Ghostbusters Firehouse Honored, Fish-Inspired Microplastic Filter, and a Package-Stealing Dog

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Shoinning Mack with five good news stories. Good news for you like Ghostbusters. The Smithsonian has named the Ghostbusters New York City Firehouse among two hundred and fifty places to visit to celebrate America. I don't know if you're heard. America turns two hundred and fifty years old on July fourth. They point out that TriBeCa's Hooking Latter eight is still a fully functioning firehouse, but you might recognize it more as the home of the Ghostbusters. Yeah. If you head on over to smithsonianmag dot com, there's a travel website with all two hundred and fifty places. The categories include witness to history. There you'll find things like Philadelphia's Independence Hall, NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston. For Oddball Americana, there are things like the International Cryptology Museum in Maine and Connecticuts must visit Pest Visitor Center. Any food category. It's the very first Sonic drive in in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the birthplace of the Buffalo Wing in Buffer, Hello, Been there, and Peaquad's Pizza for some classic Chicago deep dish. Good list. I am bookmarking this one for myself. I like a good summer road trip. Good news. Ancient fish anatomy may hold the key to tackling one of today's most overlooked sources of plastic pollution, washing machines, yees, stay with me. Inspired by the filter feeding mouths of fish like mackerel or sardines, scientists in Germany have developed a new filtration system that can move up to ninety nine percent of microplastic particles from wastewater that's neat. The design mimics the comlike gill structures that fish used to trap microscopic plankton while allowing

1:36 clean water to pass through. The new device uses a cone shaped funnel lined with a mesh surface. And that's not easy to say. That was take three you just heard. Instead of particles slamming directly into the filter, microplastics rolling along its walls, preventing build up. The plastics are diverted into a separate chamber that can be emptied periodically, like a dryer's lint trap. Good news for an airline, Bad news for the man who bought every scratch card available on a RYE air flights. Not one single lottery ticket paid Ethan was on a plane and he decided to see whether buying out the entire onboard supply of lottery tickets would improve his chances of winning. It did not. According to a video, Ethan purchased sixty eight packets of scratch cards. During the flight. Other passengers pitched in and helped clear the pile. No one won anything at all, that seems I do. I'll get in trouble with the lawyers.

2:27 You make your own conclusion. Ethan's friend Vick, was on TikTok and said, we have not won a single thing. We've won nothing. You're supposed to match three. I can't even match two. We are told the controversy around Brian air scratch cards is not new. A twenty sixteen report revealed that so called jackpot winners are entered into a separate draw for the chance to win the headline one million euro prize. Winners must choose from one hundred and twenty five envelopes, with only one containing the top of mount. At that time, the odds of winning the jackpot were estimated at roughly one point two billion to one. People are baffled by a cash only toll bridge that has shown up in the middle of the countryside. It costs five cents to cross. A social media user came across the fivepenny bridge in Oxfordshire. They wrote, cutting through the countryside near Oxford. I suddenly came upon the Swinford toll Bridge, with chors behind me and no room to turn around.

3:17 I had to press on. I assumed it was just one of our quaint British acronisms and a bit of fun for the two old geezers in the booth. But no, they were there for the fivepence and it was cash only, no exceptions. You're even expected to come back later if you don't have the money. I looked it up later. As founded by an Act of Parliament in the seventeen hundreds, it's privately owned and generates an average of five hundred pounds a day. The person continues, I looked it up. Got a few five stars and a boltload of one stars. People who will love it or hate it, most ate it well. Good news, we found out who's been stealing your packages off your porch. The Oklahoma City Police Department shared security camera footage revealing who's been stealing your stuff off the porch. It's a dog. The video posted a Facebook shows a dog approach the front of a home, pick up a package in his mouth, and fleeing the scene with a second dog. More interestingly, the police wrote evidence shows clear, intense, flawless teamwork and zero remorse, just pure tail wagon confidence. The package was recovered. The police said these thieves were no bark all bite. There were charges pinning against the thieves. Charges include conspiracy to commit snack theft, positively impersonating master thieves, and being ferociously adorable boy.

4:28 These PD social media teams have a lot of fun. And those are your five good news stories for today.