Category: Kids News

Last month, Pablo Avila lost consciousness while scuba diving. Luckily, 3 mermaids rescued him. Elle Jiminez and 2 of her students, perform as mermaids in California. When they saw the man in trouble, they put on their mermaid fins, and dove in to help, giving him rescue breaths and CPR. Mermaids saved his life!

Today is Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day. Don’t be so uptight, stop taking everything so seriously, and have some fun. Start your silliness, with Family PJ Day. Spend the day in your pajamas! One thing you shouldn’t loosen up, is your seat belt. For Seat Belt Day, promise to always, always, always buckle up!

Today is Pickle Day. Whether it’s a giant crunchy dill pickle or a tiny sweet gherkin, sliced on a sandwich, or fried on a stick, pickled cucumbers are delicious! Would you enjoy pickles dipped in squashed avocado? It’s also Spicy Guacamole Day, so this would be the day to try it!

Have you ever worn a lanyard? It might have been your school ID, or a park pass worn on a strap around your neck. Salacnib Sonny Molina, set a world record, by wearing 509 lanyards at once. He also holds several other world records, including farthest distance walking barefoot on Lego bricks.

The Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester New York, inducted 3 toys to its Toy Hall of Fame this year. The new inductees are Masters of the Universe, the magic light box known as Lite-Brite, and spinning tops. Tops are one of the oldest toys in history, dating back 5000 years.

Last Tuesday, voters in Florida elected the first Gen Z United States Congress member. Generation Z, is considered anyone born between 19 97 and 2012. 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost, led activists fighting to control gun violence, and restore voting rights. He wants to continue that work in Congress, as well as fight climate change.

An ivory comb, carved from an elephant tusk 3,700 years ago, was found in Israel. Etched onto the comb, is the first sentence ever discovered, that was written in the Canaanite language. Translated, the inscription reads, “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and beard.” It’s the comb’s instructions label.

Today is World Kindness Day. Try to think about each thing you do, and make sure you’re being kind. Then go out of your way to do one nice thing for someone. Can you do that every day? Think how great the world would be, if everyone treated each other with kindness!

How long does it take you to tie a shoe? How about 6 shoes? Alvaro Martin Mendieta is now the shoe-tying champion, after setting a new world record. The Spanish man tied 3 pairs of shoelaces into bows, in 9.99 seconds. I wonder how fast he can get knots out.

At this moment, the world has more than 7,999,400,000 living people. Sometime today or tomorrow, the population will reach 8,000,000,000. Watch a population counter online, like worldometers.info, to see the momentous occasion. But with an average of 385,000 births per day, don’t blink. The population will be 8,000,000,000 for less than 1 second.