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The Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps has been shrinking for decades; it’s lost 1148 feet of thickness since 1856. But the shrinkage is increasing so rapidly that locals have started covering the glacier with white blankets in the summer! They reflect sunlight and reduce melting by 70%! Tucked in snug as a bug in an icy rug.
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Chances are you’ve never seen a rare snow doughnut. To form, they need a thin layer of wet snow on top of ice or powder snow, and either wind that’s just strong enough to push the doughnut, or a hill for gravity to do the work. The tallest doughnut photographed was 26 inches tall!
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Brandon Stanton is a photographer who started the “Humans of New York” series. He also just raised over $1,000,000 for Rohingya refugees in only 4 days, on the fundraising site GoFundMe. The money will build thousands of bamboo houses in Bangladesh for homeless refugees fleeing Myanmar. Each 2 bedroom home will house 6 people and cost only $630!
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The Knox County Humane Society in Illinois is the comfiest animal shelter ever. They’ve had dozens of armchairs donated to them, so their dogs and cats can be comfortable while they wait to be adopted. Other animal shelters are following in their pawsteps. Be prepared to share your favorite armchair with your new pet!
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March 10th is awesome because abbreviated, Mar 10 looks like Mario! Happy Mario Day! Playing the bagpipes is even more awesome. It’s International Bagpipe Day! The most awesome thing of all is that it’s The International Day of Awesomeness! No one’s perfect, but everyone can be awesome. Perform feats of awesomeness, like breathing. That’s AWESOME!
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A new kind of solar panel will be able to provide energy even when it rains, because it will also harvest energy from raindrops! The hybrid solar cells will use a triboelectric nanogenerator, or TENG, which creates an electric charge when two materials rub together, like raindrops on a solar panel.
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If you can take the perfect selfie, you must have five-foot long arms! Anything closer, and you are distorting your face. It’s like looking in a funhouse mirror. A photo taken from 12 inches away can make your nose look 30% wider. If you want a selfie photo that really looks like you, use a timer!
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Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,900 year-old home in Italy, 40 feet underground. While expanding Rome’s subway system, multiple fountains, pools, and 14 rooms were revealed. It was a military commander’s residence built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. The house has plaster paintings on the walls, floors covered in mosaics, and even a heating system!
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Drue Chrisman is a football player at Ohio State University, but he’s set a world record in a different sport. He’s a champion bottle flipper! He flipped 63 half-filled water bottles in one minute! He shows off his mastery of bottle flip tricks on YouTube. I can flip a bottle too. It just won’t land upright!
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Did someone do something that’s bugging you? (I’m looking at all of you brothers, haha!) Just get over it! Today is National Get Over It Day, a time to focus on being happy. It’s also the National Day of Unplugging. Try to go without technology all day. Wait, stop, don’t unplug ME!
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