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Let’s all celebrate, Be Kind To Humankind Week. Give someone a flower or a compliment, or help out around the house without being asked. Write a nice note to a teacher, or hold the door for a stranger. It’s also Just Because Day, so if they ask why you’re so nice, say “Just because!”

Jump around like a monkey, because it’s Banana Lovers’ Day! What a perfect fruit. It comes already wrapped, and it’s delicious! It’s also Tug-Of-War Day. 2 teams grab a rope and try to drag each other across a line. Vikings used to play over a fire pit, but a mud pit is more fun!

Are you really good, at playing rock paper scissors? Join a professional league, at W-r-p-s-a.com. The World Rock Paper Scissors Association, gives you all the best strategies, guidelines, and news. They started Rock Paper Scissors Day, to encourage everyone to use the game to solve problems. Remember, paper covers rock smashes scissors cut paper.

3,00,000,000 years ago, Mars had water on the surface, and scientists think they know where it all went. The Red Planet’s mantle has deep cracks, through which the water may have disappeared. Enough water to cover the surface with a 1-mile-deep ocean, might be hidden 12 miles below the surface, perhaps containing undersea life!

If you want to visit any of 233,000 old trees in the United Kingdom, you can look up their precise location. The Woodland Trust created an Ancient Tree Inventory, allowing anyone familiar with a magnificent old tree, to add its location and size details. The record helps protect and preserve notable trees.

Scientists have found that white, heat-reflecting paint, helps cool cities and buildings, by reflecting the Sun’s rays. But what if you want a nice blue house instead? Lightweight plasmonic paint, has a bottom layer that reflects 80% of mid-infrared light, which is usually absorbed as heat. The top layer is filled with colored nanoparticles.

Are you going to go apple picking this season? Find an apple orchard nearby, and stock up! See how many varieties you can eat, while you walk around collecting the perfect apples. Many orchards also sell hot apple cider. Make sure you bring enough apples home to also make a pie or some applesauce!

Today is Toilet Paper Day. Before TP was invented, people used corn husks, rags, stones, or whatever else was handy to wipe themselves! You know who doesn’t need toilet paper? Dogs! Today is also Dog Day, so pamper your poochie, or play with a friend’s dog. Pretend you’re a dog, and bark at everyone.

Every year, the town of Buñol Spain, has a giant food fight. This is the 80th anniversary, of the original tomato fight between teenage boys at a parade. Now, thousands of people gather to throw 240,000 pounds of tomatoes, grown just for the La Tomatina Festival, at each other.

Today is Park Service Founders Day, marking 109 years since the National Park Service was formed. Everyone can help protect the parks. One kid returned a rock, apologizing for taking it from the Smokey Mountains. Park rangers thanked her for understanding, that if all visitors took a souvenir, 11,000,000 rocks would disappear every year!