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from the cam And then studios this is the

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kids morning news network

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Good morning. It's June 5th, 2024, and I'm Alex in the Camden studio in New York. Get your fries out. It's National ketchup day. The history of ketchup is long. Going back to at least the 1600s. And it may have started out as an Asian fish sauce.

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There's also a version made from mushrooms and

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nuts.

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Oysters,

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anchovies, lots of different versions of ketchup.

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Today, of course, we use ketchup made from tomatoes.

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one cool thing about ketchup. In addition to tasting good, is that it's a non-Newtonian fluid.

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that means that with ketchup, basically, the harder you try to shake it out of the bottle, the less liquid it becomes, so you're more likely to get it to pour.

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If you tap the bottle gently.

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I know people always tell you to tap the neck of the bottle. It actually works. Other non-Newtonian fluids are wall paint and toothpaste. So the next time you want to confuse everyone at the lunch table, just ask them to pass the non-Newtonian fluid.

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We've heard a few stories of kids finding dinosaur fossils sticking out of the ground lately.

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Well, it's happened again. Three boys, two brothers and their cousin, ages seven, nine and ten, were walking in the badlands of North Dakota when they saw a fossilized leg bone in the ground.

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Good catch guys. They took a picture and sent it to a paleontologist. A scientist who studies dinosaurs.

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The paleontologist got permission to dig it up. Not right away, though.

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It took a year, actually.

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At first they thought it was a plant eating, duck billed kind of dinosaur.

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But then they found the tooth. big tooth. A whole jawbone full of them.

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And then they realized this wasn't a duckbill dinosaur. This was a T-Rex,

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but not a huge T-Rex. And not a baby kind of medium size. Something between a child and an adult. So they started calling it Teen Rex. Get it?

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Teen Rex lived about 67 million years ago, and it was true to its name. About 13 to 15 years old.

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Now, at that age, it was about 25ft long and 3,500 pounds. A full grown T-Rex was about 40ft long and 8,000 pounds. So Teen Rex really was just a little whippersnapper.

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Teen Rex is being studied at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and it will go on display there later this month.

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and there's also a movie about it coming out called T-Rex.

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Scientists say that T-Rex will give them a very important look at how T-Rex grew up.

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Now, if it would just clean its room.

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How would you like to go see a rocket launch? And even better, be an on the scene reporter. Well, here is your chance.

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An organization called Space Kidz Global is holding the Space Kids

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Press Squad contest

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Eight kids between the ages of eight and 12 will be invited on a trip to Florida with their parents or guardian.

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They're going to visit

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Blue Origin's Rocket Park facility, where the rockets are made. And then they'll visit the Kennedy Space Center and possibly even see a rocket launch. It's all thanks to SpaceX kids founder and CEO Sharon Hagel, who is actually been to space.

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And we're going to have an interview with her right here on the Kids Morning News Network this Friday.

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She's going to tell us all about the contest and about her trip to space,

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all of a sudden you hear this

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roaring of the engines, and then your seat starts to rumble and the ceiling turns bright red, which, by the way, they tell us in training, that's just a reflection of the engines.

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And then slowly start to lift off and you see the ground slowly dropping away.

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and all of a sudden the earth is gone and the sky turns from blue to light blue to pitch black.

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It's amazing.

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Tune in Friday for my interview with Sharon Hagel

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to enter the Space Kids Press Squad competition.

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You just have to be a kid between the ages of eight and 12, and you have to live in the United States. The contest ends later this month. So don't wait. Go to space kids. Dot global to enter. I'll put a link in the episode description.

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All right, time for the riddle.

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Monday's riddle was. When is a door no longer a door? Answer when it's a jar.

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All right. Today's riddle is I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

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This one's a head scratcher. I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I? Answer on Friday.

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There may have never been any flights to outer space without the Montgolfier brothers. Joseph and Jacques. They were from France. Pioneers in hot air ballooning back in the 1700s.

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The Joseph was interested in aeronautics, studying how things fly

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even when he was a kid. He built his own parachutes and one time he jumped off the family house. Don't do that, by the way.

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the brothers figured out that when air is heated, it rises. This helps create weather. We talked about that last week,

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and they also found that when they collected hot air in bags, they saw that it was strong enough to actually lift the bags.

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They actually kind of thought it was the smoke that did the lifting and not the heat.

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But either way, they made things float.

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Well, on June 4th, in 1783, the brothers first demonstrated this idea in public. They made a balloon 35ft across, out of cloth, lined with paper. Then they burned a pile of straw and wool under it. Remember, they wanted to make a lot of smoke. They also made heat, and the balloon rose up thousands of feet and flew more than a mile before coming down.

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Well, that September, they kind of raised the stakes, so to speak, by launching a bigger balloon with a sheep, a duck and a chicken in a basket underneath. All of them landed safely. Finally, that November, the first balloon with a person on board and not tied to the ground took off and sailed five miles across Paris,

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staying in the air for nearly half an hour.

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It could have gone much further, actually, with a fuel on board.

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But the fire that was heating the air was also starting to burn. The balloon.

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Anyway, that was the first time people actually flew free through the air in a balloon.

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people have been flying ever since.

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Speaking of hot air. The weather news today is heat.

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it is hot in the southwest. Over 100 degrees in the deserts. Drink lots of water and stay in the shade, my friends. Rain will be moving across the eastern part of the country, and it could be heavy at times.

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That's the show. Thank you very much for listening. Be sure to tune in Friday for my interview with Sharon Hagel. If you like this episode, please give it a like on your podcast app and subscribe, share and spread the word about the kids Morning News Network

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grown ups. If you'd like to become a supporter, there is a link in the episode description.

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I'll be back on Friday and I hope you are too. From the Kim in the newsroom. This is Alex signing off.