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There are some odd jobs in the world, and Hut-hunter is one of them! BeachHuts.com is a British website, that needs someone to travel the English coastline, reviewing all the beach huts. They’ll supply the hut-hunter with a campervan for the tour, while the hunter has to relax on the beach and photograph huts.

With the crazy temperatures some places have been experiencing, it makes you thankful for weather forecasts. Today is Weatherman’s Day, so thank a meteorologist for letting you know whether to wear snow boots or flip-flops! It’s also Western Monarch Day. Plant some milkweed, to help the beautiful butterflies survive their annual 3000 mile migration!

Today is World Nutella Day. Nutella is a spread made from cocoa and hazelnuts, that tastes yummy on bread. It’s also Chocolate Fondue Day, which is melted chocolate that you can dip everything in. I think I’ll eat strawberries, spread with Nutella and dunked in chocolate! Now what will I have for dessert.

Motorworks Brewing in Florida, places photos of dogs on their beer cans. It helps dogs at the Manatee County animal shelter, find homes. While reading a story about the company, Monica Mathis recognized her dog Hazel, who had gone missing 3 years ago, before she moved 1700 miles away to Minnesota. They’ll soon be reunited!

A couple in North Carolina, has had a little extra excitement lately. James and Maxine Hilliker, will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary this week, and James’s 90th birthday was last week. On his birthday, they collected a jackpot of over $760,000, from winning the lottery! They’ll spend some of it going on an anniversary cruise.

Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze started their company, 4ocean, with a goal of cleaning up the trash in the ocean. They sell bracelets, made from the plastic they pull out of the water. After 3 years, they’ve removed nearly 8,000,000 pounds of garbage from areas around Florida, Haiti, and Bali. Central America is next.

If you spend a lot of time staring at a computer screen, your eyes get tired. Take a quick break every 20 minutes, to look at something far away for 20 seconds. Stretch your eyeball muscles, by looking in every direction without moving your head. You’ll keep your eyes in good shape, by doing eyeball yoga!

Today is Homemade Soup Day and Create a Vacuum Day. It’s easy enough to make some soup; there are thousands of recipes. But how do you create a vacuum, where the pressure inside a space is lower than the pressure outside of it? Try using a suction cup!

The Quality Inn and Suites went up for sale in Denver Colorado, so the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless bought it. The 139-room hotel will reopen under the name Fusion Studios, for people to use instead of homeless shelters. What a great way to create affordable living for people in need!

An animal sanctuary in South Carolina needs help. They are looking for people, who want to play with pigs! The piggies were rescued and will soon be put up for adoption. In the meantime, they want volunteers to hug them, feed them cookies and give them belly scratches.