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The Fortnite World Cup is going on this weekend, and 100 people will compete for the grand prize of $3,000,000 in the solos today. One of the youngest players is 15-year-old Benjy Fish, from Surrey England. He’s been training for 12 hours a day, and began home-school earlier in the year, to have more flexibility for gaming.
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Do you know how to knit? Have you ever thought about knitting a fence? Anne Euson uses giant knitting needles made from curtain poles, and the black twine used in fishing nets, to knit beautiful lace fences! It took her about 3 weeks to knit enough fencing to surround her garden in the Shetland Islands.
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It’s World Nature Conservation Day. Start your morning with a nature walk outdoors. Don’t forget a bag, to pick up any trash you find. Reward yourself with a candy bar, since it’s Milk Chocolate Day! It’s also Waterpark Day. Time to slip down some water slides, or plunge into a wave pool!
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Pro soccer players Harry Kane, Dele Alli, and Eril Lamela, found some tough competition in China. The Tottenham Hotspur players, played a match against a team of 100 children! The swarm of 6 to 10-year-old kids were ruthless, and the game ended in a 1-to-1 draw. At the end, there were t-shirts and high-fives for all.
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When the 20 20 Olympics take place next summer in Tokyo Japan, they’ll need around 5000 medals to hand out to winners. The Tokyo 2020 Medal Project, was created to collect phones and electronics, to recycle into medals. They extracted 71 pounds of gold, 7,700 pounds of silver, and 4,580 pounds of bronze from 158,000,000 pounds of donated electronics. Wow!
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It’s been the summer of a lifetime for University of California student Harrison Duran, and biology professor Michael Kjelland. They discovered a 65,000,000-year-old Triceratops skull in the Badlands of North Dakota! Duran has had a passion for dinosaurs since he was a baby, so finding Alice, the fossil’s nickname, was a dream come true!
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There’s already Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, but your parents are pretty great, and deserve another day to celebrate them. Today is Parents’ Day, so stop rolling your eyes at them! Instead, roll some dice with them, and learn to play Dungeons and Dragons. It’s also Gary Gygax Day. He created D-and-D in 1974.
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Today is Walk On Stilts Day. You might have to make your own stilts so you can tower over everyone. Once you’ve practiced, you can also celebrate Take Your Houseplant For A Walk Day. Your plant will enjoy some unfiltered sunshine, and on stilts, it’ll be even closer to the sky!
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The Globe of Death is dead. A circus stunt cage in which motorcycles ride in circles, fell off the back of a pick-up truck while it was being transported through New Jersey. No one was injured, but the accident did close the road for a while. The Globe of Death lost that round!
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4 years ago, David Hole found a big rock while he was out prospecting for gold in Australia. The weight made him think there was a gold nugget inside, but he couldn’t get it open no matter how hard he tried. It turned out to be a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite, much more rare than gold.
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