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Here’s a quick recap of the top five funny and uplifting stories you may have missed this week.
This first story is truly innovative!
Fish tales pub in Ocean City, Maryland bought “bumper tables” for customers to use while in the restaurant.
The tables are custom-made inner tubes with wheels, guaranteed to keep people 6 feet apart.
Customers stand in the middle of the inner tube and are able to walk around and bounce ideas off each other while about maintaining a safe distance from others.
Get it? Bumper cars, “bounce” ideas off each other?
Alrighty then.
Crayola has launched a new product aimed at cultivating a more inclusive world for children.
The company released a new line of crayons designed to represent over 40 global skin tones.
Crayola says it hopes its “Colors of the World” collection will increase representation and foster a greater sense of belonging and acceptance among children.
The collection comes in exclusive 32 or 24 count boxes and are available at Walmart stores.
How many of you are old enough to remember drive-thru movie theaters.
That’s where people watch a movie on a giant screen from their car.
Well… drive-thru’s are making a comeback.
They have been popping up all over the country in recent weeks.
Local small business owners have been reopening old drive-ins or building makeshift theaters in parking lots.
Most of the venues are showing previously released family-friendly movies.
One outdoor theater in New York reportedly sold out in three minutes after posting the tickets online.
If you’re an animal lover, it is possible to stay safe and still look cute.
The Cincinnati zoo’s gift shop created 14 adorable animal theme masks featuring pandas, cheetahs, sloths, giraffes and of the zoo’s popular and adorable hippo Fiona.
The masks come in adult, youth and toddler sizes.
They cost less than $20.
Proceeds will go to supporting the closed zoo and its animals.
The masks are on sale now on the zoo’s website.
And speaking of wild animals, check out this spectacular site.
A group of boaters were treated to an unexpected surprise off the coast of Southern California: a super pod of dolphins.
A super pod happens when several smaller individual pods of dolphins merge into one big pod.
The boaters who witnessed this super pod estimates there were about 1,000 dolphins in the group.
Wow!
Posted – 5.24.20