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5 Things You Need to Know Today: July 9

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1. Your weather report: Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 81 degrees. Tonight will continue to be partly cloudy with an overnight low of 57 degrees. Expect pretty much the same tomorrow.

2. Safe H2O? The Nashua Telegraph reports that levels of E. coli bacteria measured in the upper and lower parts of the Souhegan River were found to be acceptable. Levels in the middle of the Souhegan River rose too high for public swimming areas.

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3. Patch Fact: Kermit and Ernie are the only Muppets who were constructed with a built-in smile. All the other Muppets are built without expressions.

4. Good God particle! USA Today reports that physists have announced "preliminary" results towards the discovery of the "God particle." This particle is "a tiny subatomic particle that apparently weighs about 130 times as much as an atom of hydrogen, the lightest gas."

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5. Congrats! Kevin Goldsmith a resident of Amherst, NH was among over 1,900 students from Wake Forest University who made the Spring 2012 Dean's List.

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