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There’s an ice cream shop in North Carolina that has an adorable mascot: Putter, the squirrel who loves ice cream cones! Scott and Pam Martin, owners of Fantasy Isle Ice Cream and Mini Golf, make tiny vanilla cones twice a day for Putter. Putt-Putt also likes to play with golf balls. Customers love him!
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Loggerhead sea turtles have started laying eggs on beaches in Florida and North Carolina. When the babies hatch, they will swim 8000 miles by themselves, in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. They’ll return as adults to the beach where they hatched, or at least one with a similar magnetic field!
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An idea that started in Cape Town South Africa has spread to France, Canada, and North Carolina in the United States. People are setting up Street Stores for the homeless. Anyone can donate clothing, shoes or even jewelry by hanging it in a designated area where people in need can shop for free. What a great idea!
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Alligators brumate, which is like hibernation. Normally they spend cold days at the bottom of a swamp, coming up once a day for air. The recent unusually cold weather was tough on alligators in North Carolina. They left their snouts sticking out while the swamp froze around them! Happily, they’re now thawed out.
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