Harry Potter and the Profitable Misprint

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news if you've got a misspelled proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, because it might go for a lot. One that costs just seventeen cents sold for more than seventeen thousand dollars. What's the mistake? It misspells JK. Rowling's name as Ja Ralling on the inside cover and uses the author's full name, Joanne. This book was bought at a second hand bookshop in nineteen ninety seven as a throw in with a couple other novels. Apparently the book got passed around a lot, went around the world and then landed on a bedroom shelf. The uncorrected proof copy was one of only two hundred printed by Bloomsbury nineteen ninety seven, and Mark the started the Harry Potter phenomenon.

0:52 The seller was living in Bologna, Italy, and said in ninety seven, when I was twenty six, I had just gotten back to the UK and was living in Crystal Paler I didn't have much money, but I would like to treat myself to a browse at a second hand bookshop on Saturday Morning. It's nice profit there. Nice job by Christian Bell, who just broke ground on a housing project designed for siblings and foster care. For the past sixteen years, Christian Bale has been using his celebrity for good and working on his vision for a housing project designed and built specifically for siblings aging out of the foster care system. It's called Together, California. It'll eventually include a dozen homes and a community center, all to keep siblings in the foster care system Together. That's awesome. Bell's inspired to build a community after he learned about a number of foster children in the county and how siblings had to be separated.

1:38 There's a seventy five percent chance that foster children will be separated from their siblings. Wow, good job, Christian Baale. There. Colorado is home to the newest national park, The newly established A Mache National Historic Site is a former incarceration site that unjustly detained Japanese Americans during the nineteen forties. Is also known as the Granada Relafe Location Center, is one of ten such sites created during World War Two. More than ten thousand people were incarcerated there or between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty five. The site is meant to confront the painful chapter of American history, and because of this designation as a National Park, it will be permanently protected. The original buildings were demolished when it closed, but the foundations and road networks are still visible. National Park Service Director Chuck Sam said, to heal and grows a nation, we need to reflect on past mistakes, make amends, and strive to form a more perfect union. A couple has converted a forty foot school bus into a home.

2:35 Josh and Emily. They're in their twenties, their engineers. They do remote work. They bought a school bus with the intention of turning it into a mobile homes. School buses are cheaper than actual mobile homes and provided more space for the couple, who each needed their own office working on weekends and evenings. It took eighteen months to transfer the bus into what they call a schoolie, a term that apparently means a school bus that's been renovated as something new. Oh yeah, that's catching on. One schoollye is a bus turned into a hostel, or another schoolie is an airbnb. This particular bus is now called Aura. The adventure bus. It has maplewood ceilings, a shower, a full service kitchen, solar panels, and satellite internet. The conversion ended up costing them eighty thousand dollars, but they say, we don't have to pay for plane tickets or hotels, so we can experience more for our money.

3:25 Our expenses depend on where we park and the amenities we find. The southwestern US has a lot of land available for public use. We like to use that kind of land versus going to campgrounds, which saves us a lot of money. Some reviews came in on Apple Podcasts, much appreciated. One came in and said feel good tidbits, saying the review as I look forward to the host cheerful demeanor, the brief stories, and most of all, reminding us of the positive and worthy things happening in this world. It's like a few minutes of newsysand every day, thank you for listening. And yeah, the goal here is just, you know, a couple of fluff stories or not a couple five Hopefully they make you smile, you feel good, a couple laugh ones. I'm glad people are digging it. Thank you so much for listening. All right, our fifth story Today. Another one of these stories with weird stuff and a passenger's luggage today on the plane mummified monkeys.

4:13 Told you the other day about the snakes in the pants. Well, Customs and Border Protection, they're at it again. A traveler was returning from Africa. He told the customs people the luggage contained dried fish. Again, stop transporting fish on planes. What are you people doing? But an inspection at Logan Airport revealed this is not funny, but funny not funny, revealed dead and dehydrated bodies of four monkeys. The traveler said he brought the monkeys into the US for his own consumption. Some people refer to such things as bush meat. A representative of Customs and Border Protection said the potential dangers posed by bringing bush meat in the United States. A real bush meat can carry germs that can cause illness, including the Ebola virus. No charges were filed, but all the luggage was seized and the nearly nine pounds of bush meat were marked for destruction by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hi.

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