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Everett Smith and his brother have exchanged the same card for every birthday since 1964.
(By Nellie Doneva -- Abilene Reporter-news Via Ap)
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Brothers Have a (Birthday) Card Up Their Sleeves
· Happy birthday, bro!
Do you exchange birthday cards with your siblings? If so, you might want to start a tradition like the one Glendell Smith and his brother Everett have. They've been sending the same birthday card back and forth to each other for 42 years!
The tradition started in 1964 when Everett sent Glendell a birthday card. The next year, Everett got the same card in the mail from Glendell. A tradition was born.
Over the years the brothers have added messages to the card. It's now laminated, with six attached pages of messages.
Yesterday, Glendell turned 63. We bet you can guess what was in his mailbox.
A Tilted View of the Planets
· An early gravitational dance made the giant planets tilt the way they do -- which is different from the way Earth and the other smaller planets tilt, an astronomer reported.
The shift probably happened billions of years ago. The bigger planets in our solar system were closer together then, and the gravity of each one exerted a pull on the others, said scientist Adrian Brunini of Argentina.
Scientists had believed that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune tilted the way they do because of collisions with Earth-sized space rocks. All the planets in our solar system have tilted axes. But the tilts of the bigger planets don't change; the tilt of smaller planets, including Earth, can change.