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Today is Monkey Day! It started as a joke when a college student wrote “Monkey Day” on his friend’s calendar, but it’s now celebrated around the world. The smallest monkeys are Pygmy marmosets, at only 4.6 inches long! Act like a monkey today; jump around and eat a banana!
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NASA’s InSight lander, which landed on Mars last month, just took its first selfie yesterday! The photo is a composite, made of 11 different photos stitched together. It shows the solar panels, weather sensor, and the deck full of scientific instruments. It’s a lovely photo, but InSight forgot to smile!
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Scientists have discovered the fastest animal movement in the world, but you’ll have to look closely. The tiny Dracula ant can snap its jaws shut 5000 times faster than the blink of an eye! Their mandibles go from 0 to 198 miles-per-hour in .000015 seconds. Awesome! Also, they like to suck blood from their own larvae. Yuck!
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The Norwegian government has agreed to ban their biofuel industry from buying palm oil, starting in 2020. The palm oil industry is a major cause of deforestation, which destroys the rainforest habitat of orangutans and other endangered species. Norway is the first country ban palm oil biofuel, but the European Union will follow in 2030.
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Have you ever seen a pizza with eyeshadow on it? The Glamlite Pizza Palette is a pizza-shaped makeup kit, but the pepperonis are different colored powders, named after pizza toppings! You can have hot sauce and red onion eyes, or use black olive, green pepper, and mushroom for a camouflage look!
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Today is Violin Day, the first instrument that many kids learn to play. If your school has a strings program, be sure to sign up! You can always listen to classical, bluegrass, or Irish music to hear some fantastic violin playing! Listen with a cup of hot chocolate, because it’s also National Cocoa Day!
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In Connecticut, someone has cut the cheese in a big way. Stew Leonard’s dairy store has the world’s biggest cheese sculpture, carved by Sara “The Cheese Lady” Kauffman. A 3,462 pound “Customer Service Rock of Commitment”, was sculpted from a humongous block of cheddar cheese! Now you can buy a slice of history!
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in Florida, a dog might have gotten the blame for eating all the dog food, if it weren’t for security cameras! Video footage shows a bear reaching in through the screened window on the back porch, pulling out the entire bag of dog food, and stealing away into the night!
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The JetBlue airline is holding a holiday contest, where the prize is you! The winners will be flown to the cities of their friends or families on Christmas Eve, then gift-wrapped and delivered! The Go Get Gifted contest ends December 12th on JetBlue.com, where you can pick your gift-wrap options!
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A new dinosaur has been discovered in New South Wales Australia, in the Lightning Ridge opal fields. Named the Weewarrasaurus, it was a small herbivore that moved on 2 legs, during the Cretaceous Period 100,000,000 years ago. The fossilized ornithopod jawbone had turned to opal, and is now a beautiful, shimmering green and blue!
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