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Today’s going to be fun! It’s Two Different Colored Shoes Day! Walk proudly in your mismatched shoes. No need to be normal. Besides, it’s Paranormal Day! Celebrate the strange things that can’t be explained by science, by watching Ghostbusters or Harry Potter. Then relax in the garden, because it’s Garden Meditation Day. Chill out!
Reagan and Ricardo Razon, are 17-year-old twins from North Carolina. The seniors have a big decision to make, after getting accepted into 15 different top universities, including Harvard, Yale, and MIT. They also received over $1,500,000 in scholarships. After attending school together their entire lives, they’re trying to make their college choices separately. Great work twins!
Microplastics are tiny particles of plastic that end up in everything, including the water you drink. Scientists are exploring ways to trap the microscopic trash, using a sticky bacterial biofilm, created by micro-organisms. The biofilm collects microplastics until it sinks to the bottom of a bioreactor, where the plastic can be easily recovered.
Lemonade Day, calls for an extraordinary glass of lemonade. If you really want to impress people, make it change color! An ingredient called butterfly pea flower, can make your lemonade turn purple, pink, or indigo. First make a tea with the flowers, then pour into your lemonade, for a colorful show!
Today is National Truffle Day. The chocolate truffle is a ball of rich, creamy chocolate ganache, covered or filled with a variety of other ingredients. Delicious! Oh, you don’t like candy? Then you can eat the other kind of decadent truffle: the extremely expensive fungi grows underground and is found by truffle hogs or dogs.
Some people say, laughter is the best medicine. It’s definitely a stress reliever, and it makes you feel better. Since today is World Laughter Day, tell a few jokes. Would you like to hear 2 short jokes and a long joke?
Joke! Joke! Jo-oh-oh-oke! Ha ha ha ha ha!
If you love collecting Pokemon, but don’t want to capture, train, and battle them, you might enjoy New Pokemon Snap. The game, created for the Nintendo Switch, lets you explore islands, and photograph Pokemon. There are around 200 different Pokemon to locate. Observe them in their natural habitat, and get them to pose for you.
Some of the tiniest frogs in the world, are types of pumpkin toadlets. Their bright orange color makes them easy to spot, and warns predators that they’re poisonous. They also glow neon green, under ultraviolet light. A new pumpkin toadlet species was recently discovered, in the mountains of Brazil. Its name is Brachycephalus rotenbergae.
Tuba players rejoice. It’s Tuba Day! Practice outside, so everyone can enjoy it. Today is also Global Love Day, and entertaining others is one way, to show your love for everyone. While we’re at it, let’s spread the Global Love beyond Earth, since it’s Space Day as well. How many planets can you name?
Today is Free Comic Book Day! Many stores are excited to introduce people to the world of graphic novels, by giving them a free book. Find a participating comic book store near you. On your way, look for orange and black butterflies, because it’s Start Seeing Monarchs Day! Plant milkweed for them to eat.