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In August 1939, The Wizard of Oz was released in movie theaters. In honor of its 80th anniversary, 4 patients at West Penn Hospital in Pennsylvania, dressed up as the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Dorothy. The patients weren’t exactly fans of the movie yet, because they are newborns! They looked adorable!
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Today is Sponge Cake Day. This light and airy cake is perfect with a cup of tea! Maybe it will make you feel light and airy enough to rise into the sky! It’s also Ride The Wind Day, so go sky diving or hang gliding! Or maybe just fly a kite.
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Some people were surprised to go to a play in Canada, that had a dozen dogs in the audience! The performance of Billy Elliot: The Musical, was part of the poochies’ training to become service dogs. The theater outing helps canines get used to crowds and unusual lights. The good dogs were very well-behaved!
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A conspiracy theory about the nonexistence of the German city of Bielefeld, could make you a millionaire. All you have to do is prove the theory is true. The 800-year-old city will award 1.1 million dollars to anyone who proves it doesn’t exist. But a-ha! If it doesn’t exist, how can it award the money?
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7th-grader Diesel Pippert earned $15,000 at the county fair, by selling animals. He then took all of his earnings, and donated them to the Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital! His generosity is inspiring others to donate as well. The Western Reserves School District in Ohio is very proud of their young hero!
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The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York, has 2 Amur leopard cubs, that just had healthy 6-week check-ups. The cubs mom and dad, Tria and Rafferty, are part of the Species Survival Plan. Less than 90 Amur leopards remain in the wild, due to habitat loss in Russia from logging and farming. They are now protected!
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Conservationists may have just saved a frog species from extinction. The Loa water frog’s only known habitat is a stream in the Atacama desert in Chile. The team of researchers rescued the last 14 of the endangered frogs, just before the stream dried up. The water disappeared due to mining, agriculture, and real estate development.
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Quick, cover your kitty’s ears. It’s Take Your Cat To The Vet Day. They need their vaccinations just like humans! It’s also Eat A Peach Day. A big, juicy, peach, is delicious on a hot summer day. Since today’s also Be An Angel Day, do nice things for people. Like giving them a peach!
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No matter how bad a diaper smells, you still can’t toss it out the window. A driver in Indiana got a ticket for littering, when a stinky diaper came flying out the back window and hit a police officer’s car. Aside from being hazardous to drivers, littering is just rude to the planet!
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Researchers using data from NASA’s Kepler telescope, believe there could be Earth-like planets orbiting around 1 in 4 stars. That means there could be up to 10,000,000,000 planets like ours, in the Milky Way galaxy alone! Earth-sized planets of a habitable temperature, that orbit their stars at a distance that could support liquid water, aren’t that uncommon!
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