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If you see someone snoozing in public today, they may just be celebrating National Public Sleeping Day! It’s also Tooth Fairy Day. But I doubt the Tooth Fairy will come out in public, so if you lose a tooth today, don’t try to take a nap to get an early visit!

Plastic bags, bottles, and straws are just a few of the plastics polluting the Earth. Take a step to help clean it up, by not using those things in the first place! Today is Skip The Straw Day. If you can’t handle strawless drinking, get a reusable metal or bamboo straw to use instead!

How did you celebrate Pancake Day on Tuesday?  A British sports arena marked the day, by breaking a Guinness World Record! The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium assembled a team of chefs, to cook 1135 pancakes, and place them into a 429.3-foot-long line. Afterwards, the longest line of pancakes was distributed by the Felix Project charity.

Have you ever eaten so much, you couldn’t move? It happens to birds too! Concerned people called animal rescuers in Tennessee, when they came across a bald eagle that seemed injured. The wildlife officers determined the eagle wasn’t hurt. It had just eaten a huge meal, and couldn’t fly until it digested its food!

A company called Adriano Di Marti, has created a new way to make material, using cactus leaves. Desserto is a cloth, which feels like leather. Cactus needs very little water to grow, so it could be a better way to make leather-like fabric, instead of vinyl and other plastic-based materials.

It’s International Polar Bear Day! Polar bears have black skin and hollow transparent hairs that scatter light, making their fur look white! They can grow 9 feet tall and have paws one foot wide. Polar bears live in Arctic sea ice regions, so climate change and melting ice, has caused them to become endangered.

When do toast, strawberries, and chili go together? When it’s Strawberry Day, Toast Day, and Chili Day, on the same day! Of course it’s also Pokemon Day, and Digital Learning Day, so maybe Pikachu can help you find some educational computer games, while you eat your strawberry chili on toast. Yum-yum-yummy!

At the Odessa Police Department, in Texas, a dog reported himself missing. The friendly dog came up to the counter, and showed off his collar with no ID tag. He played ball with employees while waiting for animal control, but took off before they arrived. It turns out, Chico lived nearby, and went home!

Look outside any train station in the Netherlands, and you’ll see hundreds of bicycles. Look inside, and you might see Dutch people charging their phones, by playing on swings! A Play-for-Power swingset installed in the Utrecht station is so popular, that people often take a later train to leave time for swinging!

February is Black History Month, so it’s great timing for the release of a new line of Barbie dolls. The Mattel company collaborated, with costume designer Shiona Turini, to make 10 new dolls. They have different shades of dark skin tones, African hairstyles, and a variety of body types, not to mention fabulous clothes!