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Today is Restaurant Day around the world. Anyone can open a pop-up restaurant or food stall. You could make a restaurant for your family today! Create a menu with some meals to choose from, then let them order, or serve them today’s special. Don’t forget a fun name for your restaurant!
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California’s Sally Dawley is proud to be known as the “Butt Lady of Auburn.” For the last 3 1/2 years, she’s been counting how many cigarette butts she picks up. She reached 1,000,000 on Valentine’s Day. She wishes people would quit smoking, or at least dispose of the butts properly instead of littering. So do I!
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Tuxedo the cat looks out for his pals. When his dog buddies got in trouble for misbehaving, they were locked in their carrier. Tuxedo came to the rescue, pulling the whole door off so the two dogs could escape. No human is going to lock up his four-legged friends!
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If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you might wonder how the figure skaters can do those amazing spins without getting dizzy. When you spin around in circles, the fluids in your inner ear move, even after you stop. Skaters have to train their brains to ignore the fluid that is still moving.
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700,000 year-old footprints in Ethiopia are giving researchers an idea of what childhood was like in the past. Children as young as 2 left footprints around a site where a hippo had been hunted and prepared for eating. Parents brought children along when they hunted and let them create stone tools. They didn’t get babysitters!
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Today is National Cabbage Day, a great day to make delicious cabbage soup! Then you could share it with someone, because it’s also Random Acts of Kindness Day. It’s celebrated on various dates around the world, but doing kind things for people is something we should practice every day. Everyone, just be nice!
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Unicode has unveiled 157 new emojis, including many science-related ones like a test tube and a petri dish. But scientists are pointing out a flaw in the DNA emoji. It spirals the wrong direction! Apple, Samsung, and other companies put their own twist on emojis, so I hope they twist their version the right way!
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The Westminster Kennel Club had its first dog show in New York City in 1877. The Westminster Dog Show just awarded the 142nd title of Best In Show to a fluffy white Bichon Frise named Flynn. He beat out nearly 3000 dogs for the prestigious award, but all he really wants is a good belly rub!
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Australian scientists have created a water filter that can make dirty seawater drinkable after just one pass! The filter is made with Graphair, a type of graphene made from soybean oil. More than 2 billion people live without clean drinking water. The inexpensive filter could help provide safe, clean water for them!
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In honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, students at Lincoln Elementary School in Louisville Kentucky set a new world record. 556 people donned stovepipe hats and black paper beards to become the largest group to dress as Abe Lincoln. What a nice 209th birthday present for Honest Abe!
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