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Today is the anniversary of Sally Ride’s blast off into space. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman — and youngest astronaut — to go into space. Today’s trivia questions are about Sally Ride and other first females. Will you celebrate firsts by being the first person to submit all the correct answers to today’s trivia in our Comments section?

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Question 1: Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?

Question 2: The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920: what did it give women the right to do?

Question 3: Who was the first woman honored by being featured on a U.S. coin?

Question 4: How did Sally Ride find out about the job at NASA?

Find the answers to these questions in tomorrow’s post!

How’d you like to be a biospeleologist and hang out in some cool, dank caves during the hot summer months? In today’s animated podcast, Josh and Chuck of Stuff You Should Know get to chatting about the food chain and bat guano (a.k.a. bat poop).

Click on this cute little cartoon bat, from stuffyoushouldknow.com, to start the animation….

Okay, so bat’s are cool. What about studying them? Check out this radio report about “Mexico’s Bat Man” from Public Radio International.

And, of course, you can find all kinds of great bat information in your Discovery Education account:

K-2: Bats; Kitty’s Hog Nosed Bat

3-5: The Bat Cave; Using Ears to See

6-8: Chasing Nature: Bats

9-12: Comparative Morphology Animation; Bats: Creatures of the Night