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Today is National Mutt Day. Mixed-breed dogs are available for adoption in shelters everywhere, and they are awesome! When you adopt a mutt puppy, you never know how big they’ll grow; you get to be surprised! It’s also Fritters Day. Bits of dough stuffed with fruit, vegetables, or other fillings, are deep-fried and delicious!
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The Teddy Bear Toss is an event at ice hockey games, where fans throw teddy bears on the ice when the home team scores its first goal. The toys are then given to charities. The Hershey Bears will try to break the world record for most teddy bears this Sunday, which is currently 28,815 bears!
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Scientists have been studying humor, and what makes certain words funny. After finding categories that people found funny, like bodily functions and animals, they created a computer model to rate 45,000 words. Some of the funniest words in the English language are upchuck, bubby, jiggly, guffaw, puffball, and yaps. What words make you giggle?
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A man in the UK was stunned to find out, his toothbrush holder was 4000 years old! He’d purchased the piece of pottery for $5 at a car boot sale, which is like a flea market, and has been storing his toobrush in it for 5 years. He recently discovered it’s an Afghan relic from 1900 BC!
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The city of Stockholm Sweden, is making a change this winter. Instead of having advertisements on billboards and bus stops, they will have directions to homeless shelters. The digital screens will automatically broadcast the emergency notices, any time the temperatures drop to dangerous levels. It’s a great idea that may save someone’s life!
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Today is Eat A Red Apple Day! Buy a whole bag and make an apple pie, since it’s also National Pie Day! Pie rhymes with tie, and guess what! It’s the beginning of Tie Month. You can wear bow ties, string ties, fat ties, skinny ties, bolo ties, or light-up ties, all month long!
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Rakhim Kurayev has done it again. The 5 year-old Schwarzenegger broke 6 world records by doing 3202 push-ups in a row! His previous record of 4105, could not be counted because of problems with the video recording. Rakhim was rewarded with a Mercedes, as well as toy cars to play with, until he’s old enough to drive it!
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Lucio Ballesteros, an 87 year-old writer from Spain, has constructed a 2,600 pound spacecraft. The ship is 60 feet long, and made of aluminum and methacrylate. Once he installs motors, he hopes it will someday travel to planet 10/7. Ballesteros has written about the fictional planet, inhabited by beings similar to us, in his novels.
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A UK restaurant named “Frankie and Benny’s” is taking action, after a study showed 70% of kids say, they think their parents enjoy screen time more than hanging out with them. Until December 7th, families who leave their phones in a “no phone zone” box on the table, get free meals for their kids!
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People do some weird things in the name of science. 6 pediatricians did an experiment to see what effect eating a Lego had on their body. They swallowed a yellow Lego head, then examined their poop to determine the Find and Retrieve Time, or FART score. It averaged less than 2 days, with no ill effects.
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