Nov. 15, 2025

Cow escapes slaughter, hides out in flock of 200 sheep

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: a World War II veteran's Purple Heart is returned to his family in Illinois after decades in a safe deposit box; 374 bagpipers in Melbourne set a world record; scientists in England develop a groundbreaking gel to repair and regenerate dental enamel; a cow in Germany escapes slaughter and befriends a flock of sheep; and a new species of bee with devil-like facial horns is discovered in Australia.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good do stories good news from during the week. A

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purple heart that belonged to a World War II veteran

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from Illinois. It had spent decades in a safe deposit box.

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It was a returned to his family in time for

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Veterans Day. The purple heart was awarded to US Army

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rifleman James Bennett during World War Two and ended up

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in the possession of Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frericks as

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part of Operation Purple Heart, a program that Michael launched

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to return military medals from abandoned safe deposit boxes to

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their rightful owners. He explained, we have to do a

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bit of homework detective work out there. We worked with

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the media. Chicago Tribune helped us track down some of

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these families because it's not always easy. Mister Bennett passed

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away in nineteen ninety, age seventy six. His wife passed

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away seven years later. Their niece, Patty, said she didn't

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know about the safety deposit box until she was contacted

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about the purple heart. She explained, when my aunt and

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uncle passed, a lot of the items were also passed on.

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I didn't know about this. This is exciting. He was

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a really great guy. I'm going to display it at

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home and I want to take a picture and send

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it to all the relatives that are left alive and

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share it with them too. And I hope this encourages

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other people to look into getting their purple hearts from

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their family members. In Australia, three hundred and seventy four

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bagpiper has played acdc's It's a Long Way to the

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Top If you want a rock and roll that of

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course broke the world record. Congratulations to the Great Melbourne

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Bagpipe Bash. They broke the record for largest bagpipe ensemble,

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the previous record three hundred and thirty three. Good news

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if you host a podcast and eat chocolate all the time.

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Scientists in England have developed a new jail that can

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repair and regenerate dental enamel that could significantly change the

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way tootsak is treated. The gel can be applied quickly,

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kind of like fluoride. This is awesome, but it's fluoride free.

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It mimics the natural proteins that guide enamel formation in infancy.

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Once applied, the gael forms a thin, strong layer over

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the tooth surface, filling cracks and defects. It acts as

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a scaffold, drawing calcium and phosphate ions from saliva and

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promoting the growth of new mineral that integrates with underlying

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tissue that allows regenerated enamel to recover both the structure

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and properties of natural healthy enamel. Awesome, good job, scientists.

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Good news for a cow in Germany. The cow was

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on its way to be slaughtered. That's not the good news,

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quite the opposite. The cow escapes while being transported. The

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cow spent about ten weeks wandering in the woods and

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came to be friends and lived with a flock of

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two hundred sheep. A local shepherd told the newspaper she

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sniffed the sheep, mingled with the sheep and seems to

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feel right at home with the sheep. She now behaves

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almost like a sheep, and she's taken to the herd

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without any problems. The sheep eventually moved on from the

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pasture as sheep do. The cow stayed behind. The cow

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is tranquilized. Was going to be a return of the owner,

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but the owner said, you know what, the cow ere

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in this one. The cow was turned over to the

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local Animal Welfare Association. In a social media post, they

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said of the cow, may her future be filled with happiness,

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care and a care free life in Australia where every

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third thing will kill you. Scientists have identified a new

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species of solitary bee, notable for its distinctive, devil like

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facial horns. They've named it meg a chili lucifer. It

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was discovered in the Goldfields region. It's the first new

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species added to the genus in two decades. Doctor Kit

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Prendergrass of Kirtin University made the discovery and said the

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bee's appearance stood out, explaining the female had these incredible

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little horns on her face. Doctor Kit explained she happened

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to be watching the Netflix series Lucifer while writing up

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the species description and in her words, the name fit

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just perfectly. And those are five good news stories for today.

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Have a good one.