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You might think that a place with lots of feral cats, would not have a problem with rats. But a study of wild cats in New York City, found that they rarely hunted rats. They preferred hunting defenseless prey, like birds, lizards, or cockroaches. Their favorite thing to hunt was food scraps!
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A mathematician will win $1,000,000 for solving a math problem! Sir Michael Atliyah solved the Reimann hypothesis, a 160 year-old question about prime numbers. He had to prove that the distribution of prime numbers follows a pattern. The Clay Mathematics Institute has 6 other unsolved “Millennium Prizes”, so you might still become a math millionaire!
Do you know any vegetarians? Today is Hug A Vegetarian Day, so find someone who doesn’t eat meat and hug them. If you are a vegetarian, give hugs to everyone! It’s also Ask A Stupid Question Day. Don’t be embarrassed, just ask! Finally, it’s Good Neighbor Day. Get to know the people around you!
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The Watkins Company celebrated its 150th birthday in a big way. The makers of food flavoring also made a record-breaking 260-layer cake! It used 900 eggs, 480 pounds of sugar, 150 pounds of flour, and 7 pounds of vanilla extract. Weighing more than half a ton, the cake stood over 6 feet tall!
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The Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin, introduced Dr. Lily Parkinson to the public. Lily is a baby red panda, born June 6th. Across the ocean, another red panda cub ventured out for the first time at Flamingo Land, a North Yorkshire zoo in the UK. I wonder if he’ll be a doctor also!
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Everyone hates when their phone or tablet runs out of storage. Scientists are trying their best to fix that problem. They found a way to store data on a single atom! Using cobalt atoms on a layer of phosphorus, they might be able to increase storage by the thousands!
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Kyle Mulinder and Taiyo Masuda were kayaking with friends in New Zealand last weekend. Suddenly, a New Zealand fur seal swam up to Kyle and smacked him in the face with an octopus! Luckily for everyone, Taiyo caught the bizarre moment on camera, and posted it to Instagram, so we can all enjoy it!
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Today is Ancestor Appreciation Day. Did any of your ancestors come from other countries? Make a family tree, label your parents and grandparents, and see how far back you can trace. Then go stomp a soda can for Crush A Can Day. It’s fun, plus it makes it more compact to recycle!
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19 year-old Aldi Novel Adilang, from Indonesia, was rescued after 49 days adrift at sea. He’d been working on the lights on a rompong, which is a floating fishing trap that looks like a small hut, when the ropes holding the raft snapped. He survived by catching and cooking fish, and straining saltwater through his shirt.
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A little boy in Germany has been parking his bike against the same lamppost every day for the last year. This week, he found a reserved sign on the post. Someone had made a parking sticker with a photo of his bike, and reserved the spot just for him!
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