Author: Lisa Mungovan

Today is Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day. Pretend you’ve found a hunk of gold, in the 18 48 California Gold Rush! Your impression might make people laugh, for Belly Laugh Day! After all that prospectin’ and laughin’, you’ll need a hearty snack. It’s Peanut Butter Day, so dig into a jar, with a celery shovel!

A geode is a rock with a hollow cavity, filled with crystals. Miners in Uruguay recently found a heart-shaped geode, filled with purple amethyst crystals. Now, a geologist has found another incredible geode in Brazil. The blue agate and crystals form a face, that looks just like the smiling, googly-eyed Cookie Monster!

While you’re sitting around doing nothing, your body is hard at work. It’s making 3.8 million cells, every second! Your blood cells are constantly dying, and being replaced with new ones. So are the cells in your gut, and your skin. Feed your body healthy foods, so it has the energy to produce 330,000,000,000 cells-per-day.

If you look at any social media today, you’ll probably see an old guy looking cold, sitting everywhere. That’s Bernie Sanders, a US Senator from Vermont. He wore his favorite coat and mittens to the Presidential Inauguration, and people love his comfortable style. His mittens were handmade, from re-purposed wool sweaters and recycled plastic!

March 14th is Pi Day, spelled P-I, which is a mathematical term. Today however, is Pie Day, spelled P-I-E, which is a delicious food term. Eat everything in a flaky crust today! Have quiche, pumpkin pie, pot pie, lemon meringue pie, shepherd’s pie, apple pie, cherry-blueberry-chocolate cream-strawberry rhubarb pie-pie-pie!

How big are your feet? You might know what size you wear, but I bet you don’t know how many centimeters long they are! Today is Measure Your Feet Day, so find the square footage of your foot! It’s also Handwriting Day. Try to write everything by hand today instead of typing it!

One reason people hesitate to buy electric cars, is that it takes a while to charge the batteries. An Israeli company called StoreDot, has a solution. They developed batteries that can charge up enough energy to drive 100 miles, in only 5 minutes! Instead of filling up with gas at a petrol station, you’d simply quick-charge.

There may be a new winner, for the biggest dinosaur ever found. 98,000,000-year-old fossils found in Argentina, belong to a giant sauropod. They are 10-20% bigger than the bones from Patagotitan mayorum, which was the largest identified dinosaur so far. The long-necked skeleton is still mostly buried in rock, so we’ll have to wait patiently.

How do you avoid COVID-19, when you’re in a car? Virus particles can still escape your mask, so scientists say to open all the windows. If it’s too cold, sit diagonally from the driver, and open the front and rear windows on the opposite sides. The crosswind will help clear the air.

Today is National Blonde Brownie Day. Also known as blondies, they use a recipe similar to brownies, but replace the cocoa with brown sugar. White chocolate, butterscotch chips, or nuts are also commonly added. The treat was invented in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Listen to Blondie while enjoying a blondie today!