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2 Sri Lankan leopard cubs, born 2 months ago at Burgers Zoo in the Netherlands, had their first veterinary check-up last week. Now that they finally know the cubs are a boy and a girl, they can give them names! Sri Lankan Leopards are endangered, with only about 1000 left in the wild.
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Pennsylvania teen Theo Mihellis started playing pool less than a year ago, but he’s already set a new world record! The 14 year-old master of trick shots, landed the highest jump pot on a pool table going in the corner pocket. The ball had to jump over a bar 16 inches high!
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Over 200 years ago, the tires on your automobile might have had wooden spokes. The Michelin tire company is going to start using wood for tires again! In an effort to make one set of tires last a lifetime, Michelin plans to replace oil-based ingredients with wood chips. Wood tires should be available by 2020!
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This Friday, most of the world will have a wonderful opportunity to see a total lunar eclipse. When the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the planet, Earth’s shadow falls on the moon, making it appear blood red. Sorry, North America; it won’t be visible there. Everyone else, check your local eclipse time.
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Do you have ice cream, hot fudge sauce, whipped cream, and maraschino cherries? Today is Hot Fudge Sundae Day, and that’s what you’ll need to make one for me! It’s also National Merry-Go-Round Day. Pick your favorite horse on a carousel, or spin around on the playground version until you get dizzy!
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Decades after Dr. Seuss wrote “The Lorax,” 4 professors think they’ve discovered the real Lorax. Primates living in Kenya called patas monkeys, have distinctive facial features like the Lorax’s mustache. Their voices sound like a “sawdusty sneeze,” and they live on a diet of Truffala-looking whistling thorn acacia trees. Luckily, patas monkeys are not endangered.
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49 years ago, the Apollo mission that first landed men on the moon, returned with 842 pounds of rock samples. Only about 16% have been studied so far. The samples are used sparingly, so that future scientists will continue to have the opportunity to work with them, constantly revealing more with new technology.
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150 years ago, in 1868, Lord Tweedmouth bred the first litter of golden retriever puppies. The Golden Retriever Club of Scotland organized a birthday celebration in honor of the anniversary, and 361 happy dogs showed up! They gathered with their humans at Guisachan Estate, in Tomich Scotland, to play together and wait for humans to drop food.
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If you live along the Canada-United States border, you might get a glimpse of the Northern Lights Tuesday night. The aurora borealis are beautiful colored lights in the sky. They occur when electrically charged solar particles hit Earth’s atmosphere. The energy from the collisions is released as light! Enjoy the show!
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Knock knock. Who’s there? Boo. Boo who? Aw, don’t cry! It’s just Tell An Old Joke Day! Ask grown-ups to tell you their favorite old jokes, so they get passed on to the next generation. It’s also Drive-Thru Day. Be lazy and order dinner from the car! And tell the cashier an old joke!
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