Author: Lisa Mungovan

Today is Fresh Spinach Day! Eat a spinach salad, or roll the leaves up and eat them like a carrot. It’s also Guinea Pig Appreciation Day. Give your furry pet lots of love, but only feed them spinach once a week. Guinea pigs are rodents, with individual personalities. They’re great pets, but need lots of space!

9-year-old Michaela Munyan is the owner and CEO, of the Friendly Chupacabra Face Covering Company in Michigan. Also, she doesn’t get paid. Michaela sews face masks, and gives them to friends, family, restaurant employees, and health care workers. She’s donated over 600 masks so far. What an awesome way to spread happiness, instead of germs!

It’s a hot summer day, and you can hear the ice cream truck, but it doesn’t come down your street. Dagnabbit. In New Jersey, there’s a fix for that. You can register your address and phone number, and the Scream Truck will text you when it’s nearby, and come to you if you reply!

If you’re over 18 and have a Nintendo Switch, you might get to earn some extra bells this summer. HighSpeedInternet.com is looking for someone to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons for 50 hours, and they’ll pay $1000. Apply at their website, and maybe you’ll get paid to catch a coelacanth, find fossils, and get stung by bees.

Today is I Love Horses Day. Whether you horseback ride, or just enjoy watching them, horses are wonderful. If you’re lucky enough to have one for a pet, include them for Pet Fire Safety Day. Survey your home for ways your pets could start fires, and create an emergency rescue plan for them.

Today is Give Something Away Day. Maybe it’s a toy you don’t use anymore, or some shoes you outgrew, but someone out there is sure to find a use for it! It’s also Gummy Worm Day, and Tapioca Pudding Day. Put the worms in pudding, then give some servings of your yummy gummy dessert away!

Juggling 3 balloons sounds pretty easy, right? But could you keep them afloat, for over an hour? David Rush, who has broken over 150 world records, used his body to keep 3 balloons in the air, for 1 hour and 12 minutes. He used an empty gym, so he didn’t have any interference. That must have left him winded!

A Greek student in Scotland was stranded, when airlines cancelled flights due to the pandemic. Determined to get home, Kleon Papadimitriou rode his bike instead. It took him 48 days to make the 2175-mile journey, riding 35-75 miles per day. He probably could have caught a flight later on, but where’s the adventure in that!

Last year, the Chinese Yutu-2 rover found a crater on the far side of the Moon, with a gel-like substance in it. The glossy patch has finally been identified. It’s just melted rock, probably created during a meteor impact. It welded the dusty gravel called regolith, to chunks of cemented rock called breccia.

Today is Shark Awareness Day. There are over 400 species of sharks, from the 7-inch dwarf lanternshark, to the 60-foot whale shark. Only 34 shark species have ever made a rare attack on a human, but humans kill over 100,000,000 sharks per year. You’re actually 20 times more likely to get killed by a cow, than a shark!