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used diapers? Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.
All right, this is what's going on in Japan. They've
taken on one of the least glamorous waste problems imaginable,
used diapers, and instead of bearing them, they're turning them
into new diapers. All right. They realized the landfill was
going to run out of space, so they figured out,
we got to recycle these things. These days, those towns
recycle about eighty percent of household waste, including diapers. Residents
separate and labeled diaper waste, which is then collected, washed, shredded,
and broken down to its core components. The pulp gets
sterilized using ozone gas, basically being deep clean to the
point where it meets strict hygiene standards and can now
be reused to make new diapers. They're also using it
for things like toilet papers, So think about what you're
doing next time you're using toilet paper. It may have
been a used diaper. Wees thought the pain in his
leg was another chapter in a long battle with MS.
He's forty five, had been dealing with symptoms for years.
Including losing his vision in his early twenties, he was
matched with a guide dog, a black lab named Jerry.
Jerry had helped him navigate the world, boosted his confidence
and pulled him out of isolation. Then Jerry started doing
something unusual. He kept pressing his chin against Luis's left leg,
not once, not casually, but persistently. Luis and his wife
decided to go to the hospital. There, doctors discovered he
had deep veigned thrombosis, a potentially life threatening blood clot
in the exact spot Jerry the Dog had been focused on.
Wow In Boston, horror fans turned Boston into a scene
straight out of a slasher movie on purpose. It was
at the Packs East Expo. Organizers gathered tuner in fifty
four people dressed as Michael Myers to set a new
Guinness World Record title for largest group portraying Michael Myers.
The event was tied to the unveiling of a new
video game based on the Halloween franchise. Participants showed up
in the character signature look blue coveralls and the White
Mask which, by the way, the white mask is based
on a likeness of William Shanner. That's true trivia. There
five friends from California have been running one of the longest,
simplest social experiments imaginable. They stand in the same spot
and take the same photo and see what happens. It
started in nineteen eighty two, John Mark, Dallas, Different John
and Jaded took a casual snapshot. They were at the
family cabin on Copco Lake near the Oregon border. No plan,
just guys taking a photo. Five years later, they did
it again. By nineteen ninety seven, they realized that what
they had started and they made it official. And they've
kept doing it in nineteen eighty two, eighty seven, ninety two,
ninety seven, two seven, twenty twelve, twenty seventeen, twenty twenty two.
And guess what's coming up soon? Same lineup, same lake,
same general vibe, a little more gray hair. There's even
a recurring prop. It's a jar that originally contained a
roach they caught on the first trip that somehow became
the unofficial mascot. We'll check back with them next year.
And congratulations to Sugar the Sugar the dove officially recognized
as the oldest dove living in capacity at forty four
years seventy two days Most doves in captivity live around
twenty years. Duane has lived with Sugar since the day
Sugar hatched. Sugar even had a mate, Rose, Rose passed
away way back in nineteen ninety six, which means Sugar
has been carrying on solo longer than some people's entire
adult lives. Sugar likes to watch TV on the family couch. Interesting,
the previous record holder was a bird named Methuselah. Sugar
has beat the previous record by fifteen years. And those
are your five good news stories for today.