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Lots of important experiments take place at the International Space Station. One that will happen soon involves baking cookies! The Zero G Kitchen will use Nanoracks in their space oven, that will allow cookies to expand in all directions. Since gravity won’t be pulling them down on a tray, they’ll probably be spherical blobs!

A black material 10 times blacker than the blackest black, was created because of an artist at MIT. Diemut Strebe wanted to cover a 16-carat diamond, with carbon nanotubes. Diamonds and carbon are made from the same molecules, but arranged differently. The carbon-nanotube-coated gemstone absorbs all light, becoming a black void, even under a microscope!

Today is Family Day. Have a family game night, or at least gather everyone together for one meal! It’s also Dogs In Politics Day, originally called Checkers Day, after President Nixon’s dog. U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, Bush Junior, and Obama also had dogs in their First Families!

Pumpkin spice everything has been popping up for a few weeks now, but today is the official first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. The autumnal equinox occurs when the sun is directly in line with the Earth’s equator. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the vernal equinox: the first day of spring!

Dryer Vent Wizard is a company in Michigan, that cleans lint out of clothes dryers. They decided to have a little fun, and make a gigantic ball of lint. All the fluff accumulated into a 690-pound lint-ball, easily breaking the world record. It was then lit on fire, and extinguished by the fire department.

Josh Thompson had to go to a meeting, where he knew he was going to get fired. In New Zealand, you can bring along a support person or animal, so Josh brought a support clown! Joe the Clown pretended to cry so Josh wouldn’t have to, and made balloon animals to cheer him up!

It’s Hobbit Day, in honor of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins’s birthday. Hobbits eat breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper, so there’s plenty of time to celebrate White Chocolate Day and Ice Cream Cone Day.  Then draw some tiny sketches for your favorite 100-year-old, since it’s Doodle Day, and Centenarian Day!

Today is World Car Free Day. You could just stay home, but where’s the challenge in that? Instead, try to walk, bike, or use public transportation for your daily adventures. Then make a pact, to try to use cars less. It’s better for the planet, and the exercise will keep you healthy!

Today is World Rhino Day, and Elephant Appreciation Day. Both animals are endangered. Poachers hunt rhinoceroses for their horns, and elephants for their tusks. Their habitats are also disappearing. The white rhino is the largest rhino species, averaging about 5000 pounds and 6 feet tall, while the largest African elephant was 13 feet tall and 24,000 pounds!

The plan was for 2,000,000 people to storm Area 51, a U.S. military base where some people think the government is hiding aliens from outer space. In reality, 3000 people showed up in Nevada yesterday for music festivals, 40 people gathered near the base, and one person was seen doing the Naruto run! No aliens were spotted.