✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • January 13, 2026

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Michael Cosentino
January 13th, 2026

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In today's science news: Why does the South Pole keep getting moved? 🇦🇶, why do primates engage in same-sex behavior? 🦧, and what was the "Free City of Tri-Insula?" 🌆. Plus, more headlines after today's video 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

It’s 1906, and a 16-year-old maid is planning a secret protest for women's rights inside a grand English estate.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🇦🇶 Why do scientists move the South Pole marker 10 meters every New Year's Day?• Scientific American

🦧 A study of 59 primate species suggests that same-sex behavior isn't random • The Guardian

👁️ Research suggests your blink rate is a "tell" for how hard your brain is working • Sci Tech Daily

🗽 NYC once tried to secede from the Union and become the "Free City of Tri-Insula." • Smithsonian Magazine

❄️ The "fleas" you might find hopping on snow are actually 410-million-year-old soil recyclers • Popular Science

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