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17-year-old Tyra Winters was riding on a float in her school’s homecoming parade, when she saw a woman yelling for help. Her 2-year-old was choking on candy, so Tyra jumped down to the rescue. The cheerleader had learned to help choking children, from her mom in the medical field. She saved the toddler’s life!

Today is World Octopus Day! Octopuses have 3 hearts, and 8 arms, not tentacles. Tentacles only have suckers at the tips. Octopuses are extremely intelligent, masters of camouflage, and escape artists! Today is also Touch Tag Day. An octopus would be great at water tag! My favorite version is freeze tag. Tag, you’re it!

There’s a ghost ship in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. A hologram of an 18th century ship, is hovering in the Delaware River. The 3D art installation was created using light and water. Accompanied by recordings of the history of the Delaware River, the ship will be on display many evenings until November 3rd.

Have you ever learned to knit? Maybe you’ve created a warm scarf or woolly socks. Artist Althea Crone, is a micro knitter. She knits beautiful, intricate sweaters that are smaller than a fingernail, sometimes using needles as thin as a human hair! You can see her sweaters and gloves in the movie, “Coraline.”

Police officers in Canada performed an incredible feat of bravery. They pulled a container off a skunk’s head! The poor little skunk had its head stuck in a plastic bottle, and was running around in circles. Constable David Edgar plucked the bottle off, and ran away quickly, successfully dodging the skunk’s horrible-smelling spray!

Did you know October is Pizza Month? You could have a different pizza every day. Try barbecue or pesto sauce instead of tomato sauce. Put banana or potato slices on it. Make a dessert pizza with maraschino cherries and chocolate sauce. Create individual crazy pizzas, and trade slices with your friends!

Today is Bathtub Day, so skip your shower and take a relaxing bubble bath instead! You could also pamper your tub by giving it a good cleaning. It’s also Change A Light Day, also known as National LED Light Day. Light Emitting Diode bulbs are bright and energy efficient, and last a long time!

Physicist Sterling Backus and his son Xander, 3D printed a supercar! They took the design for a Lamborghini Aventador, and added their own flair. Most of the car is printed from plastic, but it contains a Corvette V8 engine from a junkyard. They’ve posted a video of their first test drive. It looks amazing!

The Seawater Greenhouse company has discovered a way to grow fruits and vegetables in the desert, using solar power and saltwater. Plants grow in cooling houses made of cardboard. Solar power pumps saltwater, to dampen the cardboard. The water evaporates and keeps the inside cool, and salt collects on the walls to be harvested.

Fruit leather is a fun way to eat dehydrated fruit puree, but the SAMARA fashion company is making actual fruit leather. Instead of using plastic to make fake leather, they’re using apple peels! Their first product is the Apple-Leather Mini Purse. The vegan leather is created from discarded apple skins from juice factories.