Jan. 23, 2025

Stroke Victim now speaks Italian

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Join Johnny Mac as he shares five uplifting stories: the Minnesota Ice Festival's Guinness World Record for the largest ice maze, a woman's heartfelt mission to return lost photographs to families in North Carolina, scientific insights on how sleep aids language learning, a British woman's unique case of Foreign Accent Syndrome post-stroke, and a humorous incident of a man locked in a department store after falling asleep in a massage chair. Tune in for these feel-good stories and more.
00:00 Ice Festival World Record
01:02 Heartwarming Story of Lost Photographs
01:58 The Science of Learning New Languages
02:52 Stroke Leads to Unexpected Language Skills
04:10 Locked in a Department Store

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Caaloroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with five

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good news stories. Has it been cold enough for you? Yikes? Well,

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the Minnesota Ice Festival has set a Guinness World Record.

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It is the largest ice maze eighteeny one and forty

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eight point eighty eight square feet. The ice maze features

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eight foot high walls and multiple twists and turns. They

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installed the record away from Buffalo. They had an ice

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maze a little small and only thirteen thousand square feet

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that record back in twenty ten. Robbie is the founder

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and CEO of Minnesota Ice. He said they started working

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on this thing back on December one. Gravel and plywood

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were spread across the field at TCO Stadium to protect

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the turf. The maze was completed on January fourth. Ice

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sculptures and lights were then installed prior to a visit

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from the Guinness World Records adjudicator. Robbie hopes the ice

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maze will run through February sixteenth. Depending on the weather.

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It's been a cold winter, it should be okay. Taylor

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lives in Canton, North Carolina, near a hard hit Asheville,

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North Carolina. Remember the storm's last fall Taylor was searching

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through debris along the river, hoping to recover some things

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from her friend's house. Taylor was searching along the river

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hoping to recover some things from her friend's house, which

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had been completely destroyed. As they sifted through the debris,

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they kept finding photographs that had survived the elements thanks

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to waterproof glossy paper. Taylor told CBS was a photo

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of a beloved dog. I found a wedding photo of

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bride hugging somebody. You take photos because you have a

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moment you want to remember, and so they just all

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seem special. Taylor decided to use Instagram to reunite families

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with the photographs. She says, being able to have that

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moment where you hand something so special to somebody and

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then also give them a hug, because they've likely lost

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their entire home in this situation, it's such a privilege

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to have an insight into this moment in their lives

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through these photographs and be able to give them back

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to them. She says she'll sometimes mail the photos to

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the families if they've left the area, but if there's

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an opportunity to hand deliver them, she prefers that hey

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do you want to learn a new line language will

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get plenty of sleep, According to scientists, A study led

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by the University of South Australia revealed that the coordination

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of two electrical events in the sleeping brain significantly improves

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your ability to remember new words and new grammatical rules.

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The scientists experimented with thirty five native English speaking adults.

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They had them learn Mini Pinion, which contains thirty two

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verbs and twenty five nouns, including ten human entities, ten animals,

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and five objects. Overall, the language contains five hundred and

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seventy six unique sentences. The language is based on Mandarin

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but has similar grammatical rules to English. Half the participants

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learned many opinion in the morning and then returned in

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the evening to have their memory tested. The other half

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learned in the evening and then slept in the lab overnight.

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Their brain activity was recorded. The results showed that the

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act of sleep being significantly aided in the learning of

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a new language that's fascinating. In Britain, a stroke left

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a woman with an Italian accent and an ability to

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speak Italian despite having never visited Italy. She's fifty eight.

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She was unresponsive one night, unable to talk, they brought

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her to the hospital. The fifty eight year old was

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there for nine days after doctors discovered she had suffered

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a stroke. After three months of being unable to talk,

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she woke up with an Italian accent and the ability

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to use a rudimentary Italian. She told the News, I

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spent three months after my stroke thinking I'd never been

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able to talk again. I felt like a shell of

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the person I once was. A nurse came to my

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hospital bed to do a routine check, and completely out

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of the blue, I just started speaking. She looked shocked,

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as did I. I remember thinking, who is that talking?

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I couldn't believe it was me talking because I didn't

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recognize the sound of my own voice. The more I spoke,

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the more confused we all became. It was clear that

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I had a strong Italian accents, and I had no

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control over the sound I was making when talking. Without realizing,

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I'll say an Italian word mid conversation, which is the

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Italian word for what I'm trying to say in English.

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I have no idea what I'm going to do about it.

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My brain just converts the English word into Italian. Doctors

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have diagnosed her with foreign accent syndrome. The term first

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coined inn nineteen eighty two by H. A. Whittaker, who

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explained that the condition is clearly related to central nervous

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system damage. While rare, well over one hundred cases have

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been reported. Yeah, this one's a little embarrassing. Gotta tell you.

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A man was forced to tweet for help when he

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got locked in a department store after falling asleep in

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a massage chair. Yeah, he fell asleep in a store.

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When he woke up, the shop was empty. He posted

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some photos of the store and captured them. Oh man,

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I'm locked in. So what do you do? You trigger

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the alarm and then ten cops show up and you

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have to convince the ten cops you're not a shoplifter.

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You're just a guy that had fallen asleep in a

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massage chair. Glad, everybody's okay. And those are your five

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