Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. Matt trekked 53 miles dressed as a giant Eurasian Curlew to raise awareness for endangered species. Liesl set a Guinness World Record with her 1,035-piece Despicable Me Minions collection. A Florida woman protected her Chihuahua from a bear using a bag of cookies. An overturned truck in Texas spilled 8 million dimes, and a snake fell into a woman's margarita at a Virginia restaurant. 

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A Massachusetts town deals with a woodpecker damaging vehicles. Teachers Grace and Kate from Vermont embark on a 300-mile bike ride to support immigrant students and raise funds for classroom essentials. Cigarro National Park expands by nearly 50 acres, enhancing connectivity with Sweetwater Preserve. A letter from a Titanic passenger, auctioned for $399,000, offers a historical glimpse days before the disaster. Lastly, a new technology in San Francisco enables proof of personhood through iris scanning, raising privacy and security questions. 

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: a miniature dachshund named Valerie is found after 549 days on Kangaroo Island, a boa constrictor gets a new home with an animal control officer in Texas, an Iowa museum owner breaks a Guinness World Record with her spoon collection, police in Georgia are on the hunt for an escaped goat, and a California man attempts to evade arrest using an underwater scooter.  

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Johnny Mac presents five intriguing good news stories. These include a runaway kangaroo safely captured in Florida, a Michigan woman reunited with her lost cat after three years, a Decatur resident who avoids speeding fines due to a typo on a school zone sign, newspapers publishing fake summer reading lists due to AI errors, and a man cleared after inadvertently aiding a gold toilet heist. 

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Johnny Mac shares five positive news stories to brighten your Memorial Day weekend. Highlights include a new AI tool called Face Age by Mass General Brigham that predicts biological age from selfies, Harvard Law School's discovery of a genuine Magna Carta, comedian Sebastian Fowler's 3,333-mile cross-country BMX ride for charity, the precision of a new atomic clock called NIST-F4, and the adventurous tale of a loose pet kangaroo named Irwin. 

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Highlights include Bruno's Restaurant rising from the ashes to feed the hungry, Katarina's Club serving free meals to thousands of children, and groundbreaking AI research predicting pediatric brain tumor recurrence. Additionally, David Rush sets a record for the fastest time to stack 10 rolls of toilet paper with one hand. Lastly, a nursing home in the Netherlands benefits from a program allowing college students to live rent-free in exchange for companionship, and a boy accidentally orders 70,000 lollipops on Amazon.

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In today's episode, host Johnny Macc shares five uplifting news stories. Discover how old CDs, like rare Bruce Springsteen or Prince albums, could be worth thousands. Learn about Fresh Kills Park in New York City, which is transforming a former landfill into a lush park with 50,000 violets. Celebrate the release of 31 sea turtles back into the Atlantic Ocean. Find out about 'Happy to Talk' benches in London created by an autistic artist to combat loneliness. Lastly, get inspired by Barbara, a widow who donated $100 million to Rhode Island non-profits, funding various educational programs and scholarships. 

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Highlights include the German Finger Wrestling Championship, where competitors risk dislocated fingers in a traditional sport; a Michigan state trooper returning $5,000 in lost cash despite the owner's suspicion; the Bronx Zoo's first king vulture chick in 30 years being hand-raised using a puppet; a climber on Mount Fuji who was rescued twice due to altitude sickness while searching for his lost phone; and two drivers in Washington caught using mannequins to illegally use carpool lanes. Enjoy these entertaining and positive stories from around the world.

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Highlights include the birth of the first Aardvark calf at San Diego Zoo, the opening of the world's first scalable vertical strawberry farm, and groundbreaking AI technology for detecting high blood pressure via voice recordings. The episode also features a record-breaking lawnmower walk by David Rush and the rescue of a rare blue lobster, now named Bandit. Johnny concludes with his personal strawberry success story and a reminder not to balance lawnmowers on one's chin.

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