A chocolate tasting job, and flying hippos

0:00 A calorokas shark media man. The only job I can think of that would be better than reading people some good news would be eating chocolate all day. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Cadbury is looking for someone to join the team as a chocolate taster. You would get paid to test new chocolate bars. Cadbury made this announcement on World Chocolate Day. Here's the job description. You'll work with a team of panelists to taste products and provide honest feedback. You must have a passion for food, great communication skills, be honest with giving opinions, and eager to try new products. Your responsibilities include tasting chocolate products and giving objective feedback, collaborating with a team to reach an agreement on taste, using clear vocabulary to describe products, and knowing the ethical and legal compliance responsibilities of the position. Here's another one of those world records. A pair of Idaho men spent one hour eight it's in fifty two seconds. What were they doing? John? They passed a giant inflatable ball back and forth a total of eight hundred and twenty seven times to reclaim the Guinness record. David, He's one of those guys trying to hold the record for most records. He teamed up with Seth. They had originally set the record with forty one hundred and sixty nine passes in twenty twenty one.

1:21 I guess someone else claimed it. David said he had a fight through pain in the neck and arms and shoulders to pass that ball eight hundred twenty seven times in one hour, eight minutes and fifty seconds. That brought up his record of currently held records to one hundred and seventy nine, trying to catch up to one hundred and eighty one. If you listen to the show three days a week, you know how these record for records keep changing. But these guys are really into it and have a lot more free time than I do. If you're in North Carolina, they found a castle under the sand. No, not a sand castle, a castle under the sand, an actual building. It had been buried under four acres of sand in the Outer Banks. The castle was part of a miniature golf course built on the sand dunes in the late seventies. The date on the castle says nineteen seventy eight.

2:05 The shifting sands started to take over the mini golf course and eventually covered with sand. I guess the golf course owner went, I'm out. Who knows. Maybe next week I'll be telling you there's a windmill on the beach. A study examined that forty nine thousand older women in the nursing profession. It's claimed to be one of the first studies to investigate the effects of gratitude on mortality. Gratitude was assessed with a six item gratitude questionnaire made up of six questions, answerable by marking between one and seven. Some of the questions include, if I had a list everything I'm thankful for, it would be a long list. Another question is I have so much in life to be thankful for. The average age of the nurses who answered the questions was seventy nine. By the end of twenty nineteen, four thousand plus of them had died. They looked at those who had died. Higher gratitude scores were associated with a twenty nine percent reduced risk for death overall, while controlling for a history of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes, gratitud dude was still associated with a twenty seven percent reduced risk of death. This study suggested permitting yourself time of the day to feel grateful should be something similar to personal hygiene. Well good news. I know you're worried about the hippos. Can hippos fly well? Scientists, instead of working on climate change, they studied the hippos and have found that hippos can indeed be airborne for up to zero point three seconds at a time if they're moving fast enough. My friend designs planes and he once said to me, if you put enough thrust behind anything, it will fly. I mean, if you strap a jet engine to a hippo, it'll take off. The findings found that unlike other land animals

3:37 like elephants, horses, and rhinos, hippos exclusively trot when moving. Professor John Hutchinson, great name, I would use that in a movie, said, we're pleasantly surprised to see how hippos get airborne when they move quickly. It's really impressive. Little was known about this because hippos usually stick to water. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like this program without commercials, If you're on Apple Podcast, look at the app right now. There's a banner there. It says Calaruga plus click on that there's a thirty day free trial. You'll get the show without ads for thirty days. Then they'll charge you four ninety nine a month. If you're on Android or Spotify and you would like to show without commercials, there's a link in the show notes to Calaruga dot com slash plus. No trial there, but it's four ninety nine a month and the commercials will go away.

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