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It’s one thing to roll up a mile long ball of string. But it’s a little harder to create a mile long braid! The Somerset County 4-H Club in New Jersey braided strips of old bed sheets together to create the world’s longest 3-strand textile braid. Then they rolled it into a giant ball! Now where’s a giant cat?
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Starting in 2020, all new homes in California will be built with solar panels on the roof, to harness energy from the sun. The California Energy Commission hopes that as solar panels become more popular, they will also get cheaper. Solar energy is clean and efficient, and doesn’t pollute the Earth’s atmosphere!
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A bird in Japan surprised observers at a Tokyo train station. The crow was hopping around a ticket machine after watching people buy tickets with credit cards. Then he hopped to the next machine, grabbed a woman’s credit card as it popped out, and took it back to his own ticket machine! That’s one smart crow!
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Marcio Mizael Matolias is King of his castle: a giant sand castle! The Brazilian man built an elaborate sand castle 22 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, with a room 10 square feet inside. He started spending so much time there, that he moved in permanently! He keeps it wet, and can rebuild for free if it gets destroyed!
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Do you still have your lost socks gathered, from Lost Sock Memorial Day yesterday? Because today is National Clean Up Your Room Day! I just know you’re going to find some socks to match! Maybe you’ll come across toys you forgot about, or a missing Lego piece, or an overdue library book. Treasures await!
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A 4 year-old boy from Alabama is the best kind of superhero. Austin Perine uses his allowance each week to buy a bag of sandwiches and sodas to give to the homeless. That’s what he thinks a president should do, so he calls himself President Austin. He wears a cape and his motto is, “Don’t forget to show love.”
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Maybe you’ve taught your dog a few tricks. Ready to train spiders? Scientists have trained a regal jumping spider named Kim to jump on command! Kim can jump 6 times her body length. That’s like a human jumping over 40 feet! They are studying her leg movements in order to build robots that can jump.
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The kangaroo rat was listed as endangered in Mexico, 24 years ago. No one had spotted one hopping around its desert habitat since 1986. After 30 years with no sightings, scientists thought the kangaroo rat was extinct. But researchers doing a study on other small mammals discovered 4 of them! I guess they were just really good at hiding!
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Making your own breakfast is so boring. What if you had a Lego robot to do it for you? The Brick Wall Team built a Breakfast Machine out of Lego that cooks bacon and eggs and serves it, and even salts and peppers it! The hardest part was making it crack eggs without dropping the shells.
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It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day! Gather all your socks without mates. Some might make good sock puppets, or maybe you like wearing mismatched socks! But today is the day for paying your respects to those lost socks. Tomorrow’s holiday may help you find them! Finish your memorial with a butterscotch brownie, for Butterscotch Brownie Day!
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