Sundaes and Carousels

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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Will the Real Lorax Please Stand Up

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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Conserving Lunar Specimens

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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Golden Retrievers Everywhere!

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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How Much Glue Would That Take?

The world’s largest supported papier-mache sculpture is an elephant, but 3 times bigger! A wildlife conservation group commissioned the sculpture, by U Myint and Arkar Kyaw, to draw attention to Myanmar’s shrinking elephant population. The black elephant sculpture is 21 feet tall and 7 feet wide. That must have been messy to build!

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Now I Feel Insignificant

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, orbiting our Sun on one of its spiral arms. Galaxies can be seen in groups or clusters. And those clusters can gather into superclusters, millions of light years wide. Astronomers have discovered a supercluster 4 billion light years away. The Saraswati supercluster’s mass is like 20 million billion suns!

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Pug Gone Bad

Police in Cape May, New Jersey caught a trespasser sneaking through yards, and took him down to the station. But instead of getting his mugshot, they took a pugshot! The suspect was a runaway dog, and they circulated the pugshot on social media. The pug’s owner spotted him, and bailed Bean out with cookies.

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