From Ancient Seeds to an Artisanal Cheese Heist

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good new stories. By the way, before we start, Thank you so much for listening. The show has done really well. It was my wife's idea, A good idea, wife, right, yeah, all right. After thirty one years, a treasure hunt that had drawn in thousands of enthusiasts across France might have come to an end after social media accounts linked to the treasure hunt said the token needed to claim the grand prize has been found. This is the Trail of the Golden Owl, based on a book of riddles published back in nineteen ninety three. Participants had to solve eleven puzzles in the book and a twelfth one that was hidden to decipher the exact location of the token. A message on the discord app said, don't go digging. We confirmed that the Golden Owl countermark was on Earth last night.

0:54 It is therefore useless to go digging, and a documentary posted on YouTube the creators said he financed that's the creation of the prize and owl made of six pounds of gold and fifteen pounds of silver with diamond chips on its face. They buried a replica of the owl, keeping the original in a safe place. The original is currently estimated at one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars value. In order to claim the treasure, the winning player would need to submit the replica along with the answers to all of the book's riddles. Curious to see how that plays out. That's fun, right, all right? I got a Guinness World Record for you, shaker. Here's this one. A team of Pennsylvania students broke the record for dropping an egg from a height of eighty three feet without breaking.

1:38 That broke the record of fifty four point one three feet set in twenty twenty three. These were high schoolers, and one of them told Patch it was a lot of video evidence and paperwork to compile over the past few weeks, but it was definitely worth it. Hopefully this record will be like our egg, unbroken for quite some time. You know, now that I do this show, the record's probably been broken like five times. So I want of those guys that likes breaking records. These things happen so fast. Scientists have grown a tree from a one thousand year old seed found in a cave. It may be the lost medicinal plant mentioned in the Bible. The seed was discovered in pristine condition. It had fallen from its tree one thousand years ago and had grown into a mature tree.

2:20 Botanists or examining it believing it may be an extinct species extinct note more that was used for medicinal purposes, even receiving a nod in the Bible. Despite being one thousand years old, the seeds sprouted after five weeks. The tree is now fourteen years old. It's ten feet tall. It's amazing. I've got a tree in the ar that I planted myself, that I brought home in a Honda Odyssey, and now I look at this thing, and I'm like, how did that fit in the car? I understand how trees grow. This next story is pretty scary. Imposts stole thousands of pounds of posh cheddar cheese. The UK is rattled. Yes, the British artisanal cheese community is upset about the Great Cheese Ice of twenty two. Twenty four. Imposters stole tens of thousands of pounds of high value cheddar Cheesemaker Niel's Yard Dairy announced that it had been the victim of a sophisticated fraud resulting in the loss of Cheddar. The good news is British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is on the case. He explained in an Instagram video that there were only a small handful of real Cheddar cheesemakers in the world. He called the theft a real shame. Everyone is working with local law enforcement and international authorities to track down the culprits. The business says, while the cheese may never be recovered, our priority is to share openly what has happened and to prevent it from happening to other cheese businesses. And good news, if you like baked potatoes, you would have had a great time at this wedding.

3:47 One woman did not have a great time at the wedding. She shared her experience on Reddit. She said she attended her cousin's wedding. She went to the reception and she was greeted with nothing but a baked potato bar. Every guest got to munch on exactly one baked potato with a few topics to choose from, and nothing else. She wrote. My younger cousin got married a few years ago. The ceremony was nice. The cowboy theme wasn't my jam, but that's what they like, so it wasn't unexpected. The recession was when it got odd. The dinner was a baked potato bar, just potatoes, one per guest. You could have chili, cheese, sour cream, onions, and or lettuce. That was it. No alcohol, no cake, no desserts except for candy bars. I wonder what kind of cheese. I wonder if it was cheddar.

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