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What are you eating for breakfast? Cover it in chocolate! Are you having a peanut butter sandwich for lunch? Dip it in chocolate! How about spaghetti for dinner, with chocolate syrup for sauce! Today is Chocolate Covered Anything Day, so it’s your chance to see if chocolate covered brussel sprouts are gross, or delicious!
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So Yummy and Good Morning America teamed up this week, to break the world record for the most cookies iced in 1 hour. More than 50 people decorated 1,696 gingerbread cookies! The cookies were donated to charities in New York, and So Yummy donated $15,000 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Now I really want a cookie!
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In China, cockroaches are helping to keep waste out of landfills. At the Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Company, a billion cockroaches are eating 50 tonnes of food waste every day! When the roaches die, they are used to feed pigs. The company hopes to open more facilities next year. I hope their cockroaches don’t escape!
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Do you have $500 and nothing to spend it on? In Los Angeles California, you could buy a brownie! Baby J’s Burgers sells a decadent brownie covered in 24-karat gold. The owner, Chef Jason Harley, also sold gold-covered donuts at his donut shop, Birdies. They were a bargain, for only $100!
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You never know what you’ll run into, when you’re driving. In New Jersey, money was flying out the back of an armored truck! In Florida, a semi truck overturned, covering the highway with shirts and shoes. And in Texas, a giant spool rolled down the road, for the 4th time in 2 months! Watch out!
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Have you ever tried to get a bunch of cats to obey you? They tend to ignore you, do what they want, and make a mess. So when someone’s having a hard time getting a group of people to do something, they say, “it’s like herding cats.” Happy Cat Herders Day!
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Kentucky Fried Chicken has a new ingredient for your fire. It’s the KFC 11 Herbs and Spices firelog! The scent of the Colonel’s secret recipe will have everyone gathered around the fireplace or campfire, hungry for dinner! At $18.99 a log, it will probably be a rare treat.
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This week in Germany, a street was paved with chocolate. A defective storage tank at the DreiMeister chocolate factory, in Westönnen, poured chocolate out into the road. The milk chocolate quickly hardened in the cold air, and firefighters had to pry it up with shovels. I wonder how much chocolate they ate!
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Scientists have discovered a new ecosystem at the bottom of the ocean. Deep in the Pescadero Basin, cracks called hydrothermal vents, let out heat from volcanoes. The area, called Jaich Maa, has mounds of calcite pouring hot liquid into an upside-down pool. It’s home to new species that scientists have never seen before!
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, is in orbit around the Sun. It completed its first solar flyby last month, and sent back its first photo! The picture shows a helmet streamer, which is a loop of gases and plasma, taken from only 16.9 million miles away. Earth is 93,000,000 miles away. Imagine how hot that probe is!
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