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James Harrison has saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies in Australia. His blood contains a rare antibody, that neutralizes rhesus disease in pregnant women, and scientists used it to create a vaccine. You don’t have to have special blood to save lives, though. People donate blood every day, to people who need it!
James Harrison has saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies in Australia. His blood contains a rare antibody, that neutralizes rhesus disease in pregnant women. Scientists used it to create a vaccine. James is called, the man with the golden arm, because he has donated blood every week for 60 years to save lives!
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If you live in the middle of Australia and walk 500 miles in any direction, you’ll still be in Australia. But if you live in Austria, a 500 mile walk could take you to 30 different countries! Just think of all the different languages you’d hear. You could also build an amazing coin and stamp collection!
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The poor durian fruit. It has such a strong smell that it’s forbidden in many hotels and taxis in Asia. Singapore has banned the smelly durian from the entire public transportation system! In Australia, the fire department evacuated a University library in search of a gas leak. It was just a rotting durian fruit!
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Teenagers Nick Heath and Jack Donnelly were riding their motorbikes near Sydney, Australia when they spotted a kangaroo buried in mud. Nick crawled through the mud quarry to rescue the baby kangaroo, then Jack pulled them back with a rope. They named the roo Lucas, gave him a bath, and took him to a wildlife rescue service to recover.
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An Australian dog named Max is a hero! Max is 17 years old, deaf, and partially blind. But when his owner’s 3 year-old girl wandered off, he followed along with her. Max stayed with Aurora for 15 hours until a search party got close. Then he met the toddler’s grandmother and led her right to Aurora!
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The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest coral reef in the world, and it’s not doing so well. Rising ocean temperatures are the biggest threat to coral reefs. The Australian Institute of Marine Biology thinks sunscreen may be the answer! They’re testing a thin floating shield of calcium carbonate which will protect the coral from bleaching!
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A museum in Sydney Australia was surprised to find that a coffin they’d thought was empty for 150 years, actually held a mummy! The 2500 year old sarcophagus had been donated saying it had mixed debris in it. The skull is filled with resin, similar to King Tut’s skull, so Egyptologists are excited to study it!
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A 6-year old Australian girl was saved by a robot! Freyja had a tumor in her head that the doctors couldn’t remove, but a surgeon was able to use robot technology to do the dangerous operation. She is back home now and ready to get back to swimming and riding horses!
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132 years ago, the Captain of the Paula stuffed a message in a bottle and tossed it in the ocean. It was just found on a beach in Australia! It turned out to be part of a German experiment from 1886 charting ocean currents, when thousands of bottles were thrown from German ships. That trip took a while!
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