Keelan Glass of Abilene, Texas is just 6 years old, but she can probably outrun most of us. She completed a half marathon—that’s 13.1 miles—in 2 hours, 47 minutes and 30 seconds. It’s a world record.

At least, it’s a record as far as officials could determine. There’s no record of anyone under the age of nine and a half running a timed half marathon.

Keelan’s parents are both triathletes and she used to ride with them in her stroller as they trained. She got bored, so they let her run. She was running 5 kilometer races by the age of 4 and 10 kilometer races by the age of 5.

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If you don't tear up a little during this video, at least you will find yourself smiling at these beautiful youngsters. The patients and staff of Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, New hampshire got together to do a lip-dub of Katy's Perry's song "Roar." These children know exactly what "dancin' through the fire" really means. The girl in the tie-dyed shirt is Meghan Richardson. The video was made in support of the hospital's fundraising organization, CHaD Hero, which recently raised $650,000 with a half-marathon. Donations made through this link will be matched, doubling their effect. -via Digg

No, that's not the Tea Partiers throwing a temper tantrum.

Kathy Sterner was getting fed up that her 6-year-old daughter was throwing a tantrum in her room. Thankfully, dad was there to provide a bit of comic relief: he lip-synched the kid's tantrum and mom captured the whole thing on video.

Oh, and for the record, Sterner said that her daughter is "not typically a beast child - she's actually a pretty awesome little kid who was having a rough day." Make that an Internet-famous little kid who just had her tantrum broadcast for the entire world to see.

View the video clip over at YouTube - via Tastefully Offensive and Laughing Squid.

Teach your child to be honest, preferably by example. Or by terrifying them with unnecessary fears. Pretty much anything that works, as Lunarbaboon illustrates.

For an older generation: the real reason E.T. died is because you ate the last slice of cake and blamed your little sister.

Bonus item: a father who can't lie.

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Children’s Librarian Susan Scatena of the Whitestone branch of the public library system of Queens, New York promised her kids something amazing: if the 300 children registered with the summer reading program read at least 4,000 books, she would read a story to an alligator. And not to a stuffed animal version, but a real alligator.

The kids reached that goal and Ms. Scatena kept her word. Last September, before an audience of hundreds of children and one alligator, she read Mercer Mayer’s There’s an Alligator under My Bed. Wally, a five-foot long alligator, and her handler, Eric Callendar, listened attentively.

Do you see anything wrapped around Wally’s mouth to act as a muzzle? I don’t.

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Randi Zuckerberg is the sister of Facebook CEO Marl Zuckerberg. She has written a children's book about a little girl who is obsessed with social media. She has to learn to turn to turn off her phone and join the real world.   

Randi's book Dot, which goes on sale on November 5, is about a little girl named Dot who can't stop fidgeting with her phone. "Dot loves technology. A LOT. She’s obsessed with her devices (sound familiar?), but with a little push, she’s reminded that life’s a little bit richer when you look up from the screen," Randi writes on her blog.

If it sounds odd that the sister of an Internet mogul whose goal is turning the world into a bunch of Facebook-using smartphone addicts would write a children's book that urges people to put down their phones and experience real life, well, it is. It would be like Mario Batali's sister writing a low-carb cookbook.

Do you reckon this might cause some tension at the Zuckerberg family Thanksgiving dinner? Randi Zuckerberg worked for Facebook until 2011, when she resigned to start her own social media lifestyle company, Zuckerberg Media. The switch coincided with the birth of her first child. Dot is scheduled for release on November 5th -and if you are wondering, yes, the book will be available in ebook form from certain retailers. -via mental_floss

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This year, it seems just about everyone will be Miley Cyrus or Walter White. For those inclined to do the later, you might want to just give up on your Breaking Bad costume now because you're never going to compete with the awesomeness of these two cute drug dealers who are not only too young to ever have seen the show, but too young to even know what drugs are. 

If you still aren't convinved that these are the ultimate in Breaking Bad costumes, consider that Aaron Paul (aka Jesse Pinkman) himself posted this picture on his Instagram.

