America’s Most Misspelled Words, a Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant, and More Good News

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. All right, today, I have for you America's most misspelled words. A website called Unscrambler, unscrambler r yeah, unscramble, lure no, unscrambled lu ruh uh. We should do America's most unpronounceable words U N S c R A M B L E R E r okay, unscramble ruhr dot com. I'm leaving all that in that website anyway. The lies Google search data from January through mid May of this year. The most searched word for spelling help this year was bougie b O U g I E. Number two was favorite American spelling f A V O R I t E.

0:53 Number three was through t h R O U g H then business tomorrow because deaf beautiful, knee sign before e and separate. They also broke it down by state. Florida's most search word was school make your own joke. Colorado's was color. Georgia looked up Chihuahua chi hua Hua. Louisiana was curious about restaurant. North Carolina and Virginia were both stumped by spaghetti Minnesota was searching for ukulele uk u l e l E. Oregon was struggling with diamond, and Texas was trying to figure out how to spell recycle.

1:34 There's a restaurant called the Long Table. The concept is simple and radical. There are one or two dishes on the menu. Each night, You sit wherever there's space, and you pay whatever you could afford. No proof required, no separate line for people can't pay full price. Everyone sits together at the same long wooden table, shoulders shoulder, and eats the same food On a typical night. The suggested base price to cover costs around ten British pounds. If you could pay more, you're invited to. If you need to pay less or nothing at all, that's cool. Two Last year, the Long Table served thirty eight three hundred and five meals. About half were paid below cost and ten percent were completely free. The people who can pay more effectively help cover the people who can't. One of the regular set. I come here because everyone can eat here, so you don't just find one class of people. A lot of people sitting here and paying nothing. But I've seen people in front of me paying double what's on the menu. Well, one night, they had panzerati, a Southern Italian deep fried cousin of a cal zone, served with coppanata, a rocket salad, homemade pesto, and thick slices of bread.

2:30 The restaurant was founded by Tom, a fifth generation baker who grew up above his family's bakery. He said his grandfather had a chain of twenty two hot bread shops and made a point of hiring people fresh out of prison and then putting their names above the door. Ian's Bakery, John's Bakery, et cetera. There are now two locations, but Tom says his ambition isn't mass expansion, but helping others adopt the model for their own communities. That's pretty cool. There's a new addition to the Bronx Zoo. A new foal has been added to its herd of Shavalski's orse. Those are considered the world's last truly wild horse, meaning that they diverged from domestic horses over five thousand years ago and were never domesticated. Compared to a typical horse, they're smaller and stock here, with a large head, thick necked, short legs, and a zebra like upright main No forelock.

3:15 That's the hair that falls between a horse's ears on a regular horse. These animals look ancient because they are. The Shavalski's horse once roamed across Europe and Asia. A human settlement pushed them further and further east till the only place they could be found was in the Mongolian steps of the Gobi Desert. By nineteen sixty nine, they were officially declared extinct in the wild. Every single Shavalski's horse alive today is descended from just fourteen individuals, fourteen animals, with the genetic foundation of the entire species now good news. Zoo bred horses were reintroduced into their native grasslands in China nineteen eighty nine and Mongolia in nineteen ninety two. The population has been slowly rebuilding. Fewer than two thousand exists globally, but again it's more than fourteen. In twenty twenty four, three horses named Zoro, Zeta and Epsilon travel three thousand miles by truck and plane from the Prog Zoo to a protected reserve in Kazakhstan. They were the first of forty horses planned for that reserve. Got a new Guinness World record for you. This is for fastest mowing of an area the size of an American football field, and that has been broken by the lawn Queen. Holly goes by the nickname the lawn Queen. She took a mower out to the turf Mutt Great Lawn at Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky, and moted a football field sized area in fourteen minutes fifty one seconds. I got to get her over to my house. You know what I think after I record this episode, I need to cut the grass. This for real. I'm not doing a bit, just reminding me I have to cut the grass today.

4:40 There are rules. The grass had to be at least six inches high before the mowing started. All hell the lawn Queen. And if you hear the doorbell ring, you might want to check your camera before you open it. A woman, Naomi, lives up in Sussex County, New Jersey. Sometimes I'm up that way and it's, you know, a little bit of the wilderness there. Her doorbell camera rang. Who's at the door. It's a a pair of black bears. One of the bears walked up to the porch, sniffed around, and triggered the doorbell with its nose. New Jersey Fish and Wildlife Services says black bear sightings have been reported in all twenty one counties in New Jersey. The advice from Fish and Wildlife is a standard bear guidance. Secure your food, lockdown your trash, eliminate antiodors that might attract the bears. But they have not given any guidance on what to do if a bear rings your doorbell. They only suggest don't answer it case you're curious. Black bears are not typically aggressive toward people. That's said, a three hundred pound bear on your porch, it's not something you want to mess with. And those are your five good news stories for today. Have a good day.