May 13, 2025

Marathon Recycled Urine to Astonishing Car Recovery

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First, the London Marathon's female porta-potties are used to collect urine to fertilize crops. Next, eight seals are rescued off Block Island using new surveillance cameras. In Lake Champlain, a self-sustaining population of lake trout has emerged, leading to a suspension of stocking efforts. Then, a quirky burrow race sees 70 teams competing in a six-mile course. Finally, a British man unknowingly buys back his own stolen car, revealing an impressive cloning job by the thieves.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Well I didn't see this first one coming. Hi.

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I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. And if

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you ran the London Marathon and you had to pee,

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thank you. You see, there were some specially designed female

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porta potties and a team of firms from London thinks

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that using urine from female competitors, specifically those in the

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London Marathon, can help crops be fertilized. A startup company

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called pequal spelled exactly the way you think initially aimed

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to design a urinal style portable toilet because you know,

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the lines are longer than those for the men's for

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reasons we won't get into. So now Pequoll has teamed

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up with NPK Recovery, which estimates that one thousand liters

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of urine could fertilize enough wheat for three thousand loaves

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of bread. Hannah As, the founder of NPK Recovery and

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says urine doesn't have to be a waste product. Runner

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Susan told the euro Own News it's brilliant to think

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the nervous weeds of thousands of women are helping a

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good cause. Johnny Max says, enjoy your wheat bread with

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your sin which at lunch today good news for eight seals.

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They were rescued off Block Island thanks to a new camera.

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They had been entangled, and they are now being rehabilitated

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at Mystic Aquarium. They'll eventually be released back into the ocean.

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The Division of Fisheries and Wildlife had placed the camera

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at North Lighthouse to keep an eye on the seals

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to support conservation efforts in real time. Sure sounds like

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it works, the Deem advises, though approaching seals isn't just illegal,

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it can cause harm. Seals can carry diseases, and getting

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too close can put serious stress on them. Please stay

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at least fifty yards away from the seals. Meanwhile, in

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Lake Champlain, it is now believed that a self sustaining

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and harvestable population of lake trout are back baby. A

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decision has been made to suspend the stocking of Lake Champlaine,

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believing that wild born, wild grown trout will be able

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to survive and spawn to adulthood without human assistance. Ellen

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as a scientist that says this is one of the

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quite rare events. It was rapid and obviously successful. Lake

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trout can live for thirty years, so effects on the

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population from this kind of management will take time to manifest.

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Stocking began in nineteen seventy two. Eighteen years later they

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started controlling invasive species sea lamprey. Sea lamprey praise on

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the trout. In two thousand and six, there were ninety

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nine sea lamprey woundings per one hundred lake trout. Wow.

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By twenty twenty two that rate dropped to twenty three

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per one hundred. The idea is to keep that number

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at around twenty five. Seventy teams took part in a

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borough race. Yeah, what you had to do is lead

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your burrow by rope on a six mile course on

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unpaved roads and a single track desert trail. Now you

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might be like Johnny Mac, that sounds like a lot

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of fun, but I don't have a burrow. Don't worry.

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You can rent a burrow for the race. The recap

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were told that the race started as a madcap sprint

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as competitive teams galloped to the front of the pack

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and other burroughs instinctively attempted to keep pace. Riders are

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not allowed to ride the bar, but you can push,

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pull and coax the animal as long as you don't

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abuse it. Marvin and Buttercup finished first forty nine minutes.

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Marvel set of Buttercup. She wants to be out front.

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She climbs really well. And good news for a British man.

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His car had been stolen. He got the car back.

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But wait, there's a twist. He had bought back his

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own stolen car. I mean funny, not funny right. Ewan

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came out at the end of February and found that

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his twenty sixteen hot A Civic had been stolen from

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its overnight parking space. He was sad, and he wanted

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to replace the car with a nearly identical vehicle. He said,

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sure enough, I found one for sale, same color, same year,

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same custom exhaust system. The license plate and VIN number

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were different from his stolen vehicles. He didn't think too

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much about it. He paid twenty six grand for the

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new ride and says, I started to noticing some odd things.

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I noticed a tent peg and some Christmas tree pines

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in the trunk. I noticed some wrappers in the central

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storage section, all oddly similar to my stolen car car.

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He decided to check the cars onboard GPS and discovered

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the car had previously been to his house, his parents' house,

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and even his partner's parents' house. He told the BBC.

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Part of me felt sort of triumphant for a moment,

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until I realized, actually, this isn't a heroic moment. You

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didn't go out and get a car back. You've actually

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done something stupid. He took the vehicle to a Honda dealership.

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Technicians confirmed that Vinn was fake and the car was

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the one that had been stolen. The police in the

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Honda garage said this was one of the best clone

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jobs they've ever seen, so if it wasn't for these

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little artifacts, no one would have ever known. The police

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are handing the car over to the insurance company, who

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will either get it road legal again and in a position

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that could be insured on the original policy, or pay

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out for the car if it costs more than the car.

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I'm so confused. Those are five good news stories for today.

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Lock your car, See you next time.