Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. In Minneapolis, a pizza place is delivering
free food to vulnerable families amid the ice crackdowns. Rectangle
Pizza launched a buy a Pizza, give It Pizza to
a family a need deal to support community members. In
a few days, they received eighty three thousand dollars in
donations to support their efforts. They sold two two hundred
and ninety one pizzas in four days and said we
couldn't be more stunned or grateful. Congratulations to Charlie, a
French sailor who completed a solo sailing race while secretly
battling gastro intestinal cancer. He began the twenty four thousand
mile race as the favorite after narrowly finishing second to
previous year. Unknown to competitors and most of his team,
he had been diagnosed a year earlier with a fifteen
centimeter tumor in a small intestine. Doctors weren't sure what
was going to happen, but immunotherapy appeared to slow the
tumor's growth. Charlie chose to race while continuing the treatment
at sea. During the multi month voyage. He had to
deal with torns, broken equipment, brutal storms, fatigue. He had
to take daily cancer medication alone aboard his sixty foot boat.
To take the lead, he made a risky decision steering
toward a powerful storm system that allowed him to build
a lead. He eventually had a lead of more than
two hundred miles. One of his rivals caught up, but
then Charlie reclaimed that extended the lead. He crossed the
finish line in January. He didn't say anything about his
illness at the finish he didn't want it to overshadow
the achievement. A few days later, a post race scan
revealed the tumor had grown during the race. Surgery followed.
He was hospitalized for weeks. He's uncertain about his long
term prognosis, but he said there's no proof of racing
worsened the condition and says watching the race from home
would have been unbearable. Good luck to you, sir, and congratulations.
A new study in the Journal of Mammalogy says the
number of recognized living mammal species has increased by about
twenty five percent since two thousand and five. That's more
than thirteen hundred newly recognized mammal species in just two decades.
Some of them include the Peruvian andes, which is a
mouse opossum, a dwarf shrew in Ethiopia, and the olunguito
in Ecuador. Think I told you about that one one day.
So these are because of what scientists call splits, where
advanced genetic analysis reveals that animals thought to be one
species or actually multiple distinct ones. Modern DNA sequencing makes
it cheaper and faster to analyze hundreds of animals at once,
so they can all figure this out. Good news In
Florida they got rid of the nine foot boa constrictor
that was in someone's yard. Yikes. The Indian River Sheriff's
Office set on social media that Corporal Cremer was called
out to a home where a resident said, hey, big
snake in the yard. The Sheriff's office shared photos of
Kramer capturing the nine foot boa constrictor snake, who was
turned over to animal control. No one knows from one
where it came. And in Spain, a cat jumped out
of its owner's camper during a stop at a gas station.
What did the cat do? It walked home to France
feelw The cat jumped out the window on August ninth
at a gas station at Spain, located near the French
border but still one hundred and fifty five miles from home.
Patrick said they didn't notice the cat was gone until
the next morning. They returned to the gas station twice.
In the next few days and weeks, no one in
the area had seen any cat. A couple months went by,
then they got a call in January from someone who
was less than a mile from the house saying, Hey,
we found your cat. The woman said she'd been feeding
the cat outdoor since December and noticed he was very
thin and appeared to be coughing, so she took him
with a vet. The vet found the chip. How the
cat figured out how to get home, we'll never know.
Those are your five good news stories for today. You
have an awesome day.