Starting 25 August 2025: Here's What's Happening!
Welcome to this week9s news, all summarised with amazing AI..
Join us as we explore exciting places, meet historical figures, discover amazing animals, and learn about cool science. Each article is packed with fun facts that will expand your knowledge and spark your curiosity.
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Travel Adventures
🏄 Taghazout is a small town in Morocco famous for surfing. 🌊 Kids and adults can ride gentle waves at Banana Beach or try bigger waves if they're more skilled.
🏖️ The town has beautiful sandy beaches where visitors can relax, play, or explore little shops and cafes nearby.
🏺 You can find colourful rugs, pottery, and even learn about argan oil at the local museum while supporting women artisans.
🍲 Taghazout has tasty Moroccan meals, smoothies, and even vegan treats for everyone to enjoy.
🏞️ Nearby Paradise Valley offers hiking, swimming, and exploring rock pools surrounded by palm trees.
🛶 You can ride boats around Venice and its lagoon to see islands and how people live on the water.
🏝️ Some islands like Torcello and San Francesco del Deserto are quiet and full of history, with churches, old buildings, and friendly locals.
🐦 Marshes and wetlands are home to thousands of birds and other wildlife, making the lagoon a nature paradise.
🥕 Sant'Erasmo is famous for growing special vegetables like purple artichokes and beans, cared for by local farmers.
🎉 People celebrate old festivals, row boats in unique styles, and explore museums that tell stories from long ago.
Fun Fact!
Did you know that Venice is built on 118 small islands connected by over 400 bridges? The city has no roads for cars - people get around by walking or using boats called gondolas!
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History & Culture
👑 Queen of Egypt: Cleopatra was the last ruler of ancient Egypt and one of the few women to be a pharaoh.
🧠 Smart and Powerful: She wasn't just pretty, she was clever, spoke many languages, and used her smarts to protect her kingdom.
❤️ Famous Friendships: Cleopatra became friends (and more) with Julius Caesar and later Mark Antony to keep Egypt safe from Rome.
✨ Grand Style: She loved to show off her power with fancy boats, clothes, and parties to impress leaders.
❓ A Mysterious Ending: Cleopatra died over 2,000 years ago, and historians still debate how she looked and how she died.
🏖️ A long time ago, Black families created special beach towns and resorts where they could relax and have fun safely, away from unfair rules called Jim Crow.
🎉 In places like Idlewild and Oak Bluffs, families swam, rode boats and horses, ate ice cream, and watched famous singers perform.
🎶 These resorts helped Black musicians and artists perform freely and share their culture without restrictions.
🏡 Black people owned homes, businesses, and resorts, showing they could succeed and build their own thriving communities.
❤️ Many of these towns, like Oak Bluffs and Fox Lake, are still loved and visited, keeping their history and spirit alive.
Fun Fact!
Cleopatra wasn't actually Egyptian by birth! She was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which was Greek. She was actually the first ruler in her family line who learned to speak Egyptian, along with eight other languages!
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Nature & Animals
🐝 Just like people need a balanced diet, bees visit different flowers to get the right mix of protein, fat, and sugar.
🔎 Bees don't pick flowers randomly; they look for pollen with the nutrients they need.
🔬 Scientists studied bees for years. Researchers watched 8 types of bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains for 8 years to see which flowers they visited.
🌸 Different flowers have different nutrients. Some flowers have lots of protein, others have more fat or sugar, like a salad versus a steak.
🌱 Plant variety helps bees. Gardens with many kinds of flowers can give all bees the food they need to stay healthy.
🌳 Glow trees like streetlights! Scientists in China are making plants that glow in the dark, like magical streetlamps.
🌈 Many colors! These plants can shine in red, green, yellow, and blue, not just plain green.
🧪Scientists put special phosphor particles in the leaves.
☀️These particles absorb sunlight or LED light and glow for a while. Succulents are the brightest!
🌵 Succulent leaves have tiny channels that spread the glow, making them shine strongly for up to two hours.
🚀Exciting future: Scientists made a wall of 56 glowing plants bright enough to read a book! They are checking safety and hope to make glowing streets someday
Fun Fact!
- A single bee will make only about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime! It takes thousands of bees working together to fill up a jar of honey that we use at home
- There are some naturally glowing organisms in nature called bioluminescent creatures! Fireflies, some jellyfish, and certain deep-sea fish can produce their own light through chemical reactions in their bodies.
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Fun & Entertainment
📦 Time capsules are special boxes that hide things from today to show people in the future what life was like.
👸 Princess Diana helped kids pick items for a time capsule at Great Ormond Street Hospital over 30 years ago.
🎁 Fun items were included, like a Kylie Minogue CD, a solarpowered calculator, a pocket TV, coins, tree seeds, a snowflake hologram, a passport, a newspaper, recycled paper, and a photo of Princess Diana.
🚧 The capsule was dug up early because the hospital was building a new treatment center, even though it was meant to stay buried for hundreds of years.
📜 Time capsules teach us history and let people in the future see what was important to us back then.
