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Are you irresistible to mosquitoes? They are attracted to some people’s odors more than others. Researchers found you can train mosquitoes to avoid your odor by swatting at them and waving your arms around. Air vibrations make them uncomfortable, so they will avoid you for the day and bite your friend instead!
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It’s Sandcastle Day, so get to a beach and start building! It’s going to take you a while if you want to beat the record for the world’s biggest sandcastle. That one is in Germany, and it’s nearly 58 feet tall! They were smart, and built it far away from the high tide line!
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Today is Mustard Day. Whether you like bright yellow mustard squeezed from a bottle, or coarse brown mustard full of crunchy mustard seeds, you can put it on anything! It’s Watermelon Day too, so go ahead and squirt mustard on your melon, and gross everybody out! Who knows? It might even taste good!
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Texas uses more coal than any other state in the U.S. But for the first time, wind power generated more energy than coal power. Texas has more than 13,000 wind turbines, which can generate 24 gigawatts of clean energy per year! That’s great news for Texas!
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When you go to a farmer’s market, you’ll usually find stalls selling fruits and vegetables, honey, maybe baked goods or crafts. A market in Utah has a stand for “Old Coots Giving Advice!” 6 retired friends who met every Saturday, are telling their same old stories to a new audience, for free!
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Wouldn’t it be nice, if your plants could show emotions? A new flowerpot has a digital face, that tells you how it’s feeling! The Lua Planter’s face pants when the soil is too dry, sweats when it’s too hot, or turns into a vampire when it needs more sun! Be friends with your plant!
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Ariel Rigney lost her leg in a car accident as a teenager, and continued life with a prosthetic leg. While rafting on the Clackamas River in Oregon, she lost that leg too! She posted about her lost limb on Facebook. Scuba-diver Eric Ganter was looking for its lost owner, and the two were reunited!
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Get your crayons or colored pencils out, because it’s Coloring Book Day! Next put your books away so they don’t get wet, because it’s Water Balloon Day. Ice Cream Sandwich Day is also taking place. Do you want your ice cream on wheat or white bread? Just kidding! Use cookies!
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Pouring cereal in a bowl, then pouring milk in the bowl, then eating it before it gets soggy, is so tedious. Instead, you could get a CrunchCup! Two cups are combined: one for your cereal, and one for your milk. They have separate holes, so they don’t meet until they’re in your mouth!
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Architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello created a great way for kids to play together, even though a wall was separating them. They installed see-saws through the border fence between the United States and Mexico. Kids have fun together, no matter where they were born. It’s a good lesson to teach adults!
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