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A farmer in China, always saves any strange rocks found in his field. When scientists looked at his collection, they found a fossilized egg among the treasures. The egg had been laid by a giant prehistoric turtle, over 66,000,000 years ago. Using micro-computed tomography, they could see the fossilized turtle embryo inside.
Electric vehicles are growing more popular, and a German company has figured out a way, to make them more efficient. They developed a wireless charging road. Electrified wire coils, are buried in the concrete. They create a magnetic field on the road’s surface, so electric cars get recharged as they drive along.
When you outgrow your clothes, don’t just throw them in the trash. You can sell them, donate them to charity, or give them to younger friends and family. By shopping for secondhand clothes, you save money, and help the Earth by recycling. Give vintage clothes a chance, for Secondhand Wardrobe Day! You’ll look fabulous!
Today is Banana Split Day, so here’s what you need to do. Scoop 3 flavors of ice cream into your bowl, slice a banana lengthwise and put half on each side, then add chocolate, pineapple, and strawberry sauces, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry. Now eat it all up! The banana makes it healthy!
The Albuquerque International Balloon Festival in New Mexico, broke a world record, by launching 524 balloons at the same time. The event took place in 20 19, but they only realized their accomplishment recently. When the next festival happens in October, maybe they’ll be paying better attention!
A solar-powered robot, is helping to clean up the ocean, by removing trash from beaches. The sand-sifting BeBot can clean 33,000 square feet of shoreline every hour. It even collects tiny pieces of plastic that are hard to clean by hand, but won’t crush any plants or turtle eggs buried in the sand.
A farmer in Sri Lanka, was digging a well with some workmen, when they came to a big rock. They removed the boulder, and found it was actually hundreds of precious gems. It contained a cluster of star sapphires, worth $140,000,000. The 2.5 million-carat treasure, is called the Serendipity Sapphire.
On Pluto Demoted Day, we remember when Pluto was officially downgraded in 2006. Its status was changed to dwarf planet. Now the 8 planets in our Solar System are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, while the 5 known dwarf planets are Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris. We still love you Pluto!
Today is Vesuvius Day. Mount Vesuvius is the volcano in Italy, that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD. Create your own volcano and make it erupt, while listening to unusual music for International Strange Music Day! You can make music from anything. Today is also Waffle Day. What’s your favorite flavor, blueberry or chocolate chip?
The Cramlington and District Red Squirrel Group, are nuts about squirrels. One street in their English city was particularly dangerous for squirrels, so the group raised money, to build a rope bridge across the road! Now the squirrels can cross safely to a nature reserve, and gather loads of hazelnuts without dodging automobiles.