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Garbage collectors in Ankara Turkey are literary heroes. They started rescuing discarded books and collected so many, they opened a library! Located at the sanitation department’s headquarters, the library is open to the public and also loans books to schools and prisons. Now people donate books to the library instead of trashing them!
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400 pre-school students in Turkey set a beautiful world record. They created a marbled fabric painting 164 feet long. Marbling is done by floating an image on the surface a liquid and transferring it to fabric or paper. Try mixing food coloring in oil and swirl it into water, then marble your own paper!
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Often insect names represent the location where they were discovered, but Turkish scientist Erol Yıldırım has named a new insect Tiphia Bahattini after his father. There have been insects named after Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. Recently a wasp in New Zealand was named after the Harry Potter character Lucius Malfoy!
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Do you think you’ve eaten Thanksgiving leftovers in every way possible yet? Think again! Salt & Straw ice creamery has flavors like Apple Cranberry Stuffing and Buttered Mashed Potatoes & Gravy to go with the Salted Caramel Thanksgiving Turkey. I think I need a triple scoop ice cream cone!
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Does Turkey make you sleepy? Turkey contains tryptophan, an amino acid that creates chemicals in the body including melatonin. High levels of melatonin tell your brain, it’s sleepy time. Researchers say that many foods contain tryptophan, so it’s likely a combination of turkey, over eating, and over excitement that are leading to the drowsiness, not just the turkey.
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