April 12, 2026

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Johnn Mack shares five good news stories: Amy and her 10-year-old son Lorenzo in the Bahamas tossed a message in a bottle with contact details, and a year later a teacher in Portugal found it and connected with them. A missing page from a medieval manuscript preserving Archimedes’ work, including propositions from “On the Sphere and the Cylinder,” was rediscovered at a French museum, with plans for advanced imaging to reveal more text. Oxford researchers found European hedgehogs hear up to 85,000 Hz and are exploring ultrasonic warning emitters for cars and equipment to reduce road deaths. In Tennessee, a woman’s Ring video of elderly DoorDash driver Richard led to a viral GoFundMe nearing $940,000 so he can retire. Finally, callers can dial 867-5309 with area code 272 to reach the Cancer Support Community hotline, an idea backed by singer Tommy Heath.

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

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good news stories. A simple childhood experiment turned into something

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out of a storybook after a message in a bottle

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traveled more than four thousand miles across the Atlantic. Amy

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and her ten year old son Lorenzo tossed a message

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in a bottle from their hometown and Fort Old Bay.

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Amy said, when we first threw it in, we were

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excited to imagine what might become of the bottle and

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where would go. In my adult mind, I knew it

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was highly unlikely to be found. Lorenzo the boy, included

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a few details on the note, including their What's app numbers,

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the date, and their location. They had it out on

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a jet ski and threw the bottle into the ocean.

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They forgot about it. A year later, it showed up

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in Portugal. Maria, the schoolteacher, was walking her dog. It

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seems everybody finds these things while walking dogs. At first,

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she assumed it must be local because it said twenty

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twenty five. It was so new I thought it was

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from the area. But then she realized how far it

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had traveled. It was from the Bahamas and a year

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had passed. Maria called the number. Back in the Bahamas,

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Amy was getting ready for her bed. The phone lit

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up with a call from Portugal. She ignored it, but

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then a message came through with a photo. It was

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somebody saying I got your bottle. She recognized Lorenzo's handwriting

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in the photo. She shouted upstairs at the boy, someone

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found our bottle. It had been so long. He didn't

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know what she was talking about. Amy said, I started

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to communicate with Maria, and she sent voice notes and videos,

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and very quickly I realized this woman was kind and lovely.

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I never thought it'd be found, let alone almost to

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the year exactly, let alone go so far, and also

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to be found by the perfect person. A missing page

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from one of the most important scientific manuscripts in history,

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containing the work of Archimedes, has been rediscovered at a

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French museum. Victor identified the page. She recognized it as

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a long lost leaf from Archimedes. The medieval manuscript preserves

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some of the greatest mathematical work of antiquity. It's from

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archimedes Treatise on the Sphere and the Cylinder, specifically Propositions

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thirty nine through forty one. Much of the writing is

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still legible. One side of the page includes Greek prayers

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layered over faint geometric designs, while the other side has

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a much later illustration of the profit Daniel with two

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lions beneath that artwork. Scientists believe more of Archimedes' original

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text still exists, but is currently invisible to the naked eye.

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To uncover it, researchers or planning advanced imaging techniques including

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X ray and multi spectral analysis. The original works of Archimedes,

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who lived between two eighty seven and two twelve BC,

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were copied into a codex around nine fifty a d.

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The manuscript itself traveled to a monastery in Palestine ahead

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of the twenty four sack of Constantinople. It was photographed

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in the early nineteen hundreds and later partially lost due

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to complications from World War One. The newly rediscovered page

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is believed to be one that went missing around nineteen

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twenty two before ending up in a private French collection,

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where it remained unnoticed until now. Good news for hedgehogs,

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scientists may have found an unexpected way to help save

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you guys from extinction. Researchers at the U S University

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of Oxford to have noticed that European hedgehogs can hear

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ultrasonic frequencies up to eighty five thousand hertz, far beyond

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what humans can. You humans can only hear to about

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twenty thousand hertz. The eighty five thousand is even higher

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than dogs or cats. Now here's the deal. One of

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the biggest threats to hedgehogs today are cars. Researchers are

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now exploring whether ultrasonic sound admitters could be installed on cars, lawnmowers,

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and other equipment. The idea is simple, amid a high

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frequency warning sound that humans can hear but hedgehogs can.

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In Tennessee, a routine food delivery turned into a life

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changing moment for an elderly man. A viral video has

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helped to raise one million dollars so the man can

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finally retire. Brittany notice something a little a typical when

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she checked the doorbell camera and saw an older DoorDash driver.

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He's Richard. Richard was making his way up her steps,

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gripping the handrail for support. She said, this poor guy

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is struggling to get up my stairs to deliver my

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very capable daughter her Starbucks. She tried to leave a

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big tip, but the apple to allow it, so instead

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she posted the video from her ring camera on social media,

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hoping somebody might recognize the man. It didn't take long.

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Somebody on Facebook said that's Richard. She went to his

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house and gave him a two hundred dollars tip. Richard

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explained why he was still working. His wife had lost

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her job, their savings drained by expenses, and they were

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struggling to afford a medication. She launched a GoFundMe and

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went viral. It eventually reached nine hundred and forty thousand dollars,

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fueled by thirty two thousand individual contributions. She said Richard

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has not slept in two days because he can't quit

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watching the GoFundMe. If you're of a certain age, you

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recognize the phone number eight six seven five three oh nine, right,

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you know that one? If you're younger, there was a

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hit song in nineteen eighty one with the title eight

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six seven five three oh nine. Well, now if you

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call that number, which people of a certain age have memorized,

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it connects callers to the nonprofit cancer Support Community, and

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there you can receive free guidance, information and emotional support.

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Tommy Heath aka Tommy twotone, singer of eight six seventy

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five three oh nine, said the idea it came for

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witnessing how widespread and personal cancer has become in his life.

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He said, I have some family members who are struggling

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with cancer. I'm out on tour with a lot of

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bands and suddenly somebody's not there. When somebody's depressed and confused,

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they'll go, hey, I'll call eight six seven five three

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oh nine. Somebody's waiting there to help me, and I

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hope they smile at that point. Specifically, you need the

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area code c SC, which is two seven two eight

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six seven five three O nine two seven two your

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area code, and those are your five good news stories

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for today.