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The world is a busy place, and waiting for the perfect moment to do something may never come. Just embrace the craziness, on Chaos Never Dies Day! Today is also World Freedom Day, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Learn about the history of East and West Germany, and be thankful for freedom!

You know what makes brushing your teeth more fun? Setting a world record, by doing it with thousands of other people! Students at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, set a world record for India’s National Tooth Brushing Day. 25,000 students gathered in one place to brush their teeth simultaneously. Watch out when they spit!

The University of Alaska is trying to help combat student hunger, while making it easier to pay parking tickets. They’re allowing people to pay off their parking fines, by donating jars of peanut butter and jelly! I wonder if any hungry students will collect their own parking fines, from the Emergency Food Cache.

Israel Antonio Briseño Carmona, is a college student in Mexico with a great formula for road pavement. He developed a putty using recycled tires and additives, that uses water to form calcium silicates. That means, every time it rains, the road surface repairs itself! His invention won the National James Dyson Award. Congratulations!

The village of Piplantri, in Rajasthan India, started a wonderful tradition. Since 2006, whenever a girl is born in their community, they plant 111 fruit trees! The number 111 is believed to bring success, and the 350,000 trees planted so far, have succeeded in bringing resources to the village. What a fruitful way to celebrate girls!

Today is Cappuccino Day, a delicious version of coffee made with espresso and foamy steamed milk. Speaking of steam, it’s also National STEAM Day, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. The day was created to inspire kids to explore those subjects, for possible careers in the future.

There was a parade in Brazil at Cumbuco Beach, but it wasn’t marching down the sand. Instead, 640 kite surfers formed a procession in the water. Only 596 of the surfers completed the 1 mile parade, in order to break the world record. It must have been hard to avoid getting tangled up with each other!

Oh no, the toilet paper roll is empty again. If only they made gigantic rolls for your house, like they have in some public restrooms. Charmin just made that wish come true! Now you can buy 3 giant Forever Rolls of toilet paper, with a freestanding holder, for $30. Whoever’s strongest can change the empty roll.

As an alternative to the Melbourne Cup horse race, an animal sanctuary in Australia held the Compassionate Stakes, T-Rex Cup races. The Little Oak Sanctuary organized dinosaur footraces and roller skate races in Canberra, to raise money to take care of former racehorses. Clumsy, colorful T-Rexes were more fun to watch, and cruelty-free!

Have you seen Bigfoot? Someone stole him! A 300-pound, 8-foot-tall statue of Sasquatch was taken from the Mattress Monsters store in Florida last month. There have been thousands of possible real ‘Squatch sightings over the years, but there’s still no proof that the legendary creature actually exists. The statue should be easier to spot!