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Today is National Fruitcake Day! Fruitcake somehow got a bad reputation, but it’s really a delicious cake made with candied fruit and nuts. Ancient Romans used pomegranate seeds and pine nuts. Honey and spices were added in the Middle Ages. Some recipes also use brandy or liqueurs. Enjoy some fruitcake today!
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Adam Kirby and his friends Jim and Alisdair had quite a catch when they went fishing near Pawleys Island, South Carolina. They caught the biggest Black Drum fish ever recorded! Large specimens of the saltwater fish sometimes top 90 pounds, but this one weighed 122 pounds! The fish was released back into the wild.
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Three meerkat pups were born at a Florida zoo. The triplets were named Vixen, Comet and Cupid after Santa’s reindeer. They are still hiding out in their burrow with their parents, Cashew and Kirabo. Meerkats are found in the grasslands of southern Africa and live in social groups called mobs.
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Kuka is a robotic arm that used to work in the automotive industry. Now it’s a DJ! Kuka spins records at a nightclub in Prague in the Czech Republic. It uses software to pick music, scratch and even dance. The robot arm switches shifts with its human programmer. Kuka’s a big hit!
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Sometimes extreme cold gives you a runny nose. Cold-induced rhinitis can cause your nose to drip a cup of fluid a day! When you inhale, your nose has to make the air warm and wet to avoid irritating your lung cells. Secretions create humidity, but sometimes your nose just makes more than necessary.
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A fossilized skull of a Siberian Unicorn was found in Kazakhstan! Earlier fossils were 350,000 years old, but this unicorn lived only 29,000 years ago. The Siberian unicorn, or Elasmotherium sibiricum looked like a 6 foot tall rhino with shaggy fur like a woolly mammoth and a long, slender horn coming out of its head.
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Christmas tradition says a star overhead marked the location where Jesus was born. The Bible describes how wise men followed a star to Bethlehem. Some people think the star was really a UFO! They also think Jesus was an alien who could shift shapes. Whatever you believe, Merry Christmas!
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A fun holiday activity is making a gingerbread house. The cookie walls and decorations made from icing and candy look too beautiful to eat. But you’d have a hard time eating the biggest gingerbread house. It was built in Texas in 2013 and was 60 feet long. You’d have to live in it instead!
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Have you heard of Fingerlings? Maybe you got one of these toys for a holiday gift. They are actually miniature robot monkeys. They can sense and react to sound, motion, and position. They are quite inexpensive for a sophisticated robot, not to mention cute. No wonder they are so popular!
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A popular Christmas gift for kids years ago used to be a chemistry set. But those sets could be dangerous! They contained poisonous cyanide to dissolve gold, blowtorches to make glass test tubes, radioactive uranium to practice measuring radiation, and carcinogenic asbestos to dust for fingerprints. Now some chemistry sets don’t even contain chemicals!
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