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At 8:30 pm today, turn off all your lights for Earth Hour. People around the globe will participate at 8:30 in their time zone, creating a wave of darkness sweeping across the Earth. Earth Hour was created to bring attention to each person’s part in protecting our planet. What will you do to help?
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15 year-old Austin Eggleston has been waiting for a heart transplant for years. He told his doctor that when it was finally his turn to get a new heart, he wanted Chewbacca to deliver the good news. Well, Chewie just walked in roaring, and no translation was needed! Austin got his heart transplant and is doing great!
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It’s hard to study animals in the ocean. Fish can swim so much better than humans and it’s hard to breathe! Researchers from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed a robot fish named SoFi that will solve those problems. SoFi is remote-controlled, blends in with other fish, and can spy on animals up to 50 feet deep!
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Do you ever feel better after playing with Legos or painting a picture? Scientists found that working with your hands is good for you! Knitting, woodworking, or even washing dishes gives you a feeling of success and accomplishment that’s beneficial to your brain. Learning to knit a hat can also keep your brain warm!
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When trees are turned into paper, they have to be ground down to make nanocellulose fibers. Animals like elephants and cows that eat grass make nanocellulose by digesting plants. So naturally, scientists are figuring out how to make paper from animal poop! I wonder if they’ll make toilet paper and call it toilet pooper.
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Woof woof! Get ready for cuteness because it’s National Puppy Day! Hopefully all you people with puppies will take them for walks to share them with all the poor puppy-less people who need to pet an adorable wiggly puppy! It’s also National Chip And Dip Day! What’s your favorite combination?
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To celebrate the Spring Festival, Nauryz, today in Almaty Kazakhstan, quilters are beginning what they hope will become the world’s largest patchwork quilt. The 25,500 square meter quilt will represent the diverse nature and people of Kazakhstan. The city is also serving a big cup of tea to 20,000 people. The cup holds 2000 liters!
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A strange creature that washed ashore on a Georgia beach has mystified scientists. It resembles the fabled Altamaha-ha, a Loch Ness Monster-like animal said to live in a Georgia river. It might be an unidentified species from an unexplored part of the ocean, or maybe a decaying decapitated shark. It’s still a mystery!
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Cities are full of pollution and don’t have many trees, but Green City Solutions created a bench that can absorb as much pollution as 275 trees! CityTree benches hold 1682 pots of moss, have their own watering and solar monitoring systems, and even have WiFi. So far, They are in London, Berlin, Paris, Oslo and Amsterdam.
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Derek Klingenberg is a celebrity farmer YouTuber. Millions of people have watched him serenade his cows with his trombone or sing a farm version of “What Does the Fox Say?”. He also makes cow space art! Derek herded his cows into position, spelling out a giant “Hi!” which was photographed by satellite imagery!
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