✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 19, 2026

Author

Michael Cosentino
January 19th, 2026

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

In today's science news: A "magic" piano that lets you see the music 🎹, a mammal that weighs less than a paperclip 📎, and how gross were Pompeii's public baths? 🦠. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

Thanks for reading, and have a great day. If you enjoy our daily newsletter, please recommend it to a friend. –MC

 

✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of history's most powerful speeches at the March on Washington. What many don't know is that the famous "I Have a Dream" portion wasn't in his prepared remarks.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🐖 Meet the deep-sea "pigs" that walk across the deep ocean floor • BBC Discover Wildlife

🌡️ The last 11 years have been the hottest 11 on record • PBS NewsHour

👹 To learn to paint more realistic demons, a pre-teen Michelangelo studied fish at a local market • Open Culture

🫎 Nearly 1,600 moose live alongside the human residents of Anchorage, Alaska • BBC Discover Wildlife

🦠 Pompeii's early public baths were a "stagnant soup" of human waste, sweat, and urine • Nautilus

🐭 There’s a mammal so tiny that it weighs less than a paperclip and eats twice its body weight every day • Animals Around the Globe

📜 AI is "reading" 2,000-year-old scrolls that are too fragile to be unrolled • Discover Wild Science

🎹 A DIY team of engineers built a “magic” piano that lets you literally see the music • My Modern Met

Want a weekly digest of TKSST videos? Get our weekly newsletter.

 

Thanks for reading. TKSST members help us keep curating these daily discoveries and support our mission to amplify videos that inspire curiosity and learning. We're essentially providing a platform to elevate creators whose work deserves a wider audience. If these morning gems brighten your coffee routine, consider becoming a member. Your support directly funds the work that brings you tomorrow's "wait, what?" moments.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links you click, helping to support TKSST at no extra cost to you.

The Kid Should See This is made possible by TKSST Members. ✨🌈🪐

You’re subscribed to Daily Curated Videos & News Today from TKSST. Get a weekly summary instead.