Nov. 1, 2025

Should you keep the Ketchup in the refrigerator? Heinz has ruled!

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A pet owner discovers her cat nursing a baby rabbit, Christie, who has Stargardt disease, prepares to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, a water lily pad weight stacking competition takes place across botanical gardens, Officer Steven Harris spends his own money to help a deaf man stranded in Pittsburgh, and Heinz resolves the debate on whether ketchup should be stored in the fridge or cupboard.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Why the Air of Johnny Mack? Five

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good news stories. A pet owner learned that her cat

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had adopted a rabbit. Yeah. Jen noticed that her born

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cat was a nursing her litter of kittens, and there

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was an extra kitten. Except it wasn't a kitten, it

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was a baby bunny. Jen posted this TikTok and wrote

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Nature writes a better story than Disney. But she did

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point out let's pause the cuteness for a moment of education.

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If you find a wild animal, its best bet for

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survival is for you to leave it be. Fawns are

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left alone all day so predators aren't attracted to mama's scent.

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Mama rabbits do the same thing, often feeding them twice

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a day to keep predators away from the nest. At

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age nine, Christy was diagnosed with Stargart disease, a genetic

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condition that affects the central portion of the retina and

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leads to gradual vision loss. Christy's now twenty eight and

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setting out to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. She said, I put

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a lot of mental energy and trying to hide it,

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but it became harder and harder to hide The hard

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part of degenerative eye disease is you don't wake up

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one day and realize, oh, I should use my cane

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now for the rest of my life. She was invited

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and with some friends to hike up Mount Kilmanjaro, and

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she explains, my immediate gut reaction was no. The friend

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was telling us more about the trip. He gave all

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these details, and that it dawned on us this is

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going to be a really once in a lifetime opportunity.

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The plan was for eleven blind climbers, each accompanied by

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one sided individual, to hike to the near twenty thousand

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feet peak of Mount kilman Joro. The stats on that

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about thirty thousand people attempt the hike each year, with

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a sixty six percent success rate. For her preps, she

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had to focus on heavy cardio training, saying, I'm still

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working out how to use my hiking polls to sort

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of feel the ground, and I think guiding looks really

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different going up hill versus downhill for me with all

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the different lighting conditions on the trail. When I was younger,

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I really didn't know what my disease was going to

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lead to in my life. I didn't know what my

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life was going to amount to I'm a twenty eight

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year old woman who lost her eyesight, and yet I

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get to live independently with some of my best friend friends.

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Now these friends get to go out in all kinds

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of ventures with me, from backpacking the Grand Canyon to

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running the Boston Marathon and now Kilimanjaro. Meanwhile, in Denver,

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the Denver Botanic Gardens hosted a competition to see who

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could stack the most weight on a water lily pad

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before the pad sank. More than thirty zoos in gardens

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in nine countries around the world took part. The Missouri

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Botanic Gardens posted a video on Instagram of their largest

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lily floating upright under one hundred and eighty two pounds

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of weight, but Florida's Bock Tower Gardens beat that with

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one hundred and eighty three pounds. Third place went to

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the Huntsville Botanical Garden in Alabama, just one hundred and

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seventy six pounds. Officer Stephen Harris was asked by the

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Pittsburgh Local News why he would spend one hundred and

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thirteen dollars of his own money to solve a stranger's problem.

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Officer Harris said, we're supposed to be good men. So

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Harris got a call, Hey, come to the Greyhound bus

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depot in Pittsburgh. There's a man being unruly. Iras said

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he was just a male who was deaf and didn't

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speak English read English. So it turned out he needed

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help to get back on a bus to New York

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and eventually Montreal. They called in a translator police line

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and it turned out the man had stepped off the

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bus to stretch his legs. Didn't hear the call from

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the driver's time to go and watch as the bus

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took off for New York with his luggage and his

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cash still on board. Harris used his own money on

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his bank card to buy an Amtrak ticket to New York.

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And Heines has settled the debate should he keep your

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ketchup in the fridge or in the cupboard? The debate

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does keeping in the fridge keep it fresh or does

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it make it too cold? I'm on team fridge. Let's

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see what Hines has to say. Heines says, the best

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place to keep your ketchup to ensure it tastes best

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is you gotta know, right well, Olivia Lennon at Heines

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Tomato confirms there was only ever one correct answer, and

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we're happy to share with you. Heines's Tomato Ketchup lovers

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should be kept boy. I'm tempted to make a tune

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back for next episode, but that would be jerky. The

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best way to maintain the delicious tanky taste of our

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Hinds Tomato Ketchup is fridge, she says. Although we're aware

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many Hinds Tomato Ketchup fans have been storing their ketchup

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in the cupboard, we do recommend refrigeration after opening. And

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those are your five good news stories for today. Enjoy

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your French fries, have a great day.