Ants On A Log Day. Ants on a log is celery spread with peanut butter and topped with raisins, and TV dinners are frozen meals! Heat and eat!
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LEGO bricks might feel like Braille, with their raised dots, but the instruction manuals are no help to blind people. Matthew Shifrin has been translating manuals into Braille and audio instructions on his website, LEGO for the Blind. Now, the LEGO Group agreed to develop Matthew’s ideas, to launch more audio and braille manuals!
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The Vollebak company is making t-shirts out of wood pulp, printed with ink made from algae. They’re made with recycled water, and the eucalyptus, beech, and spruce trees used to make the yarn, are sustainably sourced. At the end of the Plant and Algae T-Shirt’s lifespan, you compost it by burying it!
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Swiss artist Klaus Littmann, is drawing attention to the Earth’s changing climate with his latest art installation. He’s turned a football stadium in Austria, into a forest. Littmann filled the Wörthersee Stadium with 300 trees weighing up to 6 tons each. “For Forest- The Unending Attraction of Nature,” will be replanted after the exhibit ends.
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A Florida elementary school student wanted to represent his favorite team on his school’s College Colors Day, so he made his own University of Tennessee Volunteers clothing. He wrote U-of-T on a piece of paper and stuck it to a shirt. The University loved his creativity, and is making it an official design!
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Ok all you weirdos, here’s the day you’ve been waiting for. It’s Wonderful Weirdos Day! Be proud to be different; it makes the world a more interesting place. It’s also Teddy Bear Day. When President Teddy Roosevelt was nice to a bear cub in 1902, the first stuffed bear toy was named after him.
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When the 2020 Guinness Book of World Records comes out, Nilanshi Patel will be in it. She had a bad experience with a haircut when she was 6 years old, and decided she wasn’t going to cut her hair anymore. 10 years later, her record-length hair is 5 feet 7 inches long, and takes an hour to comb!
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An Ohio fairground reported an unusual theft. Someone stole a roller coaster! A traffic camera recorded the Go-Gator kiddie coaster loaded onto a flatbed trailer, with a pick-up truck driving it away. The roller coaster, worth $50,000, should be hard to hide, so hopefully the thief will be caught!
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Jermaine Bell was supposed to be going to Disney World for his 7th birthday today, but he decided there was something more important to do with that money. He and his parents bought food for people that had to evacuate their South Carolina homes, because of Hurricane Dorian. Happy Birthday Jermaine, and thank you!
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