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Horses have lived on Earth for over 50,000,000 years. Humans domesticated them, to help them travel, farm, or compete in races, but there are still horses that live in the wild. Horses can run up to 55 miles-per-hour! The world’s tallest horse, Big Jake, is over 7 feet tall. Thumbelina, the word’s smallest horse, was only 17 inches!
Today is Violin Day, the first instrument that many kids learn to play. If your school has a strings program, be sure to sign up! You can always listen to classical, bluegrass, or Irish music to hear some fantastic violin playing! Listen with a cup of hot chocolate, because it’s also National Cocoa Day!
If you’ve never seen an origami shirt, go visit Jude Coram. He holds the world record, for largest display of origami shirts, with 4,036 of them! The tiny shirts are made of folded paper, and fill the front windows of Maketank, in Exeter England. I wonder if the shirts would fit a hamster.
In late December, the James Webb Space Telescope will finally launch. The telescope has a gigantic 21.5-foot-wide mirror coated with gold, and is protected by a sunshield, which will unfold to the size of a tennis court. As Webb orbits the Sun, a million miles from Earth, it will explore cosmic history.
When a wildfire sweeps through an area, it often leaves animals homeless. In Australia, Dr Alexandra Carthey created cardboard wildlife shelters, to protect animals from predators. The biodegradable pods give creatures like bandicoots, possums, and geckos, a place to hide. As plants grow through holes in the shelters, the pods decompose into the landscape.
Old-timey phones used to actually ring. On Ding-A-Ling Day, call people you haven’t talked to in years. Your old babysitter would love to hear from you! Set your mobile’s ring-tone, to old phone, so you’ll ding-a-ling when someone calls you. It’s also Ambrosia Day. The sweet salad has coconut, fruit, marshmallows, and whipped cream!
Today is Gingerbread House Day. If you try to make a gingerbread house and it breaks, just make it look like a giant jawbreaker-asteroid smashed into it! It’s also Poinsettia Day, a plant indigenous to Mexico. Its vibrant red and green leaves make it a favorite around Christmas, and it has tiny yellow flowers.
A holiday yard display in California, included a big inflatable reindeer. A mama bear must have thought it would be good wrestling practice for her cub, because she stood by watching her baby bear climb all over the reindeer decoration. After briefly pinning the 6-foot deer, the cub gave a final swat, and left.
A sign on a Delaware highway was replaced, after proofreading drivers pointed out, that it was misspelled. The sign marked the exit under construction, for Delaware Avenue, but had left out an “A.” Delaware Department of Transportation quickly fixed the typo, and joked that they were testing to see, if drivers were paying attention.
A high school basketball team in Michigan, was trying to coordinate practice times, through a group text. They accidentally got 1 number wrong, and texted Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback, Sean Murphy-Bunting. Sean was a good sport, and introduced the rest of the Bucs team by FaceTime, including Rob Gronkowski, Leonard Fournette, and Tom Brady!