April 23, 2026

The Man with the Most Teeth

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Johnny Macc shares five good news stories: a 33-year-old man in Malaysia set a Guinness World Record with 42 teeth, discovered after counting and confirmed by x-ray, with no health issues. Police in Georgia used “a lot of muscle” to capture a very large, heavy tortoise that escaped a high school enclosure and wandered into the community. Scientists in South Korea created a spray-on powder that stops bleeding in about one second by forming a hydrogel barrier reacting with calcium in blood, aimed for battlefield use. In Pennsylvania, a postal worker named Bruce found a wallet in the snow and drove about 52 miles round trip to return it, refusing a reward. Near Nashville, an African oryx nicknamed Leonard has been spotted roaming, with its origin unknown and private ownership legal in Tennessee.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Man with five good

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news stories. A man in Malaysia has set the Guinness

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World Record for having forty two teeth, ten more than

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your typical adults. He's thirty three. He realized something in

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twenty twenty one during a family gathering when he mentioned

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that he seemed to have extra teeth. He counted them

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and found thirty eight. A dental x ray later showed

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four additional teeth that had not yet emerged. The teeth

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have grown in mostly straight and have not caused any

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health problems. Most people don't notice the difference until he

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tells them dead to say, you may eventually have two more.

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Police in Georgia how to use what they described as

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a lot of muscle to capture a large tortoise that

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escaped from a high school. The large tortoise wandered into

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the surrounding community. Yes, the tortoise got out of its enclosure.

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Residents spotted the large tortoise after it had traveled a

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surprising distance from the school. They called nine to one

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pint one. The police department was like, Hello, this is

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the police. Hey, there's a large tortoise on the loose.

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Really interesting, The PD responded. They wrangled the animal, which

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they described as very large, very determined, and ridiculously heavy.

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Scientists in South Korea have developed a spray on powder

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that can seal life threatening wounds almost instantly, potentially saving

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thousands of lives. This is pretty cool. The powder stops

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bleeding in about one second. It forms a strong hydrogel

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barrier when sprayed directly onto wounds such as a bullet injury.

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Excessive bleeding is the leading cause of death from combat industries.

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That's why the technology was designed with battlefield conditions in mind.

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The powder reacts with calcium and the blood to rapidly

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turn into a gel that seals the wound. Researchers say

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it can absorb more than seven times its own weight

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and blood and creates a strong, three dimensional barrier that

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can withstand pressure. Nice job by a postal worker in Pennsylvania.

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Bruce went beyond his normal duties after he found a

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wallet buried in the snow. Yeah, he's delivering in the

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mail kind of out by Pittsburgh. It was minus eleven

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degrees fahrenheit. Yeah, it was a pretty bad winter. He

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placed the wall in his car and finished his route.

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He plans to return it after a shift ended. After work,

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he searched the wald for ID and found an address,

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and he drove to the address to return it, but

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learned that the owner of the wallet had moved to

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another town. Rather than give up, Bruce, the post worker

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continued the trip and drove about fifty two miles round

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trip to deliver the wallet personally. The wallet belonged to

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a woman whose husband, Matt, said it contained about one

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hundred dollars along with credit cards, ID and health cards.

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Bruce refused a reward. Be on the lookout if you're

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in Nashville. People say there's an African oryx antelope roaming

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the area. The animal was first photographed by Lance near

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Old Marrowbone Road, you know the place. Lance initially thought

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it was a large goat, but he realized it was

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more unusual. Locals have nicknamed the antelope Leonard