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To celebrate the Spring Festival, Nauryz, today in Almaty Kazakhstan, quilters are beginning what they hope will become the world’s largest patchwork quilt. The 25,500 square meter quilt will represent the diverse nature and people of Kazakhstan. The city is also serving a big cup of tea to 20,000 people. The cup holds 2000 liters!
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A strange creature that washed ashore on a Georgia beach has mystified scientists. It resembles the fabled Altamaha-ha, a Loch Ness Monster-like animal said to live in a Georgia river. It might be an unidentified species from an unexplored part of the ocean, or maybe a decaying decapitated shark. It’s still a mystery!
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Cities are full of pollution and don’t have many trees, but Green City Solutions created a bench that can absorb as much pollution as 275 trees! CityTree benches hold 1682 pots of moss, have their own watering and solar monitoring systems, and even have WiFi. So far, They are in London, Berlin, Paris, Oslo and Amsterdam.
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Derek Klingenberg is a celebrity farmer YouTuber. Millions of people have watched him serenade his cows with his trombone or sing a farm version of “What Does the Fox Say?”. He also makes cow space art! Derek herded his cows into position, spelling out a giant “Hi!” which was photographed by satellite imagery!
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Today we celebrate National West Virginia Day. When Virginia seceded from the Union during the time of the Civil War, the western part refused to join the Confederates and formed the 35th state of West Virginia instead. Okay, you learned something. Now you’re excused to enjoy National Goof Off Day! Have fun!
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Centenarians, or people who are at least 100 years old, have been breaking world records right and left! 102 year-old Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins and 100 year-old Orville Rogers both set speed records for their age group in the 60 meter dash over the weekend. Roy Englert, a relative youngster at age 93, also set a world record in the 3000 meter race.
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The ocean’s twilight zone has low light. The deep-reef areas just beneath highly studied waters are so full of previously unknown species of fish that researchers have renamed ocean zone levels. The sunlight, twilight and midnight zones are now split into altiphotic, mesophotic, rariphotic and deep aphotic zones. The ocean is still vastly unexplored!
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If you’ve ever looked up your house on Google maps, you know it can be fun to explore the streets using Street View. The city of Odate in Japan sent Akita dogs Ako, Asuka and Puuko to roam the streets with cameras. Now you can see the city of Odate using Google Pup View!
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Fiona Presly of Inverness Scotland has a tiny fuzzy pet. It’s a bumblebee! She noticed a bee with no wings in her garden last spring. The bee crawled onto her hand happily, and Fiona adopted her knowing she wouldn’t survive the winter on her own. Fiona and Bee’s friendship is a mystery to scientists!
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Do you say thank you? And hold the door open for someone behind you? Do you RSVP to party invitations? (That means Respondez S’il Vous Plait, french for Please Respond.) These good manners are called common courtesies, and it’s National Common Courtesy Day. Thank you for the baguette, to also celebrate National French Bread Day!
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