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Today is National Umbrella Day and National Cream Cheese Brownie Day. I wish it would rain delicious cream cheese brownies so I could use my bumbershoot, another name for umbrellas in the 19th century. James Smith and Sons is a London umbrella shop open since 1830. Umbrellas were invented more than 4000 years ago!
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The Hyundai Pavilion at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea is the blackest building ever. It is coated with Vantablack, a pigment that absorbs 99.96% of all visible light. Architect Asif Khan designed it to feel like you’re looking into deep space. Inside, it’s glossy white with an interactive water installation.
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Humans can perceive three dimensions because each eye sees a slightly different view and our brains combine them. Praying mantises are the only invertebrates that can see in 3D, also called stereopsis. Researchers gave them teeny tiny 3D glasses and showed them 3D movies to study their depth perception!
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The Museum of London has a FAT-scinating new item on display. You can see pieces of London’s famous fatberg, a rock-hard mass of toilet waste as big as two football fields that had blocked the sewers. The specimens have been dried out so they’re not as smelly, but they’re still hatching flies. Yuck!
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When you walk through the halls of New Trier High School in Winnetka Illinois, you might feel like you’re seeing double. The sophomore class of 1000 students contains 44 sets of twins and one set of triplets! Luke and Ryan Novosel applied to Guinness and the 91 students now officially hold the world record.
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Today is National Pizza Day, National Bagel Day, and National No One Eats Alone Day. It’s also National Toothache Day, but who would want to celebrate a toothache? Students started the No One Eats Alone movement so kids didn’t feel left out in the lunchroom. Eat pizza on a bagel with a new friend!
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A standard cat has 18 toes: 5 on the front paws and 4 on the back. But Paws from Minnesota is an overachieving cat. She has 28 toes! The polydactyl cat is tied for the world record with a Canadian cat named Jake. Between the two of them, they could count to 56!
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There’s a new reason to delay eating your broccoli: it could be better for you! Scientists know broccoli produces sulforaphane, which is the healthiest compound. Cooking broccoli destroys some of the sulforaphane, but you can help preserve it: chop it up and let it sit for 90 minutes before stir-frying it!
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The Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish has been studied by scientists for years because it has the secret to immortality. The jellyfish larva, or planula, creates a colony of polyps. Each polyp turns into a jellyfish. But if the jellyfish is hurt or starving, it can shrink back into a planula and start over!
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A doctor’s expert diagnosis on whether you have the flu is getting a laugh. “Do you feel like you’ve been hit by a train? If no, you don’t have the flu. If yes: have you been hit by a train? If yes, you’ve been hit by a train. If no, you have the flu.”
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