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I got so excited talking about things on sticks that I forgot to tell you it’s Manatee Appreciation Day! Manatees, also known as sea cows, are slow-moving mammals about 10 feet long. They live in warm shallow waters and graze on underwater vegetation. Baby manatees drink milk from their mom’s armpit!
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Convincing your parents to get a puppy takes persistence. An 8 year-old Maryland girl launched a 3-month campaign and analyzed her dad’s habits. She created her own headline on his morning newspaper begging for a puppy, which was shared on Twitter, retweeted by Harry Potter author JK Rowling, and they now have a puppy named JK Growling!
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Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computer science at a middle school in Ghana, but the school doesn’t have any computers. He has been drawing diagrams of computer programs on the chalkboard for 6 years! After a photo of his classroom went viral on Facebook, Microsoft is giving the school an entire computer lab!
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has plans to create transportation tunnels under California and the East Coast of the United States. He has raised money by selling hats, flamethrowers, and now interlocking rocks! Giant Lego-like bricks made from the rock dug out of the tunnels will be sold in kits, the first one being Ancient Egypt.
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If you are in London today and see a bunch of men on top of buildings, don’t worry. American artists Mark Jenkins and Sandra Fernandez made the sculptures! Mark’s sculptures made out of packaging tape look like real people, but they might be embedded in a wall or hanging out on a lamppost. Maybe you’ll spot one someday!
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Josephs, Joeys, Josephines, get ready: today is National Joe Day. Joe is also a nickname for coffee. It’s also Quirky Country Music Song Title Day. “My T-Rex Ran Away With All My Legos and All I’ve Got to Drink is This Cup of Old Joe” would be a great song title. Now YOU make one up!
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Last week, a stray dog in Brazil wandered into a bookstore, grabbed a book, and left. The book he shoplifted was appropriately named “The Days of Abandonment”! The smart doggie was caught on video and seen by local animal rescuers. They took in the abandoned dog, cleaned and fed him, and he’ll soon be adopted!
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9 year-old Avery Baker wanted to raise chickens, but her family’s property in Michigan was too small to meet the regulations for raising livestock. Avery wrote a letter to Clay Township’s Supervisor asking him to allow a smaller number of chickens on less property. A year later, the rules are changing thanks to Avery! Bok-bawk!
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At the Spirit of Texas Festival last Saturday, there was an ice cream sundae big enough for everyone! The mile-long ice cream sundae broke the world record and used 500 gallons of ice cream, 2000 cans of whipped cream, 300 gallons of chocolate and strawberry sauce, 25 pounds of sprinkles and 20,000 cherries! Sounds dee-eee-licious!
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Across Eastern Europe, it looks like Mars. In Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Russia, the snow is orange! It turns out there was a big sandstorm in the Sahara Desert. Fine particles of orange sand were lifted into the atmosphere, traveled over 2000 miles, and came back down mixed with snow!
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