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Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Well sometimes these stories. Hello, I'm Johnny

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Mack with five good news stories. In the Netherlands, an

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engineer built a car for his pet goldfish. Blubb. The

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goldfish drove the car for forty feet in one minute,

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which broke world record. Yeah, I wonder what the previous

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record was. Maybe we'll find out. Thomas constructed a four

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wheeled vehicle with a water tank for a driver's seat.

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The vehicle is steered by analyzing the movements of the

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goldfish inside the tank. Thomas said, normally my job is

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quite monotonous. I wanted to create something that would entertain people,

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turning my serious job but as something fun. The object

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is to show people what is possible to achieve with

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this kind of technology, even when it's not necessarily something serious.

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I would love to maybe one day be able to

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help people with mobility issues. Blob the goldfish was placed

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on the car. He drove it for forty feet and

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three point four to six inches. In case you want

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to try and break the record that set the record

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for greatest distance covered in a motion sensing vehicle by

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a goldfish in one minute. Congratulations. In New York at

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a game Stop two hundred and seventy people who gathered

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in Mario costumes to attempt the world record to celebrate

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Nintendo Mario's holiday. They did this on March tenth. You

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know mar one zero kind of looks like Mario. Yeah,

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not quite. I'm with you. The Game Stop director of

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Communications Nicole said, Mario is a reminder of people's childhood

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and a care free time. You know, people still play

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video games well into adulthood. I know that it is

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true because I do. Organizers say they beat the previous record.

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The previous record was two hundred and thirty marios. The

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new one two seventy. The previous record set in China

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in twenty ten. A coin was used as bus fare

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in England. Well it turned out to be ancient. It's

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a roughly twenty one hundred years old and was minted

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by the Phoenicians. James is a cashier for Leeds City Transport.

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His job includes sorting through the fares and removing any

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foreign or invalid coins. Instead of getting rid of them,

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he keeps unusual pieces and kept them in a wooden

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chest for seventy years. He said, my grandfather would come

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across coins which were not British and put them to

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one side. When I went to his house and hand

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me a few. It was not long after the war,

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so I imagine soldiers returned to coins from countries they'd

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been sent to. Neither of us were coin collectors, but

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we were fascinated by their origin in imagery, and to

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me they were treasure. The coin features the image of

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the god Melkart, often depicted similarly to the Greek hero Hercules,

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complete with the lion skin headdress. At the time of

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the minting, Phoenician coins sometimes incorporated Greek imagery to appeal

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to traders across the Mediterranean. Peter donated the coin to

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Leeds Museum and Galleries. It's now part of a collection

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spanning thousands of years. Local councilwoman Salma said, it's incredible

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to imagine how this tiny piece of history, created by

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an ancient civilization thousands of years ago, somehow made its

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way to Leeds. Museums like ours are not just about

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preserving objects. They're also about telling stories like this one

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and inspiring visitors to think about that history that's all

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around us, sometimes in the most unlikely of places. Meanwhile,

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a sixteen hundred year old Egyptian mummy was discovered buried

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with a fragment of papyrus that contained a short passage

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from the Iliad. The papyrus containing the fragment was atop

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the abdomen of a mummy inside a Roman era tomb.

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Spokespeople for the University Institute of Ancient Near East Studies

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that it's the first time in the history of archaeology

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that a Greek literary text has been found deliberately incorporated

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into the mummification process. And congratulations to a dog. A

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dog took part in a marathon in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis

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PDEE shared bodycam footage to show officers observing the five

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hundred Festival mini marathon spotting a dog running alongside the participants.

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An officer asked the dog, were you running the race, buddy?

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The dog did not answer. The dog is friendly and

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was taken to Indianapolis Animal Care Services where they were

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hoping to find the owners. Good Luck to the owners

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and to the dog. Those your five good news stories

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for today.