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What if, when you stepped in gum, it only made your shoe better? A company in the Netherlands is actually making shoes out of old chewing gum! Explicit Wear is recycling gum from the streets of Amsterdam. They convert it into a new kind of rubber to make the soles of their Gumshoes. Amazing!
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The Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, in Colombia, has a clever canine campus resident. Negro the dog watched students pay for cookies with money at the campus shop. One day, he showed up at the shop with a green leaf, to pay for a cookie of his own! Now he buys a cookie every day with a leaf!
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It’s National Great Poetry Reading Day. You know who writes not-so-great poetry? Artificial Intelligence. Here’s an example: “I am a coal-truck, by a broken heart, I have no sound, the sound of my heart, I am not”. AI poetry might not be incredible, but it’s just as good as some poetry humans write!
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If you’ve never watched a superb bird-of-paradise dance, you’re in luck. Ornithologists have discovered the species is actually 2 different species! Both have black light-absorbing feathers, with a blue smiley-face pattern. Now you can compare videos of the greater and Voglekop superb birds-of-paradise, and see who’s a better dancer!
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Today is Go Birding Day, a day to watch and listen for birds. Exercise your senses of sight and hearing. It’s also National Sense Of Smell Day, so you should smell the flowers while you’re out birdwatching! Don’t forget your sense of taste; it’s Blueberry Pie Day! Now combine all your super-senses for National Superhero Day!
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Researchers have found that horses not only read your emotions, but they remember them later. They showed photos of people with happy or angry faces to horses. Later, when the person met the horse with a neutral expression on their face, the horse reacted according to the earlier photograph. Once a horse sees you mad, he doesn’t forget!
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Astronauts on the International Space Station have a special assignment: reading to kids, from space! Story Time from Space is a program where carefully chosen books rocket up to the Space Station. Then an astronaut reads the book to kids back on Earth! You can watch on the Story Time from Space website.
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Have you ever wondered what garlic bread would taste like on the edge of space? YouTubers Tom Scott, Steve Randall and Barry Lewis sent a loaf of garlic bread up 22 miles, attached to a weather balloon. When it came back down, they ate it. The stratospheric bread was a little frozen in the middle, but still delicious!
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A few days ago, I told you about eaglecam.org, where you can watch a nest with two bald eagle babies. They are getting so big! But there’s another bald eagle nest to watch, in Washington D.C.’s Arboretum. Mr. President and The First Lady are taking turns sitting on 2 eggs! Check out DCeaglecam.org.
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Plant a tree for Arbor Day! It’s World Tapir Day, so research the mammal that’s like a pig and elephant mix. For National Tell A Story Day, have a family story hour. Learn to tap out S-O-S for Morse Code Day, and eat a yummy cake sandwich for Devil Dog Day. That’s a lot to do; get busy!
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