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THON Dancers Reflect (And Sleep)

We're now four days out, and our collective THON hangover is finally subsiding. Now that the 707 dancers are (hopefully) all fully recovered, we caught up with a few to ask them some questions about their once-in-a-lifetime experience.

[Video] THON 2014: A Recap

[Video] Relive THON 2014 and all its magic again in this recap video.

Distraction of the Day: Penn Staters are FTK in Florence, Italy

Distraction of the Day: Penn Staters studying abroad in Florence, Italy showed their support of THON in a special way.

THON 2014 to be Featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer Tuesday

ABC World News with Diane Sawyer was at THON filming all weekend. Tonight on the 'America Strong' segment from 6:30-7:00 p.m., they'll be unveiling the coverage for a national audience. They spent the weekend following one of the Four Diamonds families and shot some wonderful footage of the event throughout.

THON Total Reveal Scream Breaks Our Decibel Meter App

As it turns out, the app we were using maxes out at 110 dBA. The unified roar got to that easily, but because it was sustained, the app crashed, meaning we may have broken the 137.6 dBa world record for unified yell. We'll never really be sure, but it's better to believe, isn't it?

Hershey Medical Center Thanks THON Participants

The CEO of Penn State Hershey Medical Center penned a letter of thanks to all those who helped THON raise a whopping $13,343,517.33 For The Kids. This brings the total donated to the Four Diamonds Fund since 1977 to more than $114 million.

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