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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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Keven Walgamott lost part of his left arm and hand in an accident years ago, but he recently tested out a new high-tech arm. The prototype has fingers that are controlled by his thoughts! The arm is named LUKE, after Star Wars’s Luke Skywalker, who lost his hand in a light saber battle!
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Today is Coffee Milkshake Day, as well as Bagelfest Day. You can have your coffee and bagels like the grown-ups, but your coffee will be cold and supersweet! It’s also Get Gnarly Day. Be like a surfer attacking a gnarly wave, and tackle something fun and exciting. Any new challenge can be gnarly, dude!
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Today is Aunt And Uncle Day. You might be an aunt or uncle to someone older than you! An aunt or uncle is your mom or dad’s sister or brother, but the name can also be for anyone who is special to you. Send them a message about how great they are!
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Indonesian man Medi Bastoni, of East Java, wants to raise awareness of forest preservation. People will notice him, because he’s walking 500 miles to Jakarta, backwards! He hopes to meet with President Widodo, and ask for a symbolic seed to plant on Mount Wilis. The volcanic mountain’s trees are being regenerated, after deforestation and fires.
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4 little kids in Australia are in big trouble. The 10 to 14-year-olds wrote a note saying they were leaving, stole a parent’s car, packed their fishing gear, and drove 560 miles! When the police approached the car, they locked themselves in, and the officer had to use a baton to get in and arrest them.
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Have you enjoyed hearing about the Apollo mission to the Moon 50 years ago? Do you wish you had your own rocket? NASA is giving away an old Saturn 1 rocket that was never used. All you have to do is pay $250,000 to transport it. It’s 180 feet long, so you’d better have a big backyard!
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The Yoro Railway in Japan, had a fun way to raise awareness about stray cats. They created the world’s first cat cafe on a train! People got to ride with cute kittens that were up for adoption. Commuters who miss playing with the kittens, can visit them at the Kitten Cafe Sanctuary in Gifu.
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