Most of us throw away orange peels in the trash. A team of ecologist had another idea. Collect them. Sixteen years ago, a local orange juice manufacturer was asked to dump 1000 truckloads of pulp and peels over barren land in a section of a Costa Rican National Park Forest. A law suit was filed saying that the dumping of the 13,000 tons orange pump/peels was polluting the park and the project ceased and was forgotten. Recently,researchers returned to find an amazing sight. The barren land, which had been covered in orange peels and pulp, was now once again a lush tropical forest with tall vines and vegetation. Even wildlife had return including birds and reptiles. It is thought that the nutrient-rich organic waste was the main reason for such a change in the soil.

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Do you like to ride a bicycle? Have you ever gone on a bike trip? Mark Beaumont, from Scotland, went on an amazing bike journey. He biked around the world and he did it in less than 80 days. Beaumont's world record bike trip took 79 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes and covered a whopping 18,032 miles.(completed 9/18) Back in 2008, Beaumont traveled the world in 194 days but other cyclists have since broken his record. The current record before this week was 123 days. It was necessary for Beaumont to travel approximately 240 miles each on his bicycle. That left only about five hours each night for a snooze and to get needed rest. Otherwise, he pedaled his bicycle for over 16 hours each day! He began his record bike trip in Paris, France,traveled across Europe, through Russia and to Mongolia and China. He then took an airplane to Australia and biked across the continent. He went over to New Zealand and then took another airplane across the Pacific Ocean. He arrive in Anchorage, Alaska and pedaled through Canada. Another plane ride took Beaumont to Portugal where he continued biking on through Spain and France where he ended once again in Paris, France. Along the journey, biking through 16 countries, Beaumont suffered from lots of calluses. He broke a filling when he had a crash in Russia and suffered sub-zero temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere where it is winter. He also came down with a bad cold during the trip but nothing stopped Beaumont from achieving his goal. Like the character, Phileas Fogg, from the Jules Verne book, Around the World in 80 Days, Beaumont said, "I’ll always be the first who did it(in under 80 days). No one remembers who was second up Everest."

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Two very rare giraffes were captured on video. They are completely white. The mother and baby calf were spotted by rangers in the country of Kenya, in the Ishaqbini Hirola Conservacy. Not albino, the giraffe have a condition called leucism,which means they have no pigment in their skin cells. This causes the white skin. It is only the third time, such white giraffes have every been spotted.

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There is milk chocolate, dark chocolate and even white chocolate. Now, Swiss scientists have come up with another type of chocolate, Ruby.Made from ruby cocoa beans found in the Ivory Coast, Brazil and Ecuador, the chocolate is actually pink without any additives and should be on the market in the next several months. As to the taste, those that have sampled ruby chocolate say it has a berry flavor. Would you try this new chocolate?

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