Author: Lisa Mungovan

When you draw on the walls, you probably get in trouble. But 45,500 years ago, someone drew a pig on a cave wall, and everyone loves it! The hairy pig with warts, was found in Indonesia, and is the oldest-known animal drawing. The oldest drawing of any kind, is over 73,000 years old.

The state of Mississippi raised its new flag, over the state Capitol on Monday. The old design, which featured a Confederate flag used by the losing side in the US Civil War, was replaced with a magnolia flower, on a field of blue, red, and gold. State residents voted to change it last November.

Today is Organize Your Home Day, so put your house in order. Organize all your craft supplies, then make a kite to celebrate International Kite Day. Uttarayan is a huge kite festival in Ahmedabad India. They hold kite fights, where you try and cut the other person’s strings! I’d rather just watch mine fly.

Look out animals, because it’s Dress Up Your Pet Day! Dress your dog in a new sweater, your cat in a bow tie, and your tarantula in a tiny top hat. Stick paper clothes on your aquarium and photograph your fish at just the right angle. Reward your pets with treats for tolerating you!

David Rush and Jonathan Hannon set their newest world record, slicing apples. David sliced apples in the air, while juggling 3 knives. Jonathan threw the fruit at David, who successfully sliced 21 apples in 30 seconds. Luckily, he also succeeded in slicing zero fingers off. They also set the 1-minute record of 40 sliced apples, last October.

Last year, a family in Michigan lost their cat Olive, when their home was flooded. They were shocked to receive a call from the Humane Society months later, saying they had their cat! A couple with the last name of Flood, had found Olive! Luckily, she was microchipped, so they could find her family.

Do you ever eat a meal with chopsticks? Unless you use them often, you probably use disposable chopsticks. Canadian student Felix Bock, formed ChopValue, a company that makes items like furniture, shelves, and cutting boards, out of used chopsticks. He asked Vancouver restaurants to add chopstick-recycling bins. 4 years later, ChopValue has already recycled 64,000,000 sticks!

Every 8 years in Japan, millipedes create delays on the railways. They swarm onto the tracks, causing trains to come to a screeching halt. Scientists have discovered, that they’re actually periodical millipedes, which have an 8-year life cycle. They stay underground through 7 stages of development. Different broods hatch in different years, in different locations.

Rubber duckies love to float in your bathtub, keeping you company. Today is Rubber Ducky Day, so give your ducks some extra playtime! Let them stick around for Sticker Day. If you want to see unusual stickers, just go to an arts and crafts store and look in the scrapbooking section! Wowza!

Niraj Gadher, who owns the Chai Walla eatery in Bath England, wanted to spread a little laughter, by sending a samosa to space. He attached the potato-filled pastry to a weather balloon, along with a GoPro camera and GPS tracker. The samosa eventually crash-landed in a tree in France, where an animal ate it.