Butt Breathing, Bear Raids, and a Lego Up Your Nose

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. I'm laughing before we get to this first story. Hello, I'm shining back with five good news stories. All right, John, what's so funny? I told you about the ignobles the other day. The Ignoble prizes meaningless scientific discoveries. Here's one. Researchers have discovered that mammals can breathe through their butts. That's right. After a series of tests on mice, rats, and pigs, Japanese scientists found that animals absorb oxygen delivered through the rectum. This achievement is described as one that first makes people laugh and then makes them think some more fun at the ignobles. The twenty four seven lectures experts explain their subject in twenty four seconds, then in seven words, and then paper plane throwing. The UK investigated claims of extreme old age tend to come from areas that have short average life spans and a historical lack of certificates. And I found out the answer to the hair thing. A French study found that Scalpierre tends to whirl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere. Interesting. The Japanese scientists with the butt breathing were curious could humans benefit from having oxygen pumped up their backsides. Their paper described how internal ventilation offered a new paradigm. The team is running a phase one trial in human volunteers. Good News. Drifter, a cat is back home after sneaking outside and getting trapped in a sewer for eight weeks. Drifters three years old. His owners presumed

1:35 that he went out to check out the construction underway in the neighborhood. The family hung up posters, searched across the city, couldn't find it. They were going to have a memorial service, and then some neighbor kids came over and said they heard me outing coming from a storm drain over at the construction site. Drifters back home safely. Good news. We figured out who rated the refrigerator. Now, if you listen to the show regularly, you could probably guess that's right. Hey, bear bears have been pretty active this year. Scott shared video of a bear wandering into his South Lake Tahoe cabin. The bear opens the fridge makes a snack out of a bottle of jelly. That's like a stereotypical bear man. The California Department of fish and wild life say bears are stocking up for the winter.

2:17 They're about to begin hibernating in Idaho. A man with more than one hundred and eighty guttess world records added another title. David rush aka record Breaker rush on YouTube has set the record for most balloons burst with boxing gloves in one minute. The record had been thirty three. While he was training, he got up to thirty seven. He trained some more, got up to sixty eight. He said it takes sixty times longer to set them up down the pop them, so I had to make the official attempt to count his final record. You're never gonna guess this number again. I'll remind you the initial number was thirty three, and he took it up to sixty eight. The record is now three hundred and twenty seven. Wow. Good news for Norton. After twenty six years, they finally got the lego out of his nose. He says, I can smell colors now. Twenty six years ago, Norton was playing with some legos and stuck one in his nose.

3:07 He posted a video Lego stuck in my nose for nearly three decades, finally comes out. I can smell colors now. Thirty years ago, he tried to get the lego piece out with a lego man, thinking the two pieces could you know, click together and pull it out. He said it was like a rescue mission that didn't go as planned. The lego man also got stuck. Mom used tweezers to move the toys, but unbeknownst to them, a tiny piece of the lego remained. Norton said he's been blowing his nose in the shower for the past six months, per doctor's advice, because of the arid conditions where they live in Arizona. Today, I was blowing my nose in the shower and lo and behold, I blew out a lego dot that's been at my nose for at least twenty six years. And I don't know what to think of this. What are you gonna do with the lego? He plans to take it to the doctor and discuss the incident.

3:51 Those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it. See you if you would like this thing a commercial free there's a leg of the show notes to tell you how to do that, and please check out our sister podcast, Five Minutes of Gratitude Number five Minutes of Gratitude, Have a great day.