Good morning, and welcome to Kid News! I'm Tori.

Today is Friday, September 1st, 2023, the start of the long Labor Day weekend.

And we begin with something to cluck about. At the ripe old age of 21,

peanut, a golden brown hand from Waterloo, Michigan, is now the oldest living chicken,

according to Guinness. Her human, Marcy Parker Darwin, shared details

with NPR, a first finding her feathered friend as an unhatched egg in an abandoned nest

to the present day, where the attention-loving bitty regularly jumps into people's laps to be held.

Peanut also apparently knows her name, turning her head even when called by the family's pet parrot.

Over the years, Marcy had taken photos of peanut alongside her nieces and nephews,

which helped document her long life to the judges.

If she makes it another two years, peanut will earn the crown for the oldest chicken to ever live,

a record currently held by a 23-year-old hen by the name of Muffy.

It was a record-setting day in the world of sports. On Wednesday,

92,000 three fans packed into the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium

to watch their women's volleyball team take on Omaha,

and in doing so, created the largest crowd ever at a women's sporting event

anywhere on the planet. Organizers have been planning volleyball day in Nebraska

since the spring, hoping to tap into the sport's massive popularity

in a state of fewer than two million people. It worked.

Students were even given the day off from classes, and his head coach John Cook told ESPN

only three things have ever shut down the school, one, snowstorms, two, COVID,

and three, Nebraska volleyball.

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