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This is the beginning of Walk Your Dog Week. Even if your dog has a yard to run around in, they love to go for a walk to smell new smells and see new things. It’s also World Vegetarian Day. Try not to eat meat today. Maybe you’ll make it permanent!
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An 8 year-old girl in Pennsylvania became a certified barber! Neijae Graham-Henries started going to the Junior Barber Academy when she was only 7. She didn’t mind being both the only girl, and the youngest student. Now she gives free haircuts to kids in Philadelphia. That’s one sharp kid!
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Do you think there’s life on other planets? NASA has announced a new plan to search for alien life. The space agency will begin looking for technosignatures, which is basically evidence of technology. They’ll use new telescopes to search exoplanets, for signs of laser emissions, polluted atmospheres, megastructures, and even satellites!
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The largest bird that ever lived, has just been identified. A type of elephant bird, called Vorombe titan, was nearly 10 feet tall and weighed about 1900 pounds! They lived on Madagascar, but probably went extinct when prehistoric humans settled there, 1000 years ago. The flightless birds shared the island with giant lemurs and hippopotamuses.
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Mountain goats are being removed from Olympic National Park in Washington. The goats have become more aggressive, because they are addicted to human urine. People pee around the park, especially at campsites, and goats are attracted to the salt and minerals. The goats will be airlifted to forests in the Cascade mountains.
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Get your jaws ready; it’s National Chewing Gum Day! People have been chewing gum for more than 5000 years. They started by chewing blobs of wax, tree sap, or bark tar. It didn’t taste good, and they couldn’t blow bubbles with it, but it satisfied the need to gnaw on something!
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If you find yourself near Chesterfield Missouri this weekend, you should check out the world’s largest bounce house. The Big Bounce America Tour is making a stop with their giant inflatable structure. It has a castle, obstacle course, basketball courts, and a giant slide into a ball pit. There’s even a DJ playing music!
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A party in Los Angeles just isn’t a party, unless the Party Goats are there. Goat mom Scout Raskin, will bring her Nigerian Dwarf goats to your party for $99 an hour. Spanky and Pippin get dressed in purple velvet and lace jackets, and like to jump on guests’ backs, or just chill.
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This December, the Footgolf World Cup will be held in Morocco. Footgolf is like golf, but your foot is the golf club, you use a soccer ball, and the holes are really big. This will be the third Footgolf World Cup, but the first one with categories for women and seniors.
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Robots are getting smarter and more diverse. They are exploring Mars, and working in factories. Robots are being developed that will dance, perform surgery, or produce artwork. However, cleaning up the house would be one of the most difficult things to teach a robot to do! Guess you’ll always have to clean your room!
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