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You could say today is Wednesday, or you could say today is Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day, which is way more fun to say! It’s much more fun than opening hard sealed plastic, twisty plastic ties, and toys screwed into boxes. Sometimes it’s really hard work to get to the fun stuff inside!
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Who’re the toughest dudes in the ocean? Sharks, with their 300 teeth? Electric eels, with their shocking touch? Jellyfish, with their venomous tentacles? How about the stonefish: they have switchblade cheekbones! Stonefish have lachrymal sabers, which are bones that deploy horizontally under the eyes, and fold back in after they’ve warned you to back off!
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Are you hot and sweaty? Let’s think back to the polar vortex, when people had fun freezing things in the extremely cold temperatures, like spaghetti frozen with a fork in mid-air, long hair frozen straight out, and a bunch of frozen blue jeans, just standing around in the snow! Do you feel cooler now?
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Controlled burns are fires set for farming or forest management purposes, but there’s no such thing in Australia. That’s because firehawk raptors pick up burning sticks and spread the fire to other areas! For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have witnessed the fire-wielding birds of prey hunt animals trying to escape the fires.
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August is Inventors Month! Who is your favorite inventor? Maybe you’re thankful Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, or that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Simple things like safety pins or paper clips also needed to be invented, and made somebody rich! Try to come up with your own invention this month!
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Grab some vanilla ice cream and some root beer. Today is Root Beer Float Day! It was called a black cow when it was first invented in 1893. Drink it while giving your toes some freedom in the sand, grass or water. It’s National Wiggle Your Toes Day!
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A Perkins restaurant had been robbed, but never noticed. The thief stole a half-full bottle of ketchup. He was in a car accident later that day, and had a string of bad luck, so he sent a letter of apology, along with 2 new bottles of ketchup. He’s never going to steal again!
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The Sierra Energy Company, is using a new method to get rid of trash. Instead of going to a landfill, trash is vaporized at 4000° Fahrenheit, in an oxygen-injected blast furnace. It produces clean energy, that can be reused to keep the furnace heated up. Any excess fuel is sold. It’s high-tech trash!
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A 10-year-old boy in Guangdong China, found an amazing rock near the Dong River. Zhang Yangzhe had been looking for a stone to use for cracking open walnuts, but found a 66,000,000-year-old dinosaur egg instead! Archaeologists dug deeper, and found a whole nest from the late Cretaceous period! That was eggs-citing!
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A 7-year-old boy in India, had a swollen jaw that ached. Doctors discovered he had too many teeth below his gum-line. In fact, he had 526 miniature teeth crammed in there! Surgeons took them out, and the boy has a decision to make: leave teeth for the tooth-fairy all at once, or one per night!
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