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While you’re on your summer break, I bet you’re enjoying sleeping in. Human adults need 8 hours of sleep while babies need 16. Bats sleep about 20 hours, and giraffes take brief naps that add up to two hours a day. Dolphins can sleep with half of their brain and just keep swimming!
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The Erie Seawolves baseball team unveiled a treat last week, that is the stuff of nightmares. In honor of their Sugar Rush Night, they sold hot dogs wrapped in a cotton candy bun. Ketchup and mustard were replaced by candy Nerds. If this sounds good to you, I think I’ll skip dinner at your house!
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Today is International Plastic Bag Free Day! Don’t use any plastic bags when you go shopping. Get reusable bags and vow to use them from now on! Then look in the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you are. It’s Compliment Your Mirror Day, and the person in your mirror is you!
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Have you lost control of your gaming habits? Do you prioritize playing video games over other activities, even if there are negative consequences? You could have gaming disorder. Excessive gaming that becomes an addiction can cause ruined relationships, lost jobs and even rare fatalities. Take a break and go outside!
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Did your grandparents ever have a chemistry set? Those sets could be dangerous! They contained poisonous cyanide to dissolve gold, blowtorches to make glass test tubes, radioactive uranium to practice measuring radiation, and carcinogenic asbestos to dust for fingerprints. Now, some chemistry sets don’t even contain chemicals!
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Uh-oh, parents have a new argument for not getting you that new toy. Researchers found that having too many toys can stifle creativity. When kids in their study were given only a few toys, they played with them longer, created new uses for the toys and had more fun overall!
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Glaucoma is a condition that causes pressure to build up in the eye and damage the optic nerve. It can cause vision loss or even blindness. Researchers found that people who drink a daily cup of caffeinated hot tea could have a 74% less chance of developing glaucoma! Pour me a cup of tea, please!
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Holler for your interstellar friends to join you for some challah! It’s Earth Challah Day and World UFO Day! Who could say no to delicious bread? If you can’t spot a UFO today, make your own Unidentified Flying Objects. Fling some things through the air and see who can guess what it was!
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Did you know you can do CPR on your dog? Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a method of compressing the chest to restart a heartbeat. You might know CPR saves human lives, but you can take classes to save your pet’s life, too. Look for a class near you, or learn from videos online.
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Who is smarter, cats or dogs? A small study of animal brains found that dog brains have twice as many neurons as cat brains. Neurons are cells that process information. Brain size did not matter, since a big bear brain still had less neurons. But raccoons had the most neurons! They win!
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