Category: Kids News

Throw some blueberries in your pancake mix, because it’s Blueberry Pancake Day. After you finish breakfast, hum your favorite tunes, on an annoying instrument, to celebrate Kazoo Day! You can play it while you’re working, since it’s also Have Fun At Work Day. It won’t bother anyone else at all, haha-haha-ha!

In 1949, the first set of automatic binding bricks were produced in Denmark. You may know them better, as Legos! Today is International LEGO Day, so see what you can create. Did you know, there are over 4,000,000,000 LEGO minifigures in the world? The LEGO bricks sold in a single year, would circle the Earth 5 times!

If you have a set of Jenga blocks, stand one up vertically, on its end. Now, try to balance more blocks on top. How many did you stack? A 12-year-old from British Columbia Canada, is the block-stacking master. Auldin Maxwell stacked 693 Jenga blocks, on a single vertical block. That’s a new world record!

In 1949, someone borrowed a book called “Great Heart, The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt,” from a New York library. Some kid probably had to write a report on Roosevelt for class. Maybe they forgot to return it and didn’t have money to pay the fine, but the book was finally returned, 72 years overdue.

A company called AppHarvest, is building the world’s largest indoor farms, in Kentucky’s Appalachia region. Using recycled rainwater and no chemical pesticides, the farms provide fresh fruits and vegetables all year long. The farms produce 30 times more food than conventional farms. Instead of mining coal, the Appalachian agricultural center can mine carrots!

Taking photos of yourself can be entertaining, but today is meant for more studious selfies. It’s Library Shelfie Day. Arrange all your favorite books on shelves behind you, and then pose with them. You could even visit an actual library, and get a group shot with your favorite author’s books. Smile and say “Reed!”

On January 27th 1888, a group was founded for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.” It’s National Geographic Day, so grab the magazine with the yellow border, and learn something about the world around you. You should celebrate their 133rd birthday with a piece of chocolate cake, since it’s also Chocolate Cake Day! Yum!

Are you good, at catching popcorn in your mouth? Here’s a record you can try to break. David Rush and his friend Jonathan Hannon, who have lots of experience breaking world records, teamed up again. Jonathan threw pieces of popcorn at David, who caught 54 pieces in 1 minute! They must have great aim.

Rose Zhang was helping with an underwater cleanup in Hawaii, when she found a GoPro camera. The memory card was still intact, so she posted the video on Facebook, hoping to find the owner. Nainoa Kamai was shocked to see his video online. His camera had spent the last 7 years in the ocean!

At the center of most galaxies is a black hole. That’s where gravity pulls so hard, not even light can escape. There are stellar-mass, supermassive, and ultramassive black holes. Scientists believe there are black holes so big, they’d need a new category. Stupendously Large Black Holes, or SLABS, are 100,000,000,000 times our Sun’s mass.