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California artist Sam Shoemaker, is also a fungi enthusiast. He creates sculptures out of mushrooms. Last year, he made a mushroom kayak, by growing mycelium into a fiberglass mold. After taking it on a 26-mile outing at sea, he now holds the world record, for longest journey in a mycelium fungi boat.
Police departments occasionally let people pay their parking tickets, by making donations to help the community. There have been requests for pet food, school supplies, and toys. In Chickasha Oklahoma, food donations can pay off your parking tickets, traffic violations, or library fines, through its Food for Fines Program. Everybody wins!
The Tsavo National Park in Kenya, is home to endangered elephants. Farmers living along the park’s border, used to have problems with elephants eating and trampling their crops. Now, they keep African honey bees in hives along the fence line. The hum of 70,000 bees, scares elephants away, and honey is a bonus crop.
In the early 16 hundred’s, a grape vine started growing in the mountains of Tibet. 416 years later, it was recognized as the oldest wild vine in the world. The vine is 26 feet tall, and more than 2 feet in diameter. Its grapes must have fed so many people over the centuries!
Today is World Kindness Day. Try to think about each thing you do, and make sure you’re being kind. Then go out of your way to do one nice thing for someone. Can you do that every day? Think how great the world would be, if everyone treated each other with kindness!
Today’s not a day for just any old rodent. It’s Fancy Rat And Mouse Day. Many people keep fancy rats and mice as pets. If you have a mouse in your house, leave out a little top hat and bow tie, so he can be fancy too!
Today is Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day. Top your pizza with everything but little fish! How about candy corn, bananas, and french fries! Speaking of french fries, it’s also French Dip Day. It’s a roast beef sandwich dipped in meat juice, but french fries dipped in french vanilla ice cream sounds better!
Did you know, that brushing your teeth, may be good for your lungs? Researchers observed that the elderly in nursing homes and hospitals, with poor oral hygiene, were more likely to get pneumonia. Dangerous microbes in saliva can be breathed into the lungs. Clean your teeth to keep your mouth and lungs healthy!
The Atacama Desert in Chile, is one of the driest places in the world, but recent rain has turned it into a flowering desert. 200 species of plants are blooming, some in areas that haven’t seen flowers in decades. The rare superbloom is carpeting the desert floor in brilliant color.
Hurricanes are becoming stronger and more common, as the Earth gets warmer. One company is working to make new homes, that are hurricane-resistant. Deltec homes are cylindrical, with conical roofs, and are anchored to stilts that reach deep into the bedrock. It’s tough for the wind to get a grip on the surface.