Googly Eyes Mystery Solved

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news for a lonely sunfish in an aquarium in Japan. You see, at the beginning of December, the aquarium closed for renovations, and then not too soon after, the sunfish started acting strangely. It stopped eating its jellyfish meals. It would frequently rub its lumpy body against the tank. The aquarium posted on Twitter. We couldn't figure out the cause and took various measures because one of the staff members said, maybe it's lonely because it misses the visitors. We thought ninety nine percent, no way. But then they attached the uniforms of the staff members to the tank.

0:44 The next day the sunfish was in good health. Again. They took cardboard cutouts of the staff's faces. They tapped those to the tank. Then they hung the uniforms on suction cups and put the uniforms below the cardboard cutout of the faces. One of the staff members said the sunfish was popped among visitors before the renovations. It's curious and it would swim up to visitors when they approached the tank. When the renovation work is finished, I'd like visitors to wave to the sunfish. The aquarium is scheduled to reopen this summer. So Paul and his family were watching TV and they heard a loud bang outside and they were like, eh, some knuckleheads with fireworks. They went to bed. The next morning, they noticed their core window was shattered, and then their twelve year old Sun discovered a small, black, shiny rock nearby that didn't match any other local rocks. Nathan, the twelve year old, put a magnet next to the rock. It was magnetized. He explains.

1:33 I was looking around on the ground near the car, and right by the front wheel was a black rock that stood out from all the others. I wondered if it could possibly be a meteorite, but wasn't sure until we used a magnet and researched it online. Now, if you need to tell if a rock is a meteorite, here's what you do. You look for a dark, thin fusion crust on its surface. Check if it's unusually heavy for its size due to high iron content. Test if it's magnetic, and look for unusual surface indentations. Archaeologists are all excited they found a once in a century fined in Pompeii. The find had been buried under a volcanic rock and ash for two thousand years. It includes a private bath house, perhaps the largest ever found, complete with hot, warm and cold rooms, artwork and a huge plunge pool.

2:16 Gabriel is director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii until the BBC. It's these spaces that are really part of the Pompey effect. It's almost as if people had only left a minute ago. The bathhouse changing room has red walls and mosaic floor and stone benches. They found two skeletons, one a woman in age between thirty five and fifty who was clutching jewelry and coins, and a younger man in his teens or twenties. They had barricaded themselves into a small room, but were killed as a tsunami of volcanic gas and ash ripped through the town. An entire block of Pompey has now been uncovered, revealing a laundry, a bakery and the big house. It's believed they were all owned by one wealthy individual, perhaps all as rusty as Virus, an influential politician in Pompeii. The biggest room is the Frigidarium aka the Cold Room, surrounded by red columns and frescoes of athletes. A visitor could cool off in the plunge pool, which is so large twenty to thirty people could fit in it. Good news sort of if you missed out on the Smelli flower. Apparently, you know those flowers that bloom every now and then and smell terribly. One was happening at the Brooklyn Botanic Gordon.

3:22 The corpse flower bloom for the first time since arriving in Brooklyn in twenty eighteen. Native to Sumatra, the corpse flower is known for its height and carrion scent, which it uses to attract pollinators. Gardner Chris noticed the bloom happening around New Year's Eve. It only lasted a few days. He explains, it's the first time it happened here, and it's not going to happen next year. It's going to be several years before it happens again. And good news and update on the mysterious googly eyes and the Oregon City of Bend. Jeff is the founder of a group called Guardian Group that works to combat human trafficking. He said that he used ducta to attack the googly eyes on two sculptures, and that for him they serve as a respite from the emotional toll of his work. He explained, it's a place for me to cope with some pretty heavy stuff. He didn't think the googly eyes would receive that much attention that he went to city offices to offer to pay for any damages. The city didn't immediately respond.

4:17 The city has said that you know, they're not like trying to be bad guys. They're just trying to explain that the adhesives can do damage to the art collections, So you know, can you just cut it out. They're not like mad about it, just don't ruin the art, that's fair. Keith says. I think the biggest thing for me is just to get a laugh when I come up from these roundabouts and I see people laughing, like hysterically laughing at these makes for a good time. And those are your five good news stories for today. Hey, if you would like the program without the commercials, like I get it, I get it, but like I got a heating bill. Do you know what the heating bill is this month? Yeah, So if you'd like the program without commercials. There's a link in the show notes. I'll explain how you do it. Short version five bucks a month. If you're on Apple Podcasts, there's a banner there it says uninterrupted listening. Click on that and for five bucks a month, no commercials, and on Apple you get a thirty day free trial. So why wouldn't you try it anyway?

5:05 Just for the thirty days free Right in day twenty nine, just be like, eh, I get it, totally get it. Have a great day.