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It’s finally here: Hooray For Kids Day! Baby goats are so cute! Just kidding; young humans, this day is for you! It’s also National Chocolate Chip Cookie, Sandcastle, Doll, and Mustard Day. Take your doll to the beach, to build castles and eat mustard-covered chocolate chip cookies. They’ll be delicious. Really!
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Wisconsin is famous for its cheese, and now the state also holds the world record for the largest cheeseboard. The board was 7 feet wide, 35 feet long, and covered with 4,437 pounds of cheese! A 2000 pound wheel of cheddar was the centerpiece, surrounded by 125 different varieties of cheese. I wonder how many people cut the cheese?
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Did you know there’s a program, dedicated to studying things that hit the moon? The Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System, called Midas for short, studies meteoroids that collide with the moon. They use observatories, to watch for flashes on the lunar surface. They recorded 2 impacts in less than 24 hours last month!
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7 puppies were just rescued off an uninhabited island in Manitoba Canada this week. It’s a mystery how they ended up there, but the noises from the 4-month-old pups caused a boater to investigate. Norway House Animal Rescue plans to name the 4 boys and 3 girls after the castaways on Gilligan’s Island!
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When you get a pizza delivered, some restaurants use a pizza saver to keep cheese off the lid. It looks like a little white plastic table. Now some Boston Pizzas, a restaurant in Canada, have been adding 3-D printed chairs! The Pizza Patio set is perfect for eating pizza with your pet mice!
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Walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, peanuts. Eat them all on Grab Some Nuts Day! Don’t worry about dropping shells on the floor! Then grab a giant slice of juicy watermelon and eat it. It’s National Watermelon Day! Now that your floors are a mess, you can celebrate Clean Your Floors Day properly!
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The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York, announced its newest additions. They have twin baby red pandas! 2 male cubs, Loofah and Doofah, were born June 21st. They are being bottle-fed, because the mother was having trouble taking care of them. Red pandas are endangered, and live in China and the Himalayas.
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Clark Kent Apuda doesn’t just share Superman’s name. The 10 year-old boy is also a super-swimmer! He just beat one of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s records! Clark swam the 100-meter butterfly a full second faster than the previous record, set in 1995. Clark has been swimming competitively for only 3 years. He’s just getting started!
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A surprising study shows that when you schedule fun things, they are less fun. One scenario told students to take a cookie break. The students who had to go at a specific time, reported less enjoyment than those who could go during a two-hour period. Try rough scheduling, like meeting Saturday afternoon instead of 2:30.
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Now that July is over, it’s been officially declared the hottest month in history, in the hottest place on Earth. Death Valley California, had 21 days in July where the temperature was at least 120 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 49 degrees Celsius. Last week, temperatures reached 127 degrees! The weather station is at Furnace Creek, 190 feet below sea level.
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