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Surfers in California, get ready. In about a week, energy from a massive storm in the Southern Hemisphere will travel across the ocean. A buoy near Campbell Island, south of New Zealand, recorded the largest known wave in the Southern Hemisphere: over 78 feet high! The buoy doesn’t record every wave, meaning others could have been even bigger!
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Artist Matthew Denton in Martinsburg, West Virginia wants to bring his community together to create art, so he created a space in his own backyard! Along with artist David Heatwole, he held the 222 Fence Project so that everyone could paint a board on his fence. The result will be a mural with 222 individual works of art!
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Vernon and Potate are best friends. Human next-door-neighbors adopted the dogs around the same time. A fence separates the two houses, and Tate and Vernon kept digging holes underneath to get to each other. Tate’s human, Hailee Graham, decided to make it easier for them to play together, and installed a doggie door in the fence!
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James Harrison has saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies in Australia. His blood contains a rare antibody, that neutralizes rhesus disease in pregnant women. Scientists used it to create a vaccine. James is called, the man with the golden arm, because he has donated blood every week for 60 years to save lives!
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In much of the world, today is Mother’s Day. Don’t forget to give Moms, and all the women that mother and care for you, an extra big hug! Today is also Leprechaun Day and Frog Jumping Day. They are both small and green and hard to catch, but only one will give you a pot of gold!
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When Steve Ruppel was a kid, he loved reading the Guinness Book of World Records. Now, he holds the world records for most donuts stacked in a minute, and fastest times to tie a shoe and to drink a liter of gravy. Yuck. He will run a half-marathon today for his next record attempt, wearing 52 shirts!
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Have you ever seen a stabby rainbow chicken at the zoo? How about a lightning noodle, at the aquarium. Maybe you’ve seen a panda dolphin while whale-watching! Those are fun names for cassowaries, electric eels, and killer whales that zoos and aquariums made up on social media, using hashtag rebrand-a-species. What animal would you rename?
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How good is your penmanship? Probably not as good as Anaya Ellick, a 9 year-old girl from Virginia who won the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest! Her cursive beat out kids in grades K through 8. What’s even more impressive is that Anaya was born without any hands, so she has to hold the pencil with her arms! Anaya is awesome!
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There was a tragic accident in Poland this week. A tanker truck full of CHOCOLATE flipped over and spilled all over the highway! No one was hurt, although more than 12 tons of liquid chocolate were wasted. It flowed over the road and hardened, but not before cars drove through and left chocolate trails for miles!
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There once was a young boy from France. He ripped a big hole in his pants. He sewed up the hole, with help from a mole, and then they played tag with some ants. It’s National Limerick Day! That’s the kind of poem I just made up. Can you write one too?
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