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The Kepler space telescope hunts for planets. It had located 7 planets orbiting the star Kepler 90, in the Draco constellation. Artificial intelligence went over the telescope data and found one more planet making 8, just like our solar system! Kepler 90i is also the third from its sun, but it’s an uninhabitable 400 degrees Celsius.
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Are you a Star Wars fan? The biggest fans lined up for hours to see special midnight premiers of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Many people dressed in costume for the big event. Some people bought their tickets as early as the summer! So far the reviews are out of this world.
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When Ryan Prendergast went to his wrestling match, he didn’t expect two opponents at the same time! 5 year-old Ryan was wrestling Ruby in Indiana when a toddler ran out and tried to pull him away. The 2 year-old thought his sister was in a fight and was trying to rescue her! How sweet!
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Quick, go find your most hideous Christmas sweater. It’s Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! You can buy sweaters with a dinosaur under a disco ball, a UFO with flashing lights, dancing cats, or even Darth Vader in a Santa hat! Or decorate your own sweater by adding ornaments or cotton for snow. Be creative!
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Warning: this will be gross. Researcher Grace Tung Johnson built a vomiting machine to study how vomit makes other people sick. Some particles are so small that they become aerosolized and float through the air more than 100 feet. Another machine named Vomiting Larry showed how hard it is to clean up. Yuck!
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Today is National Biscuits and Gravy Day. It is also National Monkey Day! It started when artist Casey Sorrow scribbled Monkey Day on his friend’s calendar as a joke. They started celebrating with other Michigan State University artists and it grew in popularity. So today, eat biscuits and gravy like a monkey!
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Nora the baby polar bear had a solitary life at the Columbus and Oregon Zoos. She had no polar bear adults to teach her the bear basics. Now, she is finally having fun with another polar bear at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. 2 year-old Nora and her new friend Hope love to play!
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The astronomer group METI, which stands for messaging extraterrestrial intelligence, beams messages into outer space hoping for a reply from aliens. Their recent mail has an address: GJ 273. Luyten’s star is a planet that could support life. The message contained 33 songs, mathematics and speech saying, “Please reply”. It will take 12 years to arrive!
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A Siamese cat jumped over 11 feet yesterday to set a world record. Bud D Boy made the fantastic horizontal leap in front of an audience in Florida. Scott Sturtz adopted Bud D Boy from a shelter 9 years ago when he was a kitten. The amazing Bud D Boy can also use a toilet!
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The United States is seeing snow this month. Winter Storm Benjamin even brought rare snow to Florida and southern Texas. But Mount Baker, a ski resort in Washington’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, holds the record for most snow ever in one season: 1140 inches! That’s 95 feet of snow! I need a bigger shovel.
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