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Crunch-crunch-crunch. Today is National Tortilla Chip Day! In Los Angeles in the 1940’s, Rebecca Webb Carranza noticed all the misshapen tortillas that were rejected at the El Zarape Tortilla Factory. She cut them into triangles and fried them, then sold them for 10 cents a bag. Corn + oil + water + salt = delicious!
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Do rotating figure skaters make your head spin? Wait ’til you see the flattie spider in action! When it goes after prey, the arachnid anchors one leg to the ground, then spins around until it catches its meal. They can spin around in one-eighth of a second, faster than an Olympic skater!
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to set a Guinness World Record? A record must be measurable, breakable, capable of standardization, verifiable, based on one superlative and measured in one unit of measurement, and achieve best-in-the-world standing. Got it? Maybe I will try to set a world record saying “i” the longest. i-i-i-i-i-i-i forget it.
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West Virginia teachers are teaching students an important lesson in peaceful protests and standing up for your rights. All public schools in the state of West Virginia are closed while teachers demand more pay and better health insurance. They have the support of students and parents, because teachers are AWESOME! Thank a teacher today!
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Much of Siberia is covered in permafrost, where the ground temperature stays below freezing all the time. But large portions are starting to thaw out, causing the ground to slump and create holes. One giant crater nicknamed the “Doorway to the Underworld” is uncovering 200,000 year-old climate data, ancient pollen, and prehistoric animals.
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I’m going to try to celebrate National Toast, Banana Bread, Dog Biscuit, Tile, Play Tennis, Curling Is Cool, and Skip The Straw Days all at once! I’ll tile my table with dog biscuits, toast, and banana bread, watch some Olympic curling, then drink water without a straw after playing tennis. I’ll be exhausted!
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Steve Guman wants his record back. The New York man creates sculptures out of popsicle sticks, and once held the world record with his 390,000 stick medieval castle. His record was toppled by students in Thailand who created a map using 840,000 sticks. He’s working on a 900,000 stick Roman Colosseum to reclaim his record!
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The Boring Company, another of Elon Musk’s projects, is planning to dig a tunnel from Washington DC to New York. A track called the Hyperloop will make the trip in 30 minutes, with stops in Baltimore and Philadelphia along the way! A Hyperloop test track is under construction in the desert near Las Vegas.
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Cambridge University researchers developed an online game designed to help spot fake news called “Bad News.” It rewards you for tasks like impersonating someone, creating an attack meme, and starting a national scandal. They hope that by exposing people to how fake news is created, it will help them identify it in real life.
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Victor Buso of Argentina was an amateur astronomer just testing out a new camera. He was taking pictures of a spiral galaxy, when he noticed a point on one spiral arm getting brighter. He was capturing the first photo ever of an exploding star! He’s given astronomers the data they’ve been chasing for years!
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