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What would you like to do today? Travel to a new place? Fill a cooler with food for a picnic? Do both, for Road Trip Day and Cooler Day! Don’t forget, Friday is also Don’t Fry Day. Make sure you use sunblock if you spend time in the sun, so you don’t fry!

Today is Buy A Musical Instrument Day! Maybe you’ve been renting an instrument and you’re ready to own your own. Or maybe it would be fun to play the nose flute or the kazoo! It’s also World Goth Day. Celebrate goth music, fashion and art. Listen to Bauhaus, wear black, and play goth nose flute music!

Do you need your own space during quarantine? IKEA wants to help. The Swedish furniture company has published directions, for building blanket forts. There are 6 different designs, for building a cave, wigwam, castle, house, fortress, or campingtent. Take over the living room, and make a whole village! I hope you have lots of blankets.

From now until mid-June, you may be able to see a comet while you’re stargazing. The green-tinged Comet SWAN has a long tail, and ejects water vapor as it whizzes towards the sun. Although you might not spot it unless you know exactly where to look, looking at stars is always time well-spent.

Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, will soon be filled with the sound of cicadas. The brood 9 cicadas spent the last 17 years underground as nymphs. They will crawl out, shed their skins, and sing loudly to find a mate, starting the next 17-year cycle. They are large, harmless and amazing, so don’t freak out!

Schoolteacher Ruari O Leochain, decided to start a new hobby, while the schools in Ireland were closed. He ordered a bunch of LEGO bricks, and built a beehive! It has working doors, and a rooftop patio, in case the bees want to hang out and party. The colorful hive is now home to 30,000 bees.

Today is Strawberries And Cream Day. Whip your own cream to cover sweet strawberries, and enjoy! Also, did you get the memo? It’s Memo Day! Short for memorandum, a memo is a note to give a group of people information. It’s also Notebook Day. What will you write in your notebook?

David Rush, who holds well over 100 Guinness World Records, broke another record. This time, it was for speed juggling. He stood on a balance board juggling 3 balls, and made 485 catches in one minute. That’s over 8 catches per second! He used a cascade pattern, in case you were thinking of trying to beat his record.

A sea lion in California, got a little lost while looking for food. He was spotted next to the I5, a busy Interstate highway. Police kept an eye on the sea lion, nicknamed Gilligan, until he was rescued by the Marine Mammal Center. They’ll make sure he’s ok, then release him into the ocean.

Have you created any crazy chocolate chip cookie recipes, while you’ve been staying at home? Nestle is having a contest, for the most original way to use their Toll House Morsels. The winner will receive a year’s supply of chocolate chips. Enter on the Nestle Toll House Instagram page, and post your unusual recipe!