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A Texas zoo was surprised last month by a new baby sloth! The two-toed sloth’s thick fur and sedentary lifestyle make a pregnancy difficult to detect. Sloths sleep 18 hours a day! Animal World and Snake Farm Zoo is having a naming contest on Facebook to name Sylvia and Sid’s baby.
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Scallops are more than just dinner. These amazing mollusks have up to 200 eyes that each contain millions of flat and perfectly square guanine crystals. The crystals layer to create a mirrored surface that reflects onto two retinas. Scientists are puzzled that a bivalve would have such a complex visual system.
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The verdict is in. Halszkaraptor escuilliei is a very weird dinosaur, but it is real. The Halszkaraptor was a velociraptor-like theropod, but it had a long neck, duck-billed snout, flipper-like clawed limbs, and was a strong swimmer. The fossilized skeleton found in Mongolia was so unusual that paleontologists first thought it was fake.
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Whoever smelt it dealt it! Whoever denied it supplied it! Does your brother pass a lot of gas? Or maybe it’s you who suffers from extreme flatulence. Charcoal underwear comes to the rescue! Carbon is a natural odor neutralizer, so companies are creating underwear that uses charcoal to trap smells. Thank goodness!
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A new Pygmy hippo was born in a Florida zoo! The baby met the public to the song “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” Zsa Zsa gave birth to the 9 pound baby, who will be named once they know if it’s a boy or girl. A regular hippo weighs 50 to 110 pounds at birth.
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Today is National Cotton Candy Day! Spun sugar has been around since the 15th century. It’s also known as fairy floss or candy floss. Maybe that’s because confectioner John Wharton and dentist William Morrison invented the first cotton candy machine. Don’t floss your teeth with cotton candy or you’ll need to see a dentist!
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A giant spinning water slide made its debut at the IAAPA, an amusement park expo in Florida. The SlideWheel is like a Ferris wheel and a water slide in one and the ride lasts for two minutes. The makers of the ride got the idea from a 6 year-old boy in Switzerland!
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A rainbow in Taiwan claimed a new world record! The rainbow was observed in Taipei for 8 hours and 58 minutes. The previous record for longest rainbow was six hours. Rainbows are made when sunlight shines through raindrops. The raindrop becomes a tiny prism, which splits the white light into colors.
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Relativity Space has developed Stargate, the largest 3D printer in the world that uses metal. The company will use it to print launch vehicles. Yes, they will 3D print rockets! The printed rockets will look different because they’ll need fewer parts. Their ultimate goal is to print rockets on Mars.
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Sophia is a robot that made headlines last month when she was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. Now she is advocating for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, where women have many restrictions, as well as human rights all over the world. I’m sure she will be talking about robot rights soon!
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