🍜 Yummy Fun: Mira, Rumi, and Zoey from Kpop Demon Hunters love eating noodles, just like us!
🎬 Sequel Rumors: People are talking that there might be another Kpop Demon Hunters movie or even a live-action version, but it's not official yet.
🌟 Super Popular: The first movie is Netflix's most watched ever with 236 million views, and its songs were on music charts worldwide!
📖 The director, Maggie Kang, wants to show more about Zoey and Mira's past, and maybe even the Saja Boys' adventures.
🤔 Your Choice: Fans can imagine new adventures4more backstories, exciting battles, or even a sing along version in theaters!
Fun Fact!
The music from "Kpop Demon Hunters" was so popular that it topped real-world music charts, blending animated storytelling with chart topping Kpop rhythms!
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Lifestyle & Sports
💪 Lots of Adults Exercise: About 8 out of 10 adults in the U.S. exercise regularly, which is 247 million people!
🏓 Pickleball is Super Popular: Pickleball, a fun game with paddles and a ball, grew a lot 46% more people played it from 2023 to 2024.
🚶♀️ Walking is the Favorite: Most adults like walking the most, followed by hiking, running on treadmills, lifting weights, and jogging.
🎾 Racquet Sports are Growing Fast: Games with racquets, like tennis and pickleball, are the fastest growing activities right now.
📈 More People, More Fitness: Exercise is becoming a bigger part of everyday life for many adults in the U.S., helping them stay healthy and active.
🏖️ Safe Vacation Spots: A long time ago, Black families created special beach towns and resorts where they could relax and have fun safely, away from unfair rules called Jim Crow.
🎉 Fun Activities: In places like Idlewild and Oak Bluffs, families swam, rode boats and horses, ate ice cream, and watched famous singers perform.
🎶 These resorts helped Black musicians and artists perform freely and share their culture without restrictions. « Community Power:
🏡 Black people owned homes, businesses, and resorts, showing they could succeed and build their own thriving communities.
❤️ Many of these towns, like Oak Bluffs and Fox Lake, are still loved and visited, keeping their history and spirit alive.
Fun Fact!
Pickleball was invented in 1965 by three dads who were trying to entertain their bored children! They named it after one of the creator's dogs, Pickles, who would chase after the ball and run away with it.
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Quiz Time:
Test Your Knowledge! Multiple Choice
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What is Taghazout in Morocco famous for?
- A) Desert safaris
- B) Surfing
- C) Mountain climbing
- D) Camel racing
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Which island in Venice's lagoon is known for growing special vegetables?
- A) Torcello
- B) San Francesco del Deserto
- C) Sant'Erasmo
- D) Murano
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How many languages did Cleopatra speak?
- A) 3
- B) 5
- C) 7
- D) 9
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What were Black resort towns created to provide?
A) Safe vacation spots away from Jim Crow laws
- B) Cheaper alternatives to mainstream resorts
- C) Places only for wealthy families
- D) Military training grounds
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What do bees look for when choosing flowers?
- A) The brightest colors
- B) The strongest smell
- C) The right nutrients they need
- D) The largest petals
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How long can the brightest glowing plants shine?
- A) 30 minutes
- B) 1 hour
- C) 2 hours
- D) 24 hours
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Who helped children pick items for a time capsule at Great Ormond Street Hospital?
- A) Queen Elizabeth II
- B) Princess Diana
- C) Prince Charles
- D) Princess Margaret
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How many adults in the U.S. exercise regularly?
A) About 5 out of 10
- B) About 6 out of 10
- C) About 7 out of 10
- D) About 8 out of 10
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Which sport grew by 46% from 2023 to 2024?
- A) Tennis
- B) Pickleball
- C) Basketball
- D) Swimming
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How many views did the Kpop Demon Hunters movie get on Netflix?
- A) 136 million
- B) 186 million
- C) 236 million
- D) 286 million
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Amazing Fun Facts You Didn't Know!
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Surfing Facts
The longest wave ever surfed lasted for 37 minutes! Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa rode a wave in Portugal that was 24.4 meters (80 feet) high, setting a world record for the tallest wave ever surfed.
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Venice Secrets
Venice has about 350 gondolas in operation today, but in the 1700s, there were more than 10,000! The special black color of gondolas is actually required by law since the 16th century.
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Buzzing Bees
Bees can recognize human faces! Scientists have discovered that bees have excellent memory and can remember and recognize faces of people who take care of them or visit their hives regularly.
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Glowing Nature
There's a beach in the Maldives that glows blue at night because of tiny organisms called phytoplankton. When disturbed by waves or footsteps, they produce a beautiful blue light!
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Cleopatra's Brilliance
Cleopatra invented an early form of the book! She collected thousands of scrolls for the Library of Alexandria and created a new way to bind pages together that was an early version of the books we use today.
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Time Capsule Records
The oldest time capsule in the world was buried in 1795 by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams in Boston. It contained newspapers, coins, and a silver plate and wasn't opened until 2014!
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