✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • December 22, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
December 22nd, 2025

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In today's science news: A breakthrough for people with lazy eye 👁️, a hummingbird with a bill made for throat-stabbing 🗡️, and the mystery of ancient tattooed toddlers ⚫. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

The triskelion appears across cultures as an ancient symbol of motion and cycles, from Celtic art to Japan's tomoe. This paper craft tutorial applies that threefold theme to create intricate hanging spheres.

 

A 34-year-old Dick Van Dyke attempts to learn the mambo and cha-cha from an impatient dance instructor in this 1960 sketch from CBS's The Fabulous Fifties.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🗡️ One species of hummingbird evolved a dagger-like bill for throat-stabbing combat with competitors • Smithsonian Magazine

👁️ MIT researchers developed a method to "reboot" vision in adults with lazy eye • New Atlas

🏺 Researchers in Sudan found evidence that Nubians tattooed children as young as 18 months old • Live Science

🐙 Rare footage shows a massive seven-arm octopus hunting jellyfish deep under Monterey Bay • Discover Magazine

🌋 Researchers discovered Pompeii victims wore heavy wool clothing, raising questions about the accepted August date • Smithsonian Magazine

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