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Animals sometimes need human help, in unusual situations. A horse’s hoof got caught, in a road barrier in Britain. In California, a puppy got her head trapped in a wheel rim, while a cat in North Carolina had its head stuck in a pasta can. They were all rescued by wonderful firefighters!

NASA’s Juno space probe, has been sending back some amazing images of Jupiter. A massive storm the size of Texas, is swirling around the planet’s South Pole. It joins 5 other cyclones, forming a hexagon around one central cyclone. The hexagonal area of storms is bigger than the Earth!

Nikki Spil and Sjoerd Laarhoven were tired of seeing polluted water on their favorite Dutch beach. They decided to plant seaweed crops, to help clean the water. The Sea Farm Ijmond’s seaweed harvest, is then used to create a material used in 3D-printers. After cleaning the water, seaweed replaces plastic! That’s one useful plant!

What are you eating for breakfast? Cover it in chocolate! Are you having a peanut butter sandwich for lunch? Dip it in chocolate! How about spaghetti for dinner, with chocolate syrup for sauce! Today is Chocolate Covered Anything Day, so it’s your chance to see if chocolate covered brussel sprouts are gross, or delicious!

A truck spilled its contents all over the road last week in Florida. Although the accident happened in Orange County, the truck was carrying grapefruits. The highway was covered with the big juicy fruit! Driving over grapefruits with your car, is not a very efficient way to get a glass of juice!

Scientists believe they’ve found the oldest figure paintings, in a cave in Indonesia. Some of the art shows hunters and wild buffalo. The paintings are 44,000 years old! Unfortunately, the wall paintings are quickly crumbling away, possibly because of higher temperatures in the cave. If there are other paintings, they’ll need to find them fast!

5-year-old Katelyn Hardee wants to help other kids. She set up a hot cocoa-and-cookies stand, to raise money to pay for their school meals! She was able to pay off the lunch debt of 123 kids in her school district in San Diego California. Her school recognized Katelyn’s generosity with an award.

Do you know anyone looking for a job, who loves coffee? Gevalia Kaffe is hiring someone, to live in a castle in Scotland for a week, and drink coffee! The Coffee Queen will get paid $5000, as well as receive $2000 spending money, and free spa treatments. Submit an essay at GevaliaCoffeeQueen.com.

Have you ever tried to get a bunch of cats to obey you? They tend to ignore you, do what they want, and make a mess. So when someone’s having a hard time getting a group of people to do something, they say, “it’s like herding cats.” Happy Cat Herders Day!

Will you be traveling by airplane for the holidays? Don’t forget to check the list, for items you’re not allowed to bring onboard. An airport in Lithuania has a festive reminder for passengers, because they created a tree out of confiscated items! The scissors, knives, liquids, and lighters, make beautiful decorations.