Sept. 13, 2025

Good News about Free Highway Corn! Not roadside, road-on!

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Topps released a unique baseball card featuring a squirrel that interrupted a Yankees vs. Red Sox game. David 'Record Breaker' Rush set a new Guinness World Record for most wet sponges thrown to the face in a minute, with 96 hits, together with Jonathan 'Hollywood' Hannon. Groundbreaking research from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows progress in spinal cord injury recovery using 3D printing and stem cells. A decades-old time capsule, intended to be opened in 2017, was found by custodians at Smithtown West High School, containing nostalgic items. Lastly, a truck spilled sweet corn on Highway 69, and undamaged corn was distributed to locals at the Wet Mountain Fire Protection District.

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

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news stories. Tops. You know the baseball card people, Well,

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they released a card featuring a squirrel. Yeah. The squirrel

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ran on the field during a Yankees game against the

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Red Sox. They had to stop play. Max Fried was

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on the mound. He told MLB dot Com. This was

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the first time that's happened to me. My first reaction was,

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don't do anything that might embarrass you. I thought the

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squirrel was gonna run around, but it came straight to

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me and it went a little hole I created on

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the mound. Video from the game shows Max staring down

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the squirrel. Freed said, at one point, I think I said,

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all right, buddy, let's go. He just did his thing.

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It's definitely a little strange, but it's all in good fun. Eventually,

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the squirrel made its way back to Foul Territory, and

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it was last seen darting through the chain link fence. However,

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they made a baseball card out of it. It was

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going for nine bucks. It's already sold out. You can't

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get one. I mean, I guess you can go to

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the trading store and buy one. On the secondary market.

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You do you I think these Guinness World records are

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out of control. And Idaho man set one. He is

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David record Breaker Rush. He collaborated with Jonathan Hollywood hennin

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and they set the record with ninety six ninety six.

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What Johnny Mack. Ninety six hits to the face with

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wet sponges in a single minute. What are we doing?

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The previous record was ninety two. They previously held the

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record for most wet sponges thrown in one minute with

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ninety two. Then another team beat them and scored ninety three. Well,

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now the record's ninety six. To get the record, one

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participant has to strike the second participant in the face.

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David record Breaker Rush explains the real challenge. I need

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my eyes open to track the sponge and make that

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micro adjustment, but chut for a split second before the

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scratchy side smacks me in the eyeball. Then as soon

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as the water washes off, I've got to open them

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immediately to locate the next sponge. It's a NonStop cycle

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of precision. Time or just don't do this. There are

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other ways to apply your time. Like the scientists they're

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working on spinal cord injury recovery, perhaps even reversal. That's

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a good use of your time. A team at the

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University of Minnesota Twin Cities demonstrated a groundbreaking process that

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combines three D printing, stem cell biology and lab grown

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tissues to provide spinal cord injury recovery much more important

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than getting hit in the face with a wet sponge.

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The team created a three D printed framework for lab

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grown organs called an organoid scaffold that's then populated with

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spinal neural progenitor cells derived from adult stem cells in

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humans and in some science has skipped a couple of paragraphs,

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but in the end, the new nerve cells integrated seamlessly

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into the host spinal cord tissue over time, leading to

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significant functional recovery in rats that were tested. That is

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some good work there. Scientists in New York City Custodians

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found a decade's old time capsule. It was supposed to

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be opened in twenty seventeen. Oops that in New York

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custodians found a time capsule that was supposed to be

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opened in twenty seventeen. Oops. Students at Smithtown West High

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School started assembling the time capsule back in nineteen seventy three.

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It was completed in nineteen ninety two. Take your time there, guys.

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It was supposed to be opened in twenty seventeen. People

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forgot about it. The custodians found it in the storage

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room in the back. What was in it? What was it?

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What was in it? Well? The time capsule it self,

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a large plastic trash bin with a lid. You guys,

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didn't work too hard on this thing. It took you

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like forever to make it, and then you forgot about it.

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It was just a trash can. No wonder it got lost.

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You just put it in a nice box and bury

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it and put a plaque or something anyway. It contained photos,

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a nineteen seventy four calendar, a nineteen eighty seven banner

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proclaiming the school to be newsdays in nineteen eighty seven,

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School of the Year, a nineteen ninety two lunch menu,

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a student of the month certificate, and a VHS video

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yearbook from nineteen ninety one. The principal said, if anybody,

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as a VHS player, would love to swing by and

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watch this with you, still not over that time capsule?

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Come on, guys, all right, trope time, Why are you

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laid for work this time, will you see boss? Highway

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sixty nine was filled with corn. Yeah. Truck loaded up

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with corn overturned on the highway spilled its load. The

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Custer County Sheriff's Office set emergency crews responded to Highway

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sixty nine's mile marker sixty nine. You know, over by

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hillside just north of Reed Road. You know the spot.

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This happened at two am on a Thursday. The truck

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had spilled its load of sweet corn. However, any undamaged

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corn from the crash was sent to the Wet Mountain

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Fire Protection District, where members of the public were invited

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to drop by and take some corn for free. Residents

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were asked please don't block the fire station driveway. The

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two am accident was completely cleared by seven pm Thursday.

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But that's why I was late for work. And those

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