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Everybody smile; it’s National Smile Day! See how many smiles you can collect from others, just by giving them a big grin! This one will be harder: it’s National Speak In Complete Sentences Day. See if anyone notices something unusual when you answer with more than “Yes”, “No”, or “Fine!”
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When Mount Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii in the year 79, it preserved the city in ash. Archaeologists continue to study the city’s ruins and its inhabitants nearly 2000 years later. They recently uncovered an unusual skeleton. He escaped the early eruptions, but was killed by a 661 pound rock landing on him. Talk about bad luck!
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Scientists have discovered an amazing thing about stick insects. Even if their camouflage fails and they get eaten by a bird, any eggs inside the insect can survive being digested! They can get pooped out far away and hatch, starting a new community. That’s the same way some seeds are dispersed! Stick bugs are like plants!
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Corey Patrick wanted to graduate from high school with his friends. Even though his family had moved to a different city, he made the long journey by bus every day. Getting to graduation on the bus in his cap and gown, his determination became such an inspiration, that radio host Ricky Smiley gave him a new car!
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In 1977, the first Star Wars movie was made. Now, you can buy a piece of the original movie set. A section of the Death Star, used in Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope, is being auctioned on ebay! You can bid on it until June third, but the price is already over $10,000.
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Quick! Send a telegraph; it’s Loomis Day! Mahlon Loomis was a dentist who introduced wireless telegraphy in 1868. He experimented with kites, sending signals through the atmosphere. He also invented artificial teeth! It’s also Water A Flower Day. Don’t let all your beautiful new flowers dehydrate now that the weather is heating up!
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Hjalti Hardarson, an inventor from Iceland, has invented a drone that looks and flies like a bird! He calls it Flygildi, or the Silent Flyer. The remote controlled robot uses flapping wings instead of rotors. He is still teaching the drone to fly like a bird, but radars are already unable to detect the difference!
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson, who’s spent 665 days on the International Space Station, says using the toilet in space can get a little gross. Everything gets sucked away by a fan since there is no gravity. But when the toilet starts filling up, you have to push the poop down with your hand! That’s pretty disgusting.
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A 4 year-old in France was in danger, hanging off a balcony 4 stories up. When Mamoudou Gassama saw the dangling boy, he dashed across the street and climbed the building, hoisting himself from balcony to balcony just like Spider-man! It took him only 30 seconds to rescue the boy, but Mamadou Gassama from Mali is a hero forever!
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Ticks are tiny arachnids that live on blood and can cause many diseases. But one opossum can eat 5000 ticks throughout the summer, when ticks are most active. The opossum is a marsupial that lives in the Americas. It may look like a big rat, with it’s long pink tail, but a possum family could make your yard tick-free!
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