March 25, 2025

Ovechkin's NHL Goals for Childhood Cancer, Antique Love Letters, Whale Songs, Seed Vault Additions, and Walnuts for Brain Health

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An NHL player pledges to donate money for each goal scored to fund childhood cancer research. A couple discovers 100-year-old love letters under their floorboards hinting at an affair. Humpback whales are singing more, indicating a good mood and successful foraging. Over 100,000 African seeds are added to the Global Seed Vault to preserve crop diversity. Lastly, a study shows that eating walnuts at breakfast can improve cognitive function. Enjoy these uplifting stories and more!

00:00 NHL Goals Record
01:27 Scandalous Messages Discovered
02:13 Humpback Whales Singing More
03:02 Global Seed Vault Update
03:25 Walnuts Boost Brain Function

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Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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Washington Capital Store. Alex Ovechkin is adding even more good

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to his chase for wing Gretzky's NHL goals record. He

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announced the Greats Chase for Victory over Cancer Great spelled

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gr eight. He pledges to donate money for each goal

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he scores from now through the rest of his career

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to the V Foundation. The money's earmarked towards research for

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childhood cancer, with one hundred percent of the funds raised

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going to the cause. That's awesome. The plan is to

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donate an equal amount to his career goal total for

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every goal he sallies. So say, one day goal number

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nine hundred, he'll donate nine hundred dollars. Then if he

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gets goal nine oh one, he'll donate nine hundred and

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one dollars. You get how that works. Yeah, he says,

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I'm proud to join the V Foundation and support their

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efforts to fund life saving cancer research. Throughout my NHL career,

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I've met any brave kids battling cancer, and I feel

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it's important to do what I can to help save

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more lives from this horrible disease. I want to thank

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the V Foundation for all their hard work and look

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forward to using my platform and doing anything I can

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to help further the V Foundation and Hockey Fights Cancer's mission.

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Great job. He's also inviting fans to donate to the

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cause by donating eight dollars and he wears uniform number

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eight or any amount you'd like. You can do that

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through the V Foundation at v dot org slash grh Chase.

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A couple has found scandalous messages under the floorboards. Uh oh,

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looks like somebody's been having an affair.

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Uh oh. But the good news the messages are one

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hundred years old. The homeowner shared their findings on Reddit

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and explained, my wife and I are trying to read

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through them and piece together a timeline. It seems like

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some sort of affairs. The owner of the house we

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live in was a married man, but these are definitely

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love letters. Some letters explicitly say to destroy, which you

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apparently disregarded. They've hidden up in the floor of the

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first floor of the house ac sasys a below from

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the basement. Social media users are trying to figure out

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who this was. The only clue to the identities is

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the name Freddy. One social media user noticed he must

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have been a player because the handwriting is different on

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most of the envelopes. Good news for the humpback wells.

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They're currently in a good mood. They've been singing more.

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Doctor John Ryan is a biological oceanographer at the Monterey

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Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, and says the acoustic

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behavior of baleen whales provides insights about which species can

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better adapt to changing ocean conditions. The amount of humpback

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well song has continually increased, with their songs being detected

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on thirty four percent of the days at the beginning

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of the study and rising to seventy six percent of

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the days after six years. These increases consistently tracked improved

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foraging conditions for humpback wales across all study years, large

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increases in krill abundance followed by large increases in anchovy abundance.

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In contrast, blue and fin whale song rose primarily during

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the years of increasing krill abundance. The distinction of humpback

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whales is insistent with their ability to switch between domina prey. Meanwhile,

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good news if you fear some sort of worldwide catastrophe.

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More than one hundred thousand seeds from Africa have been

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deposited in these global seed vaults. That's the world's repository

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for specimens intended to preserve crop diversity in the event

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of a disaster. These seeds are from one hundred and

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seventy seven different species. They were sent up to the

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vault in Norway. Smart idea by whoever thought of that one?

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And good news if you like to scarf down walnuts.

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Scientists have told us that scarfing down walnuts can improve

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your cognitive function. That's right, if you eat walnuts at breakfast,

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that can boost brain performance. According to a study by

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the University of Reading in England, they found that adults

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who ate about two ounces of walnuts with yogurt in

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the morning had faster reaction times and better memory throughout

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the day. Can somebody run a scan on what happens

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if you go to Dunken Donuts? I can tell you

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part of my study. Should put on eight pounds over

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the winter because it's been five degrees out and you're

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not running ten k's like you usually do. Yeah, that's

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my personal study, but I digress. Brain scans shown to

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improve neural efficiency, while blood sets indicated positive changes in

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glucose and fatty acids. Yeah, I think my doughnuts study

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is showing the exact opposite of that. Scientists think that

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it could be the nuts mix of omega three's protein

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and polyphenols, which enhance cognitive function. And those are your

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five good news stories for today. See you later.