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Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, is the first U.S. National Park to offer the use of heavy-duty wheelchairs. The track chair is a wheelchair with treads, that can operate on the steep sandy trails. Visitors with disabilities can reserve the chair in advance. Hopefully, more parks will also get track chairs!
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Last September, drones flew around Myanmar, firing seed missiles into the ground. Those seeds have sprouted into thousands of mangrove trees, already 20 inches high! 2 operators can pilot a fleet of drones, that plant 400,000 trees a day. Since the barren spots of Myanmar could hold 1,000,000,000 trees, re-foresting the country using drones will really save time!
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Today is Peanut Butter And Chocolate Day, Vanilla Ice Cream Day, and Sprinkle Day, so those can be your ingredients for the perfect dessert! Make an extra ice cream concoction, covered in colorful sprinkles, and give it away for Gorgeous Grandma Day! Grandmas everywhere will approve, and they’ll love that you made it yourself!
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Something’s in the water in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and it’s alligators! Actually, the 2-foot-long alligator was in the parking lot of a grocery store, 1000 miles north of its native habitat. It’s the 4th gator to be found in Allegheny County since May. They might have to change the name to Alligator County!
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California condors used to be on the verge of extinction. Conservation efforts to save North America’s largest bird, included rounding up the last 24 birds, and breeding them in captivity. Over 300 condors now live in the wild, and the 1000th chick just hatched! It will grow up to have a 10-foot wingspan.
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Fingernails are great for scratching an itch or picking up a penny. They can also be tiny works of art! Nail artist Peter Liam, has created fake nails that look like tiny lava lamps! You can make your own version of a lava lamp with oil, colored water, and an Alka Seltzer tablet!
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Have you ever heard of a pocket shark? The American Pocket Shark is only 5 1/2 inches long, and it glows in the dark! The shark has pocket glands near its front fins, that secrete a glowing fluid. The light attracts other creatures, which the shark attacks and eats for dinner. Stay away from the light!
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Is it going to be another hot day where you live? Forget about exerting yourself, and just spend the day relaxing in a hammock. It’s Hammock Day, as well as Mango Day. Slice up a sweet chilled mango, to eat while you’re hanging around. Make sure everyone gets a turn, to enjoy Hammock Day!
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The National Weather Service in Nebraska, had a fun way to demonstrate how hot it gets inside a car, during a heat wave. They baked biscuits! They put a pan of biscuits in a car window, and let the sun get to work. It was soon 185° Fahrenheit, but it took 8 hours to bake them.
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Some students in California, may start the new school year riding to school, on clean electric buses! The California Energy Commission approved funding, to replace 200 diesel school buses around the state. They will not only make the roads a little less polluted, but let kids breathe cleaner air while they go to school!
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