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Today is National Apple Dumpling Day! Peeled and cored apples filled with butter, cinnamon and sugar, are wrapped in dough. After they bake in the oven, they’re like balls of delicious apple pie! It’s also Locate An Old Friend Day. The internet makes it easy to find your old friends, and keep in touch.
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Stuart and Ian Paton of the UK, love pumpkins. They grew a pumpkin last year, that weighed 2269 pounds, and they’re hoping to grow even bigger ones this year. They spend 4 hours, and 100 gallons of water a day, caring for their pumpkins. The biggest one is already over 19 feet around, and gains 60 pounds per day!
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Brian Kahrs looks cooler than your average businessman. He took a hoverboard, and made a briefcase-shaped outer shell for it. He put on his suit to give it a test run on camera, and it makes going to work look fun! Watch Brian glide on his briefcase transport, drinking coffee, on Storyful.
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2 huge Disney/Pixar fans are making a real life version of the movie, “Toy Story 3.” Brothers Morgan and Mason McGrew are recreating the film shot-for-shot, using real people and toys. They have been working on it for years, but plan to finish it in 2019. The “Toy Story 3 In Real Life” trailer looks amazing!
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If you want to save water, you can do more than turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth. You can lower your water footprint by 55%, by becoming vegetarian! A water footprint is the amount of water used to make the things you use. Reducing meat in your diet makes a big difference!
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Today is National Play-Doh Day! The squishy dough started out as a wallpaper cleaner, but Joe McVicker made a colorful version for kids in 1956. It’s Guacamole Day also. Smash up an avocado with some salt for the easiest guacamole ever! Then go outside and find some cool rocks. It’s Collect Rocks Day!
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If you know someone that has kidney stones, they might want to try riding a roller coaster. Small deposits can form in the kidneys and have to be peed out, but can get stuck. Certain roller coasters can help the stones pass! The coaster should be rough and twisting, but with nothing upside-down.
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It’s important to stay hydrated while running a marathon, which means a race generates a huge number of plastic water bottles. At the Harrow half-marathon in London, runners will be given edible water pods instead. The blobs of water are held in a membrane derived from algae, so you can eat the container!
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A new device called the Molar Mic, is a microphone and speaker that fits onto the back teeth. It was developed for the military. The ultimate in hands-free technology, it picks up speech, and transmits sound through the teeth and skull, directly to the inner ear. Walkie-talkies can’t compete with Molar Mics!
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Archaeologists in Israel, think they’ve uncovered the world’s oldest brewery. They found plant particles used in transforming wheat and barley, into beer. The 13,700 year-old evidence was found in a cave, that was used as a graveyard by the ancient Natufian people. Drinking beer may have been part of the burial ritual.
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