Stroke Victim now speaks Italian

0:03 Caaloroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with five good news stories. Has it been cold enough for you? Yikes? Well, the Minnesota Ice Festival has set a Guinness World Record. It is the largest ice maze eighteeny one and forty eight point eighty eight square feet. The ice maze features eight foot high walls and multiple twists and turns. They installed the record away from Buffalo. They had an ice maze a little small and only thirteen thousand square feet that record back in twenty ten. Robbie is the founder and CEO of Minnesota Ice. He said they started working on this thing back on December one. Gravel and plywood were spread across the field at TCO Stadium to protect the turf. The maze was completed on January fourth. Ice sculptures and lights were then installed prior to a visit from the Guinness World Records adjudicator. Robbie hopes the ice maze will run through February sixteenth. Depending on the weather.

1:00 It's been a cold winter, it should be okay. Taylor lives in Canton, North Carolina, near a hard hit Asheville, North Carolina. Remember the storm's last fall Taylor was searching through debris along the river, hoping to recover some things from her friend's house. Taylor was searching along the river hoping to recover some things from her friend's house, which had been completely destroyed. As they sifted through the debris, they kept finding photographs that had survived the elements thanks to waterproof glossy paper. Taylor told CBS was a photo of a beloved dog. I found a wedding photo of bride hugging somebody. You take photos because you have a moment you want to remember, and so they just all seem special. Taylor decided to use Instagram to reunite families with the photographs. She says, being able to have that moment where you hand something so special to somebody and then also give them a hug, because they've likely lost their entire home in this situation, it's such a privilege to have an insight into this moment in their lives through these photographs and be able to give them back to them. She says she'll sometimes mail the photos to the families if they've left the area, but if there's an opportunity to hand deliver them, she prefers that hey do you want to learn a new line language will get plenty of sleep, According to scientists, A study led by the University of South Australia revealed that the coordination of two electrical events in the sleeping brain significantly improves your ability to remember new words and new grammatical rules.

2:15 The scientists experimented with thirty five native English speaking adults. They had them learn Mini Pinion, which contains thirty two verbs and twenty five nouns, including ten human entities, ten animals, and five objects. Overall, the language contains five hundred and seventy six unique sentences. The language is based on Mandarin but has similar grammatical rules to English. Half the participants learned many opinion in the morning and then returned in the evening to have their memory tested. The other half learned in the evening and then slept in the lab overnight. Their brain activity was recorded. The results showed that the act of sleep being significantly aided in the learning of a new language that's fascinating. In Britain, a stroke left a woman with an Italian accent and an ability to speak Italian despite having never visited Italy. She's fifty eight.

3:01 She was unresponsive one night, unable to talk, they brought her to the hospital. The fifty eight year old was there for nine days after doctors discovered she had suffered a stroke. After three months of being unable to talk, she woke up with an Italian accent and the ability to use a rudimentary Italian. She told the News, I spent three months after my stroke thinking I'd never been able to talk again. I felt like a shell of the person I once was. A nurse came to my hospital bed to do a routine check, and completely out of the blue, I just started speaking. She looked shocked, as did I. I remember thinking, who is that talking? I couldn't believe it was me talking because I didn't recognize the sound of my own voice. The more I spoke, the more confused we all became. It was clear that I had a strong Italian accents, and I had no control over the sound I was making when talking. Without realizing, I'll say an Italian word mid conversation, which is the Italian word for what I'm trying to say in English.

3:50 I have no idea what I'm going to do about it. My brain just converts the English word into Italian. Doctors have diagnosed her with foreign accent syndrome. The term first coined inn nineteen eighty two by H. A. Whittaker, who explained that the condition is clearly related to central nervous system damage. While rare, well over one hundred cases have been reported. Yeah, this one's a little embarrassing. Gotta tell you. A man was forced to tweet for help when he got locked in a department store after falling asleep in a massage chair. Yeah, he fell asleep in a store. When he woke up, the shop was empty. He posted some photos of the store and captured them. Oh man, I'm locked in. So what do you do? You trigger the alarm and then ten cops show up and you have to convince the ten cops you're not a shoplifter.

4:37 You're just a guy that had fallen asleep in a massage chair. Glad, everybody's okay. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They may like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there's a link in the show notes. If you're an Apple podcast, click that ben or there and find out a little bit more. You have an awesome day,