A chocolate tasting job, and flying hippos

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A calorokas shark media man. The
only job I can think of that would

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be better than reading people some good
news would be eating chocolate all day.

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Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. Cadbury is looking for

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someone to join the team as a
chocolate taster. You would get paid to

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test new chocolate bars. Cadbury made
this announcement on World Chocolate Day. Here's

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the job description. You'll work with
a team of panelists to taste products and

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provide honest feedback. You must have
a passion for food, great communication skills,

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be honest with giving opinions, and
eager to try new products. Your

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responsibilities include tasting chocolate products and giving
objective feedback, collaborating with a team to

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reach an agreement on taste, using
clear vocabulary to describe products, and knowing

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the ethical and legal compliance responsibilities of
the position. Here's another one of those

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world records. A pair of Idaho
men spent one hour eight it's in fifty

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two seconds. What were they doing? John? They passed a giant inflatable

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ball back and forth a total of
eight hundred and twenty seven times to reclaim

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the Guinness record. David, He's
one of those guys trying to hold the

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record for most records. He teamed
up with Seth. They had originally set

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the record with forty one hundred and
sixty nine passes in twenty twenty one.

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I guess someone else claimed it.
David said he had a fight through pain

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in the neck and arms and shoulders
to pass that ball eight hundred twenty seven

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times in one hour, eight minutes
and fifty seconds. That brought up his

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record of currently held records to one
hundred and seventy nine, trying to catch

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up to one hundred and eighty one. If you listen to the show three

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days a week, you know how
these record for records keep changing. But

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these guys are really into it and
have a lot more free time than I

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do. If you're in North Carolina, they found a castle under the sand.

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No, not a sand castle,
a castle under the sand, an

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actual building. It had been buried
under four acres of sand in the Outer

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Banks. The castle was part of
a miniature golf course built on the sand

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dunes in the late seventies. The
date on the castle says nineteen seventy eight.

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The shifting sands started to take over
the mini golf course and eventually covered

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with sand. I guess the golf
course owner went, I'm out. Who

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knows. Maybe next week I'll be
telling you there's a windmill on the beach.

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A study examined that forty nine thousand
older women in the nursing profession.

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It's claimed to be one of the
first studies to investigate the effects of gratitude

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on mortality. Gratitude was assessed with
a six item gratitude questionnaire made up of

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six questions, answerable by marking between
one and seven. Some of the questions

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include, if I had a list
everything I'm thankful for, it would be

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a long list. Another question is
I have so much in life to be

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thankful for. The average age of
the nurses who answered the questions was seventy

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nine. By the end of twenty
nineteen, four thousand plus of them had

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died. They looked at those who
had died. Higher gratitude scores were associated

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with a twenty nine percent reduced risk
for death overall, while controlling for a

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history of heart disease, stroke,
cancer, and diabetes, gratitud dude was

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still associated with a twenty seven percent
reduced risk of death. This study suggested

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permitting yourself time of the day to
feel grateful should be something similar to personal

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hygiene. Well good news. I
know you're worried about the hippos. Can

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hippos fly well? Scientists, instead
of working on climate change, they studied

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the hippos and have found that hippos
can indeed be airborne for up to zero

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point three seconds at a time if
they're moving fast enough. My friend designs

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planes and he once said to me, if you put enough thrust behind anything,

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it will fly. I mean,
if you strap a jet engine to

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a hippo, it'll take off.
The findings found that unlike other land animals

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like elephants, horses, and rhinos, hippos exclusively trot when moving. Professor

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John Hutchinson, great name, I
would use that in a movie, said,

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we're pleasantly surprised to see how hippos
get airborne when they move quickly.

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It's really impressive. Little was known
about this because hippos usually stick to water.

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And those are your five good news
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