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Were you one of the 1.9 billion people around the world who watched the royal wedding? British Prince Harry married American Meghan Markle yesterday at Windsor Castle in London. Their new titles are the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. After months of excitement and preparation, everyone was happy watching the beautiful couple get married!
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The largest pillow fight ever, took place in Minnesota on Friday. Mike Lindell, the inventor of MyPillow, supplied over 66,000 pillows to participants. The Minnesota Vikings football stadium was filled with people battering each other with pillows for 2 straight minutes. Everyone got to take their new, slightly demolished, pillows home with them!
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Have you been saving your money? It’s almost time for the dinosaur auction! A 70% complete skeleton that resembles an Allosaurus will be sold in Paris, in the Eiffel Tower. The fossil is expected to sell for 1 to 2 million dollars with an added bonus: you might get to name the new species!
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Everyone knows blood is red, right? Not if you’re a New Guinea skink! The lizards have bright green blood! Their blood contains high levels of biliverdin, a highly toxic bile pigment. The substance may help protect the skinks from blood parasites that carry malaria. Unfortunately, it doesn’t bother the birds and snakes that eat skinks!
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Today is National Rescue Dog Day. Rescue dogs of all shapes and sizes are just waiting to be adopted at animal shelters. After you adopt a best friend, you can all go play at the park. It’s also National Take Your Parents To The Playground Day! Make sure your parents go down the slide!
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High school senior Cynthia Pettaway was hospitalized last week, and was devastated that she would miss her high school graduation. But she got to cross the stage after all! A two way video on an ipad screen, let her remotely control a robot to accept her diploma. It even wore a cap and gown!
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The world’s longest inflatable obstacle course looks like fun! It’s 1,625 feet of climbing, ducking, squeezing and jumping on a bed of air. It was created by Hold My Shoes and V-Formation, and will be in the UK next weekend. Be on the lookout for the Beast; it will be touring the world later this year!
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Scientists have figured out how to heat water faster. By using a laser pulse made of x-rays, they heated water to 100,000 degrees Celsius, in 75 femtoseconds (which is a millionth of a billionth second). Heating water molecules usually makes them shake stronger and stronger. An x-ray laser punches the electrons right off the molecule!
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Don’t get annoyed that you have to make your bed every morning. Chimpanzees have to make their bed every night, literally! They weave a new bed each evening out of sticks and leaves, 30 feet up in a tree. Researchers found that chimp beds have very few parasites or microbes, unlike human beds. Ours are full of microbes!
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Get out your violins, because it’s World Fiddle Day! When you’re playing Irish, folk, or bluegrass music on your violin, it’s more commonly called a fiddle. It’s also Plant a Lemon Tree Day! If you play your fiddle under a lemon tree, you can blame any sour notes on the lemons!
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