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Taking a photo of yourself with your pet can be frustrating, if they won’t look at the camera. That’s why there’s the Cat Selfie. It’s a hanging bell, that clips to the top of your phone. The ringing sound attracts your cat’s attention! I’m sure it would work for other animals, and babies too!
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It’s International Orangutan Day, celebrating the expressive orange-haired apes. They are an endangered species, found only in Borneo and Sumatra. While orangutans grow only about 5 feet tall, their arm span can reach 7 feet from tip to tip! Palm oil plantations are the biggest threat to the wild population, destroying their rainforest homes.
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The perfect thing to do today would be, to fly around in a little plane, taking pictures of potato fields, with bows in your hair. That’s because it’s International Bow Day, World Photography Day, Potato Day, and Aviation Day. At the very least, spoon mashed potatoes into your mouth like an airplane!
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Aiden and Chloe Quezada might be only 6 and 4 years old, but they’re busy raising money to buy school supplies for kids and teachers. Their family started making their favorite snack, pinwheel crisps, to sell in Minnesota. They’ve already made a profit of $460, and made their first donation to Stuff The Bus’s school supply drive!
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When Caleb Smith was 9 years old, he saw that many people who bought rabbits, grew tired of them. He didn’t have room to rescue them all, so he started a foster program. 300 families have fostered rabbits so far. He’s now 15, and has his own island for all the rabbits, called Peacebunny Island!
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Over a decade ago, fossilized bird bones were found in New Zealand, and stored on a shelf. A graduate student recently took a closer look at the 16,000,000-year-old leg bones, and the research team discovered they were actually from a prehistoric parrot! Nicknamed Squawkzilla, it was as large as a human child!
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When Autumn arrives, so does Pumpkin Spice-flavored everything. Some of those foods are already hitting the grocery stores. One product was originally an April Fools joke: Pumpkin Spice Spam. The company decided to actually put the flavored canned meat on the market. I think I’ll stick to pumpkin spice lattes!
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Roses are red. Violets are blue. Some poems rhyme, but this one doesn’t. It’s Bad Poetry Day! Write a really bad poem for fun. It might be so bad, it’s good! It’s also Fajita Day. When you order a fajita you get your own sizzling pan of veggies, and tortillas to wrap them up!
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It’s rare to see a payphone in the United States anymore, but a new one was installed in Takoma Park Maryland. If you try to make a phone call, you’ll be surprised to hear bird calls instead! Musician David Schulman created the art installation. Each button plays the sound of a different local bird.
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A pink seaweed called asparagopsis, helps cows burp less. Australian researchers found that adding a small amount of the seaweed to a cow’s diet, could reduce harmful methane gas emissions from cows by 99%! If they grow enough to feed to all the cows in the world, it will really help Earth’s climate.
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