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Today is Wright Brothers Day. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a mechanically propelled airplane, near Kitty Hawk North Carolina, in 1903. That flight only lasted 12 seconds, and went 120 feet. The wingspan of a 747 is longer than that! It’s also Maple Syrup Day. Boiled tree sap sure does taste delicious!

A dairy farm in New Jersey is looking more festive, after its residents put on their Christmas sweaters. Carol, Holly, Mary, Noelle, and Mariah Dairy were the lucky cows that got to wear the giant sweaters! The Jersey cows want to wish everyone a Dairy Christmas!

Animals sometimes need human help, in unusual situations. A horse’s hoof got caught, in a road barrier in Britain. In California, a puppy got her head trapped in a wheel rim, while a cat in North Carolina had its head stuck in a pasta can. They were all rescued by wonderful firefighters!

NASA’s Juno space probe, has been sending back some amazing images of Jupiter. A massive storm the size of Texas, is swirling around the planet’s South Pole. It joins 5 other cyclones, forming a hexagon around one central cyclone. The hexagonal area of storms is bigger than the Earth!

Nikki Spil and Sjoerd Laarhoven were tired of seeing polluted water on their favorite Dutch beach. They decided to plant seaweed crops, to help clean the water. The Sea Farm Ijmond’s seaweed harvest, is then used to create a material used in 3D-printers. After cleaning the water, seaweed replaces plastic! That’s one useful plant!

What are you eating for breakfast? Cover it in chocolate! Are you having a peanut butter sandwich for lunch? Dip it in chocolate! How about spaghetti for dinner, with chocolate syrup for sauce! Today is Chocolate Covered Anything Day, so it’s your chance to see if chocolate covered brussel sprouts are gross, or delicious!

A truck spilled its contents all over the road last week in Florida. Although the accident happened in Orange County, the truck was carrying grapefruits. The highway was covered with the big juicy fruit! Driving over grapefruits with your car, is not a very efficient way to get a glass of juice!

Scientists believe they’ve found the oldest figure paintings, in a cave in Indonesia. Some of the art shows hunters and wild buffalo. The paintings are 44,000 years old! Unfortunately, the wall paintings are quickly crumbling away, possibly because of higher temperatures in the cave. If there are other paintings, they’ll need to find them fast!

5-year-old Katelyn Hardee wants to help other kids. She set up a hot cocoa-and-cookies stand, to raise money to pay for their school meals! She was able to pay off the lunch debt of 123 kids in her school district in San Diego California. Her school recognized Katelyn’s generosity with an award.

Do you know anyone looking for a job, who loves coffee? Gevalia Kaffe is hiring someone, to live in a castle in Scotland for a week, and drink coffee! The Coffee Queen will get paid $5000, as well as receive $2000 spending money, and free spa treatments. Submit an essay at GevaliaCoffeeQueen.com.