Jan. 27, 2026

Man swallows stolen Fabrege Egg, Police recover it. Don't ask.

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. Brazilian civil rights lawyer Leonardo, dressed as Superman, visited children battling cancer, spreading smiles and hope. A study found evidence that kissing dates back 21 million years, involving ancient apes and Neanderthals. Lionel Richie's perfume 'Hello' was pulled from shelves due to concerns about infertility. Police recovered a $20,000 diamond-encrusted Fabergé egg from a thief who swallowed it. In India, a sports team lost 20 consecutive coin tosses, defying astronomical odds.

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

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good news stories. At the Child Health Department, people erupted

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into joy when a special visitor arrived. It was the

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Brazilian Superman Leonardo. He was dressed in the classic blue

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and red suit. He's six seven. He's also a civil

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rights lawyer. He spent time with children battling cancer, moving

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bed to bed to hold hands, spark smiles, and give

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parents a moment of hope. This all started back in

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twenty twenty two when a comic Con attendee secretly filmed

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him because he resembles Christopher Reeve. The video went viral,

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prompting him to buy a Superman suit and began visiting hospital,

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schools and charities at his own expense. In Ghana, he

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visited a prosthetic center where ampute children shouted Superman and

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pulled him into a football game. Leonardo said his mission

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is simple, spread kindness. Everybody can be a hero. You

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don't need a cape. Even one smile, he believes can

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inspire the next smile. Nice job there. Scientists have found

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evidence that kissing dates back up to twenty one million

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years ago, and that ape ancestors and Neanderthal's likely kissed.

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Matilda is one of the co authors of the study

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and said this is the first time anybody's taken a

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broad evolutionary lens to examine kissing. Our findings add to

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a growing body of work highlighting the remarkable diversity of

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sexual behaviors exhibited by our primate cousins. For purposes of

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the study, researchers to find kissing as a non aggressive

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mouth to mouth contact that did not involve food transfer.

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The results indicate that kissing is an ancient trait in

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the large apes. Kissing was retained over the course of

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evolution and is still present in most of the large apes.

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Bad news if you enjoy a fragrance made by Lionel Richie.

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That's right, Lionel Richie's perfume product Hello has been pulled

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from shelves over worries about infertility. Apparently, Hello contains a

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particular floral fragrance that has been banned in the UK

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and Europe since twenty twenty two. A chemical can irritate

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skin and cause allergies. Anyone who has purchased Hello has

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been urged to stop using it and immediately returned the

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product to one of the five hundred Savers stores in

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the UK. No word from Lionel Ritchie on this developing situation.

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Good news. Police have recovered a diamond encrusted green faberget

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egg after keeping watch over the thief accused of swallowing it.

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The thief gulped down the egg, but was arrested before

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he could flee the store. The police confirm the egg

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was recovered. It is now in police custody. Don't ask

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questions you're not gonna want to know the answer to

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that one. Police had assigned an officer to watch over

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the man while waiting for nature to deliver the egg.

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The egg valued at twenty thousand dollars. The egg was

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inspired by the James Bond film Octopusy, which is one

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of the better James Bond movies. This particular egg is

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set with blue sapphires and white diamonds and a flora

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like design. A small golden octopus is nestled inside, inspired

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by Octopusy. All right, heads or tails? Because people in

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India are really confused. Someone lost twenty coin tosses in

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a row. The odds of that are one million, forty

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five and seventy six to one. This happened at a

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sporting event. The team captain set, I've been practicing, but

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clearly it's not working. He said, that's the most pressure

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I've ever had because we haven't won a toss in

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a long time. Three captains have all tried and failed

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to win a toss since the last correct call against

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New Zealand in twenty twenty three at the World Cup semifinal.

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Since then, twenty in a row. One of the officials

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said it's the first time I've ever seen a captain

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ask one of the other players to come and do

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a toss and that player lost the toss as well.

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Those are five good news stories for today. I have

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a great day.