Nov. 6, 2025

The Cows that like jazz

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A jazz band, the Dixie Beats, performed for cows at a farm, potentially increasing milk production by 4%. Second, scientists in Spain discovered a 600-year-old vulture nest containing ancient straw sandals and other human artifacts. Third, a pub owner in England transformed her bar's garden into a mini soccer stadium to support a young fan with cancer. Fourth, a Californian YouTuber set a Guinness World Record with 534 Polly Pocket toys, inspired by childhood nostalgia. Lastly, in Indiana, a stray pig terrorizing a park was finally captured by rescuers and will be quarantined, vaccinated, and neutered.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Do you like cows? Do you like milk?

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Well good News and on Johnny Mack with five Good

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News Stories. Farmers have invited a jazz band to play

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music for cows to get the cows to make more milk.

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The Dixie Beats or a six piece combo. The owners

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of the cows read the jazz music can increase milk

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production by up to four percent, and they wanted to

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find out. So the Dixie Beats played a thirty minute

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set consisting of fast and slower jazz. Caitlin the farmers

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said the cows took a little warming up, but they

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seemed to really enjoy it. They all took turns coming

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to the front to see what was going on. Peggy

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the cow loved it. She stayed right at the fence

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for the entire performance. At first, the farm just played

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jazz on a speaker. Yeah you think, Well, that went

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viral on TikTok. So the farmers figured, hey, let's do

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the real thing. That could only be more popular on TikTok,

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and if we get four percent or milk, that's groovy

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as well. Meanwhile, in Spain, scientists were confused. There was

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a vulture nest. In the vulture nest several straw sandals.

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What's even crazier is the sandals got there six centuries ago. Yeah, apparently,

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six hundred years ago, a vulture went from its hunting

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grounds into a sheltered cave and dropped off a sandal

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called an agobia. There it stayed until Antony the ecologist,

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stumbled across it and found that many other human artifacts,

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Some were six hundred years old, some were newer, all

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in the abandoned nest. Apparently vultures tend to reuse nest

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generation after generation. In Greenland, they analyzed the bird droppings

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from a nest and it was two thousand years old.

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What else was in this nest? Johnny mack Well, a

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crossbow bolt. I don't know if that was used instead

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of a branch or maybe it was in an animal

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that the vulture brought back to the nest and then

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ate the animal. Now, because this was in a cave,

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it wasn't that eroded, which is part of the reason

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it lasted six hundred years. That's just fascinating. A soccer

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fan who owns a post turn the bar's garden into

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a mini stadium. Bedecked in Bernie FC. Justine loves Soccer

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turn the garden of the bar into a mini stadium

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with terrace seating, a mini football pitch, and an outside

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bar area with seats given to her by the local team.

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She spent thirty one thousand dollars on the project. She

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said the idea came after I bought the badge which

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used to hang in front of the home dugout. The

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director of fan experience asked if I wanted it after

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they got hold of it when they were resurfacing their pitch.

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They sold it to raise money for a young season

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ticket holder named Lucy, who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer.

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It was to help pay for her treatment. The seats

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are original from turf Moor's cricket field stand. Those were

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removed last year to make way for a new safe

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standing area. If you hang out in the back, there's

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an outdoor bar with a selection of draft beer and

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a football net if you want to kick the ball

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around a little. A YouTuber from California Guinness World Record

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five hundred and thirty four polypocket toys. Now, I'm impressed,

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but that doesn't sound like that many. That sounds like

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one of those record holder guys is going to like

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break that this weekend. The YouTuber said she had gotten

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rid of her childhood Pollypocket toys when she outgrew them,

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But ten years later, you know, nostalgia kicks in. I understand.

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Believe me. I've bought some Star Wars figures. I feel you,

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She explains, I began collecting polypockets at the end of

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twenty nineteen. I just turned thirty that year. Is feeling

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nostalgic thinking about my childhood and all the fun toys

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he used to have, and one toy that was always

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in the back of my mind, Polly Pockets. Something about

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them just made me happy. I had barbies, dollhouses, video games,

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but growing up, something about Polly Pocket is just so special.

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I think it's because she's tiny and lives in her

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own world like I do. Her advice to her younger self,

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don't give your pollypockets away. Right The record's five thirty

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four if you want to go for it and ruin

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her day. And good news out of Indiana they have

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apprehended the loose pig that was terrorizing a public park.

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Winking Acres Farm Rescue in Sanctuary, said the pig had

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been on the loose in Holiday Park for several days.

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Multiple capture attempts had failed. They also threw the locals

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under the bus and like, hey, you locals, you keep

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feeding the pig. Well, the thirty pound pig was captured

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by a team of rescuers. The pig will be quarantined, vaccinated,

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and newtered, and then they'll figure out what to do

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with the pig. Where did the pig come from? How

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did it get to the park? Nobody knows. If you know,

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let them know. Those are your five good news stories

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for today. You have an awesome day.