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Four-year-old Tristan captured the hearts of the audience and judges on Belgium's Got Talent last week. He'd be a star just standing there, as cute as he is! Then he dances and the crowd eats it up. You have to consider that the song has been out for a big part of this child's life; he probably doesn't remember a world without Gangnam Style. The only part of this video that's in English is one judge, who Tristan obviously cannot understand, but then again, you can pretty much figure out what everyone is saying. -via Viral Viral Videos

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Sweep the leg! They may be in training as warriors, but it's hard to be fierce when you have to stop and smile for the audience every minute or so. These twins are having altogether a lot of fun! Someone who understands Mandarin might be able to glean information from us out of this TV report. I'd like to know how old they were when this video was taken.  -via Daily Picks and Flicks

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Some three-year-olds don't talk much at all, while others talk all the time, regardless of whether anyone is listening or not. This little boy is of the latter variety. He's going to the potty by himself, but he keeps up a running commentary, scolding himself for eating so much yesterday. He even goes over in his mind all the things he ate!

Meanwhile, his parents are outside the door, recording the monologue -and trying their best not to roll in the floor laughing. This one not only made me laugh, but I had to drag my husband in to hear it. -via Viral Viral Videos

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Science is always fun, but it's even more fun with Muppets! Grover joins the hosts of 5 facts to present some easy science experiments even kids can do. Bringing back the dinosaurs will have to wait for another day. Today we make a rainbow, float an orange, do the oobleck dance, and more! The video is part of the new Sesame Street initiative called LIttle Discoverers, to promote STEM (science, teechnology, engineering, and math) interests in young children. Find the details of each experiment at Mashable. -via Uproxx

I found this picture in an image collection at The Chive called It’s nearly impossible to argue with kid logic. I believe 7-year-old Elijah had a perfectly good answer on number ten, yet the teacher marked it wrong. Isn't a fart a gas? Yet, it is. According to Wikipedia, farts are composed mostly of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane.

It's possible that the test required answers that were part of class discussion, but one gets the feeling that the teacher objected to the vulgarity of the term fart. If that was the case, she could have suggested the terms "flatulence" or "methane" as a substitute. Telling a child that a word is inappropriate is very different from telling a kid that he's wrong on a science test. After all, families who don't use the term "fart" are very likely to say "gas." Any 7-year-old knows they mean the same thing. What do you think?   

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When he grows up, 6-year old Walker Greentree wants to be a SEAL—a  member of the special forces of the United States Navy. While he was playing with a friend, his mother scolded him for being noisy and told him to be “quiet like a SEAL.” Walker’s friend insisted that ninjas are quieter than SEALs—a proposition that Walker heartily disputed.

In order to resolve their argument, Walker wrote to Admiral William H. McRaven, the commanding officer of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Who is quieter, Walker asked, ninjas or SEALs?

Admiral McRaven wrote back to Walker. Showing his diplomatic abilities, the Admiral graciously praised the skills of ninjas:

To answer your questions: I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up. I can hold my breath for a long time, but I try not to unless I really have to.  

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Yeah, that's a little Chucky and Bride of Chucky, both of whom are too young to even understand who Chucky is or why dolls might just be utterly terrifying. And they are not the only children in a totally goofy gettup that makes no sense to the kids celebrating Halloween. Buzzfeed has a great gallery with 32 fantastic kid's costumes and while some of them undoubtedly know what they're dressed as (Spider-Man, a granny, the ice cream man, etc), I really hope that those dressed as the girls from The Shining or as Alex from Clockwork Orange have no idea what their parents were going for.

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Which is cuter to watch in a video: cats or babies? It doesn't matter, because in this compilation video you have both!

It was once "common knowledge" that cats should not be allowed access to babies because they would take their breath, or smother them. It is thought that this old wives tale was born because cats are attracted to the smell of milk in a baby's mouth. It just looks like the cat is trying to suck the breath out of a baby.

In my experience, most cats are pretty tolerant of babies, and will put with their cluelessness. After all, we love babies of other species, too! That said, first encounters between any cats and babies should be supervised by adults. -via Tastefully Offensive