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When ants set out looking for food, they leave a scent trail so that they can find their way back to the nest, as well as lead others to the food source. Scientists have discovered the scent might not be produced by the ants, but by bacteria living in their abdomen! Cool!
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Today I just feel like relaxing with all my pets, on a submarine, while eating cheese fondue, and listening to barbershop quartets, on 8-track tapes. It’s a good thing it’s National Submarine, Cheese Fondue, Barbershop Quartet, Pet, and Eight Track Tape Day! Sing a song with your pets in four-part harmony!
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Tazio Gavioli’s cat, Kali, lost a paw after a car accident. Inspired by Kali, the Italian man started doing strength training with one arm. He’s set one-armed climbing and explosive pull up records; the latest confirmed world record was for most consecutive pinky pull ups. He did 23 pull ups in a row using only his pinky fingers!
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When a large meteor hits the Earth’s crust, the impact melts the rock, forming tiny glass spheres called tektites. The impact from a meteor that hit the Earth 800,000 years ago scattered tektites over a 6800 mile surface, but scientists are still hunting for where it hit. Microtektites the width of a hair may lead them to the impact crater!
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Yesterday’s “Goat Watch” had a happy ending. Two goats had walked onto an 8-inch ledge under a highway bridge, and were unable to turn around when they reached an obstacle. They’d already been stuck over the Pennsylvania Turnpike for 18 hours when engineers, bridge workers, and a crane came to the rescue and saved the adventurous goats!
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A program called Cat Pawsitive is holding a National High-Five Day Shelter Contest. You enter by uploading a photo or video of your cat giving you a high-five! The prize will be pet food and $5000 for your local animal shelter. For contest details or tips on how to train your cat, visit felinehighfive.com.
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Today is National Siblings Day, a good time to thank your brothers and sisters for being born! It’s also International Safety Pin Day. In 1849, Walter Hunt sold the rights to his amazing little invention, the safety pin, to the W R Grace Company for only $400! Speaking of amazing things, Grace, and siblings being born, Happy Birthday Grace!
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An ice carousel is a round sheet of ice that can spin around inside a stationary sheet of ice, and the world’s largest ice carousel was just created in Long Lake Maine! The circular sheet of ice took over a month to cut, is 427 feet across, 32 inches thick, and weighs 22,000,000 pounds! But it doesn’t have horses.
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Starting this month, you can see a triangle made from Jupiter and 2 other stars, which won’t happen again until the year 20 30. Jupiter’s Triangle will last until September, giving you time to learn about astronomy in order to locate it! Jupiter, Arcturus and Spica will form an isosceles triangle, gradually changing shape each night.
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Archaeologists in Spain just found some old tools- 90,000 years old! The wooden tools were used for digging by Neanderthals in the Middle Paleolithic period. Wood usually decomposes, but the tools were preserved in waterlogged sediments on the Iberian Peninsula. The charred and worn tips suggest the tools were used for digging roots, clams, and fire pits.
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