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Stephen King is an author who’s sold over 350,000,000 books. Many of his stories have been made into movies, like Pet Semetary and It. Some film students want to make a movie based on one of his short stories, so he sold them the rights for only 1 dollar, and a copy of the completed movie!
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Today is National Food Day, with the goal of getting people to eat natural, healthier foods. Go for the day without processed snack foods, and make a meal with fresh ingredients. It’s United Nations Day also. The UN works for all people on Earth, offering help during natural disasters, medical emergencies, and war.
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YouTube star Mr Beast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson, likes to surprise people with extreme acts of generosity. His latest act took place at Sup Dogs Restaurant in North Carolina. He ordered 2 glasses of water from waitress Alaina Custer, drank a few sips, then left a little tip: $10,000!
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The Oregon Zoo is getting into the Halloween spirit by sharing skelfies. They’re posting x-rays of awesome animals on their website. Bats, snakes, chameleons, and beavers look a little different when you’re just seeing their skeletons! Everybody has an amazing costume hidden inside.
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China will open the world’s longest seabridge today. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridgeis over 34 miles long, 20 times as long as the Golden Gate Bridge! It’s curved design looks like a snake, and will hold up during earthquakes or 221 mile per hour winds. 420,000 tons of steel were used in its construction!
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17 year-old Benji Williams has been making rubber band balls since he was 6. Now he wants to make the largest rubber band ball in the world, and he needs a little help! He has a GoFundMe site to collect donations for more rubber bands, and show a video of his progress.
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Today is Mole Day. It has nothing to do with the animals that tunnel underground, or skin growths, or the sauce made from chilis and chocolate. It refers to the unit of measurement for a substance. At 6:02 on 10/23, Avogadro’s Number is represented. 6.02 x 10^23 is roughly the number of particles per mole.
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Attention! Chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows! A recent study of 1000 adults, showed 48% of them didn’t know where chocolate milk came from, and 7% thought it only came from brown cows. For the record, chocolate milk is just milk with chocolate syrup added. But I wonder if strawberry milk comes from pink cows!
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About 200 people gathered in Soka Japan, to make the world’s largest rice cracker mosaic. Using 7 different flavors of Sokasenbei crackers, they recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. The mosaic covered 126 square yards, and used 23,360 tasty crackers. After lots of photographs, they ate the artwork bite by bite!
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Last week, NASA took a photograph of Antarctica that shows a totally rectangular iceberg. Although it looks man-made, it’s actually perfectly natural. It’s called a tabular iceberg, with nearly vertical sides and a flat top. The crisp angles occur when a chunk breaks off the ice shelf. The largest was a 4,200 square mile giant!
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