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Are you looking for a book to read this summer, that’s a real gas? Zoologist Dani Rabaiotti and ecologist Nick Caruso created a guide to animal flatulence called “Does It Fart?” Birds and sloths don’t fart. Whales do it on an epic scale. Dinosaurs could have farted 4 pounds of methane per day!
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Scientist Piotr Naskrecki created a nature documentary called “The Human Botfly”. He found his skin infested with botflies after a trip to Belize. Naskrecki extracted one, but let the others continue their life cycle and filmed the whole process. Watching maggots make their film debut is both revolting and fascinating!
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While you’re on your summer break, I bet you’re enjoying sleeping in. Human adults need 8 hours of sleep while babies need 16. Bats sleep about 20 hours, and giraffes take brief naps that add up to two hours a day. Dolphins can sleep with half of their brain and just keep swimming!
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The Erie Seawolves baseball team unveiled a treat last week, that is the stuff of nightmares. In honor of their Sugar Rush Night, they sold hot dogs wrapped in a cotton candy bun. Ketchup and mustard were replaced by candy Nerds. If this sounds good to you, I think I’ll skip dinner at your house!
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Today is International Plastic Bag Free Day! Don’t use any plastic bags when you go shopping. Get reusable bags and vow to use them from now on! Then look in the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you are. It’s Compliment Your Mirror Day, and the person in your mirror is you!
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Have you lost control of your gaming habits? Do you prioritize playing video games over other activities, even if there are negative consequences? You could have gaming disorder. Excessive gaming that becomes an addiction can cause ruined relationships, lost jobs and even rare fatalities. Take a break and go outside!
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Did your grandparents ever have a chemistry set? Those sets could be dangerous! They contained poisonous cyanide to dissolve gold, blowtorches to make glass test tubes, radioactive uranium to practice measuring radiation, and carcinogenic asbestos to dust for fingerprints. Now, some chemistry sets don’t even contain chemicals!
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Uh-oh, parents have a new argument for not getting you that new toy. Researchers found that having too many toys can stifle creativity. When kids in their study were given only a few toys, they played with them longer, created new uses for the toys and had more fun overall!
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Glaucoma is a condition that causes pressure to build up in the eye and damage the optic nerve. It can cause vision loss or even blindness. Researchers found that people who drink a daily cup of caffeinated hot tea could have a 74% less chance of developing glaucoma! Pour me a cup of tea, please!
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Holler for your interstellar friends to join you for some challah! It’s Earth Challah Day and World UFO Day! Who could say no to delicious bread? If you can’t spot a UFO today, make your own Unidentified Flying Objects. Fling some things through the air and see who can guess what it was!
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