Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Well sometimes these stories. Hello, I'm Johnny
Mack with five good news stories. In the Netherlands, an
engineer built a car for his pet goldfish. Blubb. The
goldfish drove the car for forty feet in one minute,
which broke world record. Yeah, I wonder what the previous
record was. Maybe we'll find out. Thomas constructed a four
wheeled vehicle with a water tank for a driver's seat.
The vehicle is steered by analyzing the movements of the
goldfish inside the tank. Thomas said, normally my job is
quite monotonous. I wanted to create something that would entertain people,
turning my serious job but as something fun. The object
is to show people what is possible to achieve with
this kind of technology, even when it's not necessarily something serious.
I would love to maybe one day be able to
help people with mobility issues. Blob the goldfish was placed
on the car. He drove it for forty feet and
three point four to six inches. In case you want
to try and break the record that set the record
for greatest distance covered in a motion sensing vehicle by
a goldfish in one minute. Congratulations. In New York at
a game Stop two hundred and seventy people who gathered
in Mario costumes to attempt the world record to celebrate
Nintendo Mario's holiday. They did this on March tenth. You
know mar one zero kind of looks like Mario. Yeah,
not quite. I'm with you. The Game Stop director of
Communications Nicole said, Mario is a reminder of people's childhood
and a care free time. You know, people still play
video games well into adulthood. I know that it is
true because I do. Organizers say they beat the previous record.
The previous record was two hundred and thirty marios. The
new one two seventy. The previous record set in China
in twenty ten. A coin was used as bus fare
in England. Well it turned out to be ancient. It's
a roughly twenty one hundred years old and was minted
by the Phoenicians. James is a cashier for Leeds City Transport.
His job includes sorting through the fares and removing any
foreign or invalid coins. Instead of getting rid of them,
he keeps unusual pieces and kept them in a wooden
chest for seventy years. He said, my grandfather would come
across coins which were not British and put them to
one side. When I went to his house and hand
me a few. It was not long after the war,
so I imagine soldiers returned to coins from countries they'd
been sent to. Neither of us were coin collectors, but
we were fascinated by their origin in imagery, and to
me they were treasure. The coin features the image of
the god Melkart, often depicted similarly to the Greek hero Hercules,
complete with the lion skin headdress. At the time of
the minting, Phoenician coins sometimes incorporated Greek imagery to appeal
to traders across the Mediterranean. Peter donated the coin to
Leeds Museum and Galleries. It's now part of a collection
spanning thousands of years. Local councilwoman Salma said, it's incredible
to imagine how this tiny piece of history, created by
an ancient civilization thousands of years ago, somehow made its
way to Leeds. Museums like ours are not just about
preserving objects. They're also about telling stories like this one
and inspiring visitors to think about that history that's all
around us, sometimes in the most unlikely of places. Meanwhile,
a sixteen hundred year old Egyptian mummy was discovered buried
with a fragment of papyrus that contained a short passage
from the Iliad. The papyrus containing the fragment was atop
the abdomen of a mummy inside a Roman era tomb.
Spokespeople for the University Institute of Ancient Near East Studies
that it's the first time in the history of archaeology
that a Greek literary text has been found deliberately incorporated
into the mummification process. And congratulations to a dog. A
dog took part in a marathon in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis
PDEE shared bodycam footage to show officers observing the five
hundred Festival mini marathon spotting a dog running alongside the participants.
An officer asked the dog, were you running the race, buddy?
The dog did not answer. The dog is friendly and
was taken to Indianapolis Animal Care Services where they were
hoping to find the owners. Good Luck to the owners
and to the dog. Those your five good news stories
for today.