Author: Lisa Mungovan

Look out animals, because it’s Dress Up Your Pet Day! Dress your dog in a new sweater, your cat in a bow tie, and your tarantula in a tiny top hat. Stick paper clothes on your aquarium and photograph your fish at just the right angle. Reward your pets with treats for tolerating you!

David Rush and Jonathan Hannon set their newest world record, slicing apples. David sliced apples in the air, while juggling 3 knives. Jonathan threw the fruit at David, who successfully sliced 21 apples in 30 seconds. Luckily, he also succeeded in slicing zero fingers off. They also set the 1-minute record of 40 sliced apples, last October.

Last year, a family in Michigan lost their cat Olive, when their home was flooded. They were shocked to receive a call from the Humane Society months later, saying they had their cat! A couple with the last name of Flood, had found Olive! Luckily, she was microchipped, so they could find her family.

Do you ever eat a meal with chopsticks? Unless you use them often, you probably use disposable chopsticks. Canadian student Felix Bock, formed ChopValue, a company that makes items like furniture, shelves, and cutting boards, out of used chopsticks. He asked Vancouver restaurants to add chopstick-recycling bins. 4 years later, ChopValue has already recycled 64,000,000 sticks!

Every 8 years in Japan, millipedes create delays on the railways. They swarm onto the tracks, causing trains to come to a screeching halt. Scientists have discovered, that they’re actually periodical millipedes, which have an 8-year life cycle. They stay underground through 7 stages of development. Different broods hatch in different years, in different locations.

Rubber duckies love to float in your bathtub, keeping you company. Today is Rubber Ducky Day, so give your ducks some extra playtime! Let them stick around for Sticker Day. If you want to see unusual stickers, just go to an arts and crafts store and look in the scrapbooking section! Wowza!

Niraj Gadher, who owns the Chai Walla eatery in Bath England, wanted to spread a little laughter, by sending a samosa to space. He attached the potato-filled pastry to a weather balloon, along with a GoPro camera and GPS tracker. The samosa eventually crash-landed in a tree in France, where an animal ate it.

Russian swimmer Yekaterina Nekrasova took a deep breath, and dove into icy Lake Baikal in Siberia, to break a world record. She swam a distance of 280 feet under the ice, before surfacing for air! The rules stated Yekaterina could wear only a swimsuit. It took her about 1 1/2 minutes to accomplish the amazing feat.

The Vienna Zoo in Austria, welcomed a trio of emperor tamarin monkey babies last month. The triplets are now 6 weeks old, and only the size of a grape, but they’re already starting to grow moustaches! Emperor tamarins have a long white moustache, so the tiny tots will soon look like little old men.

After Joe Biden is inaugurated US President on January 20th, his 2 dogs, Major and Champ, move to the White House with him. Major will be the first shelter pup to ever become First Dog! His former home is holding an online Indoguration for him on January 17th, to raise money for the Delaware shelter.