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Today is Hippo Day. Hippopotamuses are quite dangerous animals, killing around 3000 people each year! These water loving pachyderms can’t swim. They mark territory by flinging poop with their tails. They produce pink milk, which reminds me: it’s also National Gumdrop Day! Percy Truesdell was the Gumdrop King, perfecting the candy in 1915.
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An Arizona woman went to bed with a headache and woke up with a British accent! She was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare illness that can happen after a brain injury. Michelle Myers has had Australian and Irish accents for 2 weeks before, but the British episode has lasted two years.
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One of the coolest souvenirs for sale in Minneapolis during the Super Bowl was snow. The ad agency space150 sold snowballs in a vending machine! For one dollar, you’d get a see-through can with a handmade Minnesota snowball in it, and the money was donated to the Wilderness Inquiry organization.
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Some days I don’t know whether I want a pancake or a waffle for breakfast. You’ll never have to choose again, because a genius created a panwaffle maker! It makes a mini waffle surrounded by a ring of pancake. It might be as good as my Darth Vader waffle iron.
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If you see someone with a dirt smudge on their forehead today, it’s probably not because they’re messy. Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian period of fasting before Easter called Lent. Some people wear ashes as a sign of repentance. You still have to wash your face!
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Saint Valentine was a priest put to death in the third century, but legends vary as to the reason why. His feast day evolved into a celebration of love in the Middle Ages. The best reason to celebrate today is to show appreciation to people in your life. And to eat chocolate!
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SpotMini is a robot dog created by Boston Dynamics. You might have seen past videos of it slipping on a banana peel or loading the dishwasher, but the robot dog has learned a new trick. SpotMini can now open doors! It even has nice manners and holds the door open for its robot friends.
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Ten years ago in Apollo Pennsylvania, the Suiverveld’s lost their dog. They eventually gave up looking for Abby, thinking she had died. An animal shelter called them recently announcing, “We have your dog!” They had tracked them down through the black lab’s microchip, and Abby is now reunited with her overjoyed family!
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Garbage collectors in Ankara Turkey are literary heroes. They started rescuing discarded books and collected so many, they opened a library! Located at the sanitation department’s headquarters, the library is open to the public and also loans books to schools and prisons. Now people donate books to the library instead of trashing them!
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Ho hum. Another banana that I have to peel before I eat it, and then discard the peel where no one will slip on it. But, what’s this? A banana with a peel you can eat! D&T Farm in Japan developed the Mongay banana with an edible skin, but they only sell 10 per week!
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