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You know what’s great, when you’re running late? Oatmeal muffins! It’s Oatmeal Muffin Day, so bake your breakfast into a tasty and convenient package. Add fruit, like bananas, raisins, or blueberries, if you want to make it even tastier. You could also add cinnamon, nuts, chocolate chips, or maybe even salsa!

Today is Hard Candy Day! Most hard candy is made by boiling sugar syrup, adding flavorings, then pouring it into molds to cool and harden. The first lemon and peppermint candies were prescribed for stomach ailments. It’s also Look For An Evergreen Day. Evergreen plants like pine trees, holly, and bamboo, stay green all year!

In honor of National Syrup Day, Denny’s restaurants released limited-edition shoes, called Sticky Kicks. The yellow and red high-top sneakers have a Denny’s logo on the heel, and see-thru panels filled with syrup. The sneakers, available for $195 in their DinerDrip.com merchandise shop, sold out in one minute.

Australia’s Taronga Zoo, has been credited with saving multiple animal species from extinction. They plan to rewild 3,050 acres of farmland, with a box-gum tree forest, to connect existing wildlife habitats. The zoo will then release endangered platypuses, koalas, spotted quolls, and regent honeyeater birds, to help their populations grow again.

Snowflakes form in the clouds, when water vapor condenses into ice crystals, around a particle of dust. No 2 snowflakes are alike! Today is Flake Appreciation Day, so take a close look at some flakes if you’re lucky enough to have snow. If not, you can make your own out of paper.

Today is Bake Cookies Day! I’ll tell you my favorite recipe, for peanut butter cookies. Mix one cup of sugar, and one cup of peanut butter, with one egg. Press balls of dough with a fork, to make a criss-cross pattern. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, for 10 minutes! Don’t forget to save some for me!

Today is Wear A Plunger On Your Head Day, first celebrated by Vern Halsey, and his pet Komodo dragon, Felix. A plunger with a big rubber suction cup works best, especially if you’re bald! I suggest you buy a new one, since they’re cheap at Dollar Tree. Used ones would be gross.

Today is Wright Brothers Day. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a mechanically propelled airplane, near Kitty Hawk North Carolina, in 1903. That flight only lasted 12 seconds, and went 120 feet. The wingspan of a 747 is longer than that! It’s also Maple Syrup Day. Boiled tree sap sure does taste delicious!

Watch where you stand during the holiday season, because there’s a tradition called kissing under the mistletoe. The plant was essential to a recent event in Washington DC, where 1,435 couples gathered to set a world record, for most couples kissing under a giant 600-pound ball of mistletoe.

An alligator in Florida may have needed a quick snack, when it wandered up to a 7-Eleven store, but it didn’t get the chance to make any purchases. Sheriff’s deputies safely relocated the 10-foot-long gator, to a more suitable habitat. Too bad swamps don’t serve Slurpees!