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High school senior Cynthia Pettaway was hospitalized last week, and was devastated that she would miss her high school graduation. But she got to cross the stage after all! A two way video on an ipad screen, let her remotely control a robot to accept her diploma. It even wore a cap and gown!
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The world’s longest inflatable obstacle course looks like fun! It’s 1,625 feet of climbing, ducking, squeezing and jumping on a bed of air. It was created by Hold My Shoes and V-Formation, and will be in the UK next weekend. Be on the lookout for the Beast; it will be touring the world later this year!
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Scientists have figured out how to heat water faster. By using a laser pulse made of x-rays, they heated water to 100,000 degrees Celsius, in 75 femtoseconds (which is a millionth of a billionth second). Heating water molecules usually makes them shake stronger and stronger. An x-ray laser punches the electrons right off the molecule!
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Don’t get annoyed that you have to make your bed every morning. Chimpanzees have to make their bed every night, literally! They weave a new bed each evening out of sticks and leaves, 30 feet up in a tree. Researchers found that chimp beds have very few parasites or microbes, unlike human beds. Ours are full of microbes!
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Get out your violins, because it’s World Fiddle Day! When you’re playing Irish, folk, or bluegrass music on your violin, it’s more commonly called a fiddle. It’s also Plant a Lemon Tree Day! If you play your fiddle under a lemon tree, you can blame any sour notes on the lemons!
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Odilon Ozare likes top hats. The milliner, or hat maker, thinks they enhance the greatness of the wearer. I guess he’s enhanced his greatness to the max, because he set a world record for the tallest hat. His first attempt blew off his head and was crushed, but his second top hat stands nearly 16 feet tall!
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That little insect buzzing around you might be RoboFly! A tiny flying robot that weighs about the same as a toothpick is powered by lasers! RoboFly uses a lightweight circuit to convert laser light into electrical power so it can fly freely. The tiny robots could be good for tracking down gas leaks in tight spaces.
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A man in Gaylord Michigan got quite a surprise when he looked under the hood of his car. A squirrel had stashed over 50 pounds of pine cones in every nook and cranny! Kellen Moore and his friend, Gabe Awrey, spent 45 minutes getting all the pine cones out. Luckily, the car still ran just fine!
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What if you could travel anywhere in the world in one hour? Elon Musk plans to combine his Boring Company’s Hyperloop, which is a high-speed underground train, with his SpaceX Company’s BFR rocket. After a train whizzes you to a spaceport, a rocket will launch you 16,777 miles-per-hour to your destination! That won’t take long, did it!
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Hooray! It’s National No Dirty Dishes Day! See if you can go the whole day without dirtying a dish, so you don’t have to wash anything! A good way to do that is to order pizza, which is perfect because it’s also National Pizza Party Day! Who needs dishes anyway!
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