✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • February 3, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
February 3rd, 2026

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In today's smart news: Why it's "raining iguanas" in Florida 🦎, what your Hogwarts house says about your future career 🪄, and a living organism the size of three Central Parks 🦠. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Long before modern signatures, makers in ancient Uruk used carved cylinder seals to leave repeating marks on wet clay.

 

Take a room-by-room tour of The Met’s exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance with Dr. Denise M. Murrell. The extensive look explores how Black artists, writers, and thinkers used their creativity to redefine modern life in the early 20th century.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦎 In Florida, a record cold snap is causing "raining iguanas" • BBC

💁🏾‍♀️ Five influential figures who embody the "Black Girl Nerd" • Black Girl Nerds

🍄‍🟫 Beneath an Oregon forest lies a single organism the size of three Central Parks • BBC Discover Wildlife

🐹 7 facts about groundhogs unrelated to seeing shadows • Popular Science

🦇 A walnut-sized bat is the real speed king of the sky • BBC Discover Wildlife

🤝 Also in bat news: Vampire bats develop local "accents" to sound more like their closest friends • Smithsonian Magazine

🚁 Engineers have created a system that recharges drones in mid-air using lasers • Live Science

🦖 Why the world's biggest dinosaurs left their babies to fend for themselves • SciTechDaily

🪰 High-speed cameras catch the "absolutely insane" loops dragonflies use to stay upright • Science.org

⚡ What your Hogwarts House says about your future career, according to science • Popular Science

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