Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Wow, do you collect wine? A single
bottle of a nineteen forty five kanti A my French
is not the good domain de la romanae conti? I'm
sure right now? That just sold for eight hundred and
twelve thousand dollars at auction, making it the most expensive
bottle of wine ever sold. The previous record was only
five hundred and fifty eight thousand back in twenty eighteen.
What's so special about this particular nineteen forty five Well,
that vintage was the last produced before the vineyard was replanted,
meaning the grapes came from vines that had survived two
World Wars and a century of Burgundy history in wine circles.
That's basically the Avengers of grapes. John has actually tasted
the wine and said it is the greatest wine I've
ever tasted. I would hope so at that price. Congratulations
to a nineteen year old Mustang named Gringo Gringo in
the Guinness World Record after performing thirty eight tricks in
two minutes forty seven seconds. Gringo ran through a routine
that included dancing, kicking a ball, waving a flag, ringing
a bell and playing a keyboard with his nose. Now
what's interesting is Gringo was trained by using clicker training
and positive reinforcement techniques more commonly associated with dogs. The
idea is simple for where the behavior you want and
the horse actually wants to participate. Good news for an
orangutan in the Jungles of North Sumatra. The orangutan used
a canopy rope bridge to cross a road through the jungle.
The moment was caught on a camera and the people
who had installed the bridge had been waiting for this moment.
They were thrilled. Helen Buckland is the CEO of Sumatran
Orangutan Society and said, waiting for this moment happened for
over two years has been excruciating. Now that it has,
we're overjoyed. So here's the deal. In that area, they're
about three hundred and fifty wild orangutans trying to live
their lives as a growing human population moves in around them.
A road now cuts through the middle of their habitats,
splitting the population in two. That creates all kinds of problems,
one orangutans getting hit by cars and two Orangutans are
especially vulnerable to genetic problems when a population becomes too isolated.
If the two halves of the group can't mix, you
get a weaker gene pool. During the two years when
they were waiting for the orangutan, all kinds of other
animals figured it out. Squirrels, langers, gibbons. They all started
using them, but no orangutans. However, because orangutans are highly
intelligent and very social. Now that one has used the bridge,
others are expected to follow. A man in Paris when
a Pablo Picasso painting worth one million dollars he had
bought a ticket for one hundred euros. Not bad Ari
found out about the charity Raffle completely by chance. He
was eating a meal at a restaurant. He bought a
ticket a few days later. Organizers called him Seti one.
The painting is called Head of a Woman, a portrait
of Picasso's longtime muse and partner Dora, painted in nineteen
forty one. The public market values around one point four
to five million euros. The gallery that owned it offered
it at a prefatial price for the Raffle. All one
hundred and twenty thousand tickets were old worldwide, raising twelve
million euros. So that's a good return on a painting
worth one point four to five right, And the money
was raised for Alzheimer's research. The raffle was organized by
the Alzheimer's Research Foundation, which is based out of one
of Paris's leading public hospitals and has become France's leading
private financier of alzheimer related medical research. This is actually
the third time the charity has raffed off of Picasso.
Back in twenty thirteen, a guy who worked at a
fire sprinkler business in Pennsylvania won a Cubist period oil painting.
In twenty twenty, an accountant in Italy one one her
son had bought her a ticket as a Christmas present.
And here's why your flight was delayed. You're not going
to believe this one. A Southwest Airlines flight out of
Oakland was delayed because of a passenger. The passenger was
a robot. The robot's human companion boarded the plane with
his four foot tall, seventy pounds robot named Bebop. Bebop
had a ticket, a real ticket. A seat was purchased
for Bebop the robot. The first problem was the airline
staff said, Bebop can't sit in an aisle seat. Okay, fine,
so they moved Bebops to the window seat. Then problem
number two. Staff started asking about the battery. Turned out
Bebop's lithium battery was larger than what Southwest allows as
carry on items, so the battery had to be removed
and confiscated before the plane could deport. The flight left
one hour and two minutes late. How annoyed would you be?
And those are your five good news stories for today.
Have a good one.