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Here’s an unbelievable world record: fastest time to solve three Rubik’s cubes whilst juggling! Yes, you heard that right. 13 year-old Que Jianyu from China, solved 3 Rubik’s cubes simultaneously as he juggled them, and he did it in just over 5 minutes! I didn’t know jugglesolving was even a thing! He is amazing!
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Mr. Chen has a very devoted dog. When he goes to the train station in China each day to go to work, his dog follows. Then Xiongxiong, which is Chinese for bear, waits patiently for 12 hours, accepting occasional pats on the head. He saves all his excitement and tail-wagging for Mr. Chen’s return!
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You can travel nearly 20,000 miles through the ocean in a straight line without hitting land. But what about traveling on land? If you had a magic car with no steering wheel, that could travel over any terrain, and through man-made objects, the longest straight path would take you nearly 7000 miles from China to Portugal!
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A woman at an airport in China had an unhealthy attachment to her purse. When it came time to send it through the x-ray machine at security, she climbed onto the conveyor belt and rode through carrying it! She risked high levels of radiation, but she and her bag were cleared for takeoff.
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The air quality in Beijing China is finally improving. Zou Yi has photographed the city every day for five years and is excited to see blue skies this winter due to pollution controls. China is also reassigning 60,000 military troops to planting trees! They hope to restore their country’s forests with 34,000 square miles of trees.
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The Belfast Zoo introduced its newest member to the public. The baby is a François langur, a primate native to China, Vietnam and Laos. He was born to mom Nicoleen and dad AJ and is named Huadian, which is Chinese for rascal. Apparently he has a cheeky personality!
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Today is National Boy Scout Day. A requirement for the aviation merit badge in 1911 was to “build a box kite that will fly.” You don’t have to be a scout to do that; it’s also National Kite Flying Day! Kites have been around since 470 BC in China! Build or fly a kite today!
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Some fifth graders in China are making world news after they got a crazy math test question. “If a ship has 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship’s captain?” was the unsolvable problem designed to test students’ critical awareness. The students gave creative answers including narcissism, animal weight, and licensing ages.
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Border shmorder. A wild Asian elephant was filmed stepping right over the barriers marking the border between Laos and China. To keep the elephant safe, border guards alerted nearby residents. 300 elephants live in the rainforest in Yunnan Province China, but in winter they make illegal crossings to forage for food.
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Caihong jugi means “rainbow with the big crest”, and it’s the name of a duck-sized dinosaur found in China. The detailed fossil showed a Jurassic period dinosaur covered in shaggy plumage with a long skull and fan-shaped tail. Preserved melanosomes like a hummingbird’s mean it had brightly colored iridescent feathers!
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