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It may seem like older people always play the same music they listened to in their twenties. A recent survey shows that most people stop discovering new music after age 30! It’s not that they dislike new music. Mostly, it’s because of musical nostalgia. It simply brings back good memories!
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Do you have a best friend? Tell them how awesome they are, because today is Best Friends Day! Then you and your friends can celebrate National Name Your Poison Day. Concoct a new drink and give it a fun name, like a pickle-pineapple juice drink could be a Pinnacle! I dare you to try it!
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The New Horizons probe sent NASA some awesome images of Pluto. Now it’s flying through the Kuiper Belt, 3.7 billion miles away. It was in hibernation mode since December to save resources, but the probe is awake again, and preparing to take pictures of Ultima Thule. Ultima will be the farthest planetary encounter ever!
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Footprints made by a small, ancient creature with pairs of legs, were discovered in a fossil preserve in China. They may be the oldest prints ever found, at 550 million years old! The tiny trackways in the Dengying Formation are the first evidence that bilaterian animals, or animals that have bilateral symmetry, existed before the Cambrian Period.
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A Danish clothing company named Organic Basics is making underwear that you’ll never have to replace. In fact, you won’t even need to wash them! They are infused with silver chloride, which kills bacteria. Since bacteria is what causes clothes to smell, your expensive high-tech underwear will never stink!
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Lots of animals clean themselves by licking their fur. Maybe your cat even licks you, with its rough tongue. Now, you can buy a glow-in-the dark LICKI brush to lick your cat back! You hold the big rubber tongue with bristles in your mouth, then groom your kitty. Best of all? No hairballs!
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Hooray, it’s National Chocolate Ice Cream Day! While you enjoy your frozen dairy treat, why not watch a movie on video cassette tape? It’s National VCR Day, and someone you know must still have their video cassette recorder! Remember to please be kind and rewind!
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If you go to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Florida, you’re in for a treat. You can finally see the litter of red wolf puppies born in April! They emerged from their den last week with their mom, Yona. Red wolves are critically endangered, with only around 200 left. These 4 pups are incredibly rare!
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Rick Scolamiero probably loves Marvel Comics more than you. He just set the world record for most Marvel comic book characters tattooed on the body. The Canadian man has 31 marvelous characters, from his first tattoo of Spider-Man in 2011, to all of the Guardians of the Galaxy. That’s one super fan!
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Lots of vegetables get wasted because they don’t look perfect enough to make it to supermarket shelves. Broccoli powder can avoid that! Broccoli is ground and dried to a fine powder, that can then be added to other foods. In Australia, they’ve added it to coffee! That ought to give you an energy boost!
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