Good morning and welcome the Kid News. I'm Tori. Today is Wednesday, November 20th,

20, 24, President Joe Biden's 82nd birthday. And we begin with preparations for Pardon Day at the White

House. Sometime in the next few days, the outgoing Commander-in-Chief will continue the holiday

tradition of sparing two plump toms from

the presidential menu. This year's lucky birds come from Minnesota, and, as has become custom,

will be pampered at a swanky DC hotel before being paraded onto the White House grounds for the

ceremony. Which U.S. President granted the first pardon? According to USA Today,

some say it was Abraham Lincoln in 1863 when his son Tad became attached to the bird destined to

become dinner. Others pointed JFK in 1963 when he said of a live turkey, let's keep him going.

The first official pardon, however, was by George H.W. Bush in 1989.

As we get deeper into November, you've no doubt noticed it getting darker earlier.

Well, just be glad you don't live in Udkevik, Alaska, which is 330 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

On Monday at 127 in the afternoon, the phenomenon known as polar night began. That's when

due to the tilt of the earth at this time of year, the sun sets below the horizon and stays below

the horizon for 64 straight days. Over the course of a year,

however, those residents will get the same amount of daylight as the rest of us because when the

sun rises again on January 22nd, it'll stay up until August 19th. Alongside parts of Alaska,

Canada, Greenland, Finland, Norway, and Russia also

experienced polar nights, and Arctica is the only place that experiences it in the Southern

Hemisphere. Sometime very soon, what was once a fast and glamorous ship will take its final voyage, a journey from

Pier 82 in Philadelphia to a resting place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. As our roving

reporter Braggs-Costman reports, it's about to become the world's largest artificial reef.

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