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Studies show that playing card games, keeps your mind sharp. A deck of cards gives you loads of games in a tiny package! Today is Play More Cards Day. Ask your parents to play their favorite card games with you, or play solitaire. I bet your grandparents can teach you to play 52-Card-Pickup!

Crunch-crunch-crunch. Today is National Tortilla Chip Day! In Los Angeles in the 19 40’s, Rebecca Webb Carranza noticed all the misshapen tortillas that were rejected at the El Zarape Tortilla Factory. She cut them into triangles and fried them, then sold them for 10 cents a bag. Corn + oil + water + salt = delicious!

A man in California was concerned, with the number of bees coming out of a hole in his shed. He called Bee Nice Wildlife Management to check it out, and discovered a 70-pound beehive under the shed! The hive was home to over 100,000 bees! They were able to safely relocate the entire colony.

Scientists have figured out a new way to explore the ocean. They created a bionic jellyfish! By placing a microelectronic implant in a moon jellyfish, they can enhance its swimming abilities, and direct where it travels. They hope studying the implanted jellyfish, will help them understand how to make new underwater vehicles.

GoFundMe is a website, where strangers can donate money to good causes. Dr Kwane Stewart, is the official GoFundMe Hero for February. He’s a veterinarian who treats homeless people’s pets in California. Dr Stewart has helped over 400 animals over the last 9 years for free, but sometimes he raises money when homeless pets need surgery.

Today is Banana Bread Day. It started out as a way to use up the mushy bananas that nobody wanted to eat, but it’s delicious! It’s also Dog Biscuit Day, so give your poochie a treat. Find a good recipe, and bake him a batch of biscuits so good, that you’d eat them too!

There’s more to the sport of curling, than sliding a big rock down the ice. Sweepers heat up the pebbled ice, causing it to melt and reduce friction, but the rotation, speed and pressure are equally important. Today is Curling is Cool Day! It’s also Play Tennis Day, if you want something less complicated!

Yesterday in Hamburg Germany, around 60,000 people joined teen activist Greta Thunberg, to march for the planet. Greta started Fridays for Future school strikes in Sweden on her own, but the world is slowly joining her, in the fight against climate change. What steps are you taking, to help the Earth?

The shores of Lake Michigan, are showing off some great ice formations this winter. Last week, thousands of ice balls, in sizes from baseball to yoga ball, rolled onto beaches at Holland Park. This week, there were ice volcanoes! Waves build up under an icy surface, and spew slush into the air when they find an opening.

If you love McDonald’s hamburgers, but you’re too full to eat another bite, here’s a solution. Light some hamburger-scented candles. McDonald’s has created candles in 6 unusual scents. You can mix-and-match bun, ketchup, pickle, cheese, onion, and beef aromas, to smell a calorie-free meal. I think I’ll stick with vanilla.