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If you see some of your favorite bearded people looking less hairy today, it might be because it’s No Beard Day. Imagine Gandalf, Hagrid, or Santa Claus without beards! At least they wouldn’t get chocolatey beards, for National Chocolate Cupcake Day! Do you bite into a cupcake, or lick the frosting off first?
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A new pop-up book imagines life in the year 4847. “Beyond the Sixth Extinction: A Post-Apocalyptic Pop-Up,” by Shawn Sheehy and Jordi Solano, is full of creatures like puppy-sized cockroaches, plastic-eating peteybugs, methane-breathing clam fungi, and nuclear reaction chamber-dwelling rotraps. The creatures of Earth adapt and survive in this fictional future, showing nature is unstoppable!
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A new lightweight glove can give users the feeling that they’re touching virtual reality objects. The glove, called DextrES, works by using electrostatic attraction between thin, elastic metal strips, and will soon be powered by a small battery. Eventually, a whole-body suit could be developed. Virtual reality will feel more real than ever!
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Denmark wants to include more than just nutritional information on their food labels. Their goal is to give every product a grade based on environmental impact. The grade will factor in transportation, pesticides, packaging, and greenhouse emissions that were created to get the food to the shelf. It will encourage companies to go green!
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The hagfish is amazingly disgusting. Sometimes called the slime eel, the hagfish has no skull or jaws. It escapes predators by releasing up to 5 gallons of slime, clogging the attacker’s gills with mucous. It eats dead animals by crawling in through their mouth and eating the carcass from the inside out. Happy Hagfish Day!
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Today is Wear Something Gaudy Day, so get out your brightest, showy clothes! A neon shirt with sparkly pants and polka dot socks would be perfect! Then go out for lunch with your parents, for Take Your Parents To Lunch Day. You’re already dressed up for your lunch date!
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The St. Croix Growers’ Association measured their top 10 pumpkins last weekend, and came out with a world record. The average weight was 1,912 pounds! The Stillwater Ohio group’s largest pumpkin tipped the scales at 2,091 pounds. You wouldn’t be exaggerating if you said that pumpkin weighed a ton! You’d have to carve it with a chainsaw.
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New Zealand has named its “Bird of the Year,” and it’s a drunk pigeon. The kereru, also called kuku or kukupa, is 20 inches long, and makes impressive dives through the air with a distinctive whooshing sound. Wood pigeons eat rotting, fermented fruit that leaves them so intoxicated, they fall out of trees!
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New employees were testing out the online newsletter system at the U.S. embassy in Australia, when they sent out a meeting invitation by mistake. The e-mail was a photo of a cat wearing Cookie Monster pajamas, and holding a plate of cookies. That would have been the best meeting ever!
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Chow Yun-Fat is a movie star from Hong Kong. He’s earned millions throughout his career as an actor, but he leads a simple life, preferring to buy his clothes from thrift stores, and using public transportation. He and his wife just want a happy, normal life, so they’ll donate their extra $714,000,000 to charity!
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