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Have you heard of plogging? It’s a popular new idea in Sweden that’s spreading around the world. Plogging is jogging while picking up trash. If you don’t like jogging, you can try plalking instead: walking while picking up. It exercises more muscles by adding bending, stretching, and carrying extra weight. Plus it cleans up your community!
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3 girls from Washington D C are finalists in a NASA competition. 17 year-olds Mikayla Sharrieff, Bria Snell, and India Skinner had to apply space technologies to earthly challenges. They invented a water purifier out of copper shards, filter floss, and drinking straws. It purifies water in school drinking fountains that might contain led!
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Can you balance bottles on top of each other? How about 5 of them? Rocky Byun, a South Korean balancing artist, has a YouTube channel demonstrating his talents. He balanced 5 glass bottles inside a suspended wooden frame, then gave the whole thing a spin. Rocky can also balance laptops, rocks, chairs, motorbikes, or just about anything!
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Watch where you’re walking; you might discover a 475 million year-old fossil, like Ryleigh Taylor! The 11 year-old found a trilobite fossil in Tennessee. Trilobites are arthropods related to the horseshoe crab. She and her mom, who home-schools her, contacted a paleobiologist to investigate its age. Ryleigh wants to display her fossil in a museum for all to see!
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Lucky you! It’s No Homework Day! It leaves you more time to celebrate World Laughter Day! Tell some jokes while having an extra special drink for National Beverage Day. Hot cocoa with marshmallows? Or an ice cold lemonade, for National Lemonade Day! It’s Crepe Suzette Day also, so enjoy your beverages with sweet crepes!
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NASA just launched an interplanetary rocket from California. If all goes as planned, the Mars InSight lander will arrive on Mars in less than 7 months, on November 26th. The lander’s mission is to drill down to check the planet’s soil temperature, place a seismometer to measure marsquakes, and install antennas to measure the planet’s movements.
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It’s a great time for black rhinos in Africa. The endangered rhinos have not roamed the plains in Chad for 50 years. But 6 black rhinos were relocated from the city in South Africa, to Zakouma National Park in Chad! A rhino team will keep them safe from poachers, and hopefully the rhinos will repopulate their native home.
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Aggressively Organic is a company trying to tackle the problem of world hunger. They’ve developed Plant Pods, a hydroponic micro-gardening system. You can grow more lettuce in one room than on a half-acre of land, and each head of lettuce requires only 16 ounces of water instead of 25 gallons!
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Spice up your food with smoky peppers today; it’s Totally Chipotle Day! It’s also Start Seeing Monarchs Day. Look for the orange butterflies around milkweed plants. You should also look for a comic book store, because they might give you a freebie for National Free Comic Book Day! And for train lovers, it’s National Train Day!
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Today is Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for the Fifth of May. The day commemorates a victory in 1861: when 2000 Mexican soldiers fought off 6000 French soldiers in the Battle of Puebla, during the Franco-Mexican War. Mexican-Americans started the holiday as a celebration of their Mexican heritage including music, food, and dancing.
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