Author: Lisa Mungovan

Is it going to be another hot day where you live? Forget about exerting yourself, and just spend the day relaxing in a hammock. It’s Hammock Day, as well as Mango Day. Slice up a sweet chilled mango, to eat while you’re hanging around. Make sure everyone gets a turn, to enjoy Hammock Day!

Sometimes when people win the lottery, they don’t want everyone to know. A man in Jamaica decided to keep his jackpot secret, by collecting his winnings dressed as Darth Vader! He won over $600,000, which he will use to buy a house and a bus. Would you ride a bus, driven by Darth Vader?

Penguins at the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall England, got a new toy. Someone gave them a bubble machine as a gift! Chasing the bubbles keeps the penguins entertained. The squirrel monkeys and Sulawesi crested macaques, have also had fun with bubble machines in the past. In the wild, hunting would keep them busy instead.

The oldest known human settlement in North America, existed 11,500 years ago. At least that’s what scientists believed, until they investigated some coprolites more closely. Coprolites are fossilized poop, and the samples they studied, came from humans, 14,000 years ago. They were found in the Paisley Caves in Oregon, along with petrified dog poop.

Sinkholes are places where a big hole forms on land, and anything built on top of it, gets swallowed up. When a sinkhole forms in the ocean, it’s called a blue hole. Scientists are about to explore a blue hole near Florida, called Green Banana. They will study the microbes living there.

Today is Junk Food Day. Junk food is usually stuff that tastes good, but doesn’t have a lot of nutritional value for your body. For an iguana, lettuce is junk food! It’s also Be Someone Day. Adults should try to be someone, that kids can come to for help. Kids, who is your someone?

Maybe Cleo didn’t like her new house. Maybe she missed her old friends, or left a favorite toy behind. Whatever the reason, Cleo the dog left her family’s new home in Kansas, and traveled 60 miles, showing up on her old doorstep in Missouri. Luckily, Cleo was microchipped, so it was easy to find her family.

Some of the most remote parts of Kenya, will soon have internet service. As part of Google’s Loon Project, a bunch of giant balloons will be released over the country. 35 balloons will act like cell phone towers, providing internet signals across 19,000 square miles. Google’s Loon balloons are already at work in Sri Lanka.

In 2006, German artist Torsten Lauschmann, proposed an event where 600,000,000 people in the Western Hemisphere would jump at the same time, to change the Earth’s orbit and standardize the climate. It was meant to be a satirical art event, drawing attention to global warming. Celebrate World Jump Day, by jumping as high as you can!

It can take a long time to finish a lollipop if you just lick it, instead of biting it. It’s Lollipop Day, so get a big colorful lollipop, and make it last all day! You can play a leisurely game of chess while you eat it, because it’s also International Chess Day. Checkmate!