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Over the weekend in California, Snoop Dogg broke a world record. The rapper mixed up the largest gin and juice in the world! The giant paradise cocktail had 180 bottles of gin, 154 bottles of apricot brandy, 38 bottles of orange juice, a pineapple and melon garnish on a sword, a pink parasol, blocks of ice, and a massive straw!
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Misha and Blizzard are snow leopards at the Sacramento Zoo in California. They are also parents to a new baby snow leopard! You can’t visit Misha and her cub right now because they need their privacy, but he’ll get a name and be introduced to the public later this summer.
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Starting in 2020, all new homes in California will be built with solar panels on the roof, to harness energy from the sun. The California Energy Commission hopes that as solar panels become more popular, they will also get cheaper. Solar energy is clean and efficient, and doesn’t pollute the Earth’s atmosphere!
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NASA just launched an interplanetary rocket from California. If all goes as planned, the Mars InSight lander will arrive on Mars in less than 7 months, on November 26th. The lander’s mission is to drill down to check the planet’s soil temperature, place a seismometer to measure marsquakes, and install antennas to measure the planet’s movements.
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The Los Angeles Zoo in California has many new baby animals to visit! There are 2 Chacoan Peccary piglets, that look like hairy pigs; 2 Sichuan takin calves, that are like goat-antelopes; 2 ocelot kittens, which are spotted wildcats; an Eastern bongo calf, which is a striped antelope; and 7 Peninsular pronghorn fawns, which resemble deer. What a baby boom!
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The world’s largest dog photo shoot must have been fun to watch. 108 dogs had their portraits taken in Los Angeles California, to celebrate filming the final scene of “Superpower Dogs.” All of the canine subjects were also stars in the documentary about dogs. I can’t wait for the movie to come out!
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Victorville California didn’t get buried in snow. The town on the edge of the Mojave Desert got covered in tumbleweeds! The dry brush rolled in on 50 mile per hour wind gusts, and piled up to 7 feet high. The fronts of some houses were completely covered by tumbleweeds, stuck together like Legos. Cleanup could take a while!
Los Angeles is trying a new tactic to beat the California heat. They are painting the streets gray! The light-colored sealant prevents the asphalt from retaining heat, and can reduce surface temperatures by 23 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooler streets reduce the air temperatures in urban areas, which also saves electricity used for air conditioning. Cool!
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has plans to create transportation tunnels under California and the East Coast of the United States. He has raised money by selling hats, flamethrowers, and now interlocking rocks! Giant Lego-like bricks made from the rock dug out of the tunnels will be sold in kits, the first one being Ancient Egypt.
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Getting towed by a boat while you’re water skiing is so boring. Getting towed by a blimp is the way to do it! Kari McCollum broke the world record for water skier towed by a blimp by skiing 6.9 miles along a California lake. I wonder if she’ll try air skiing next!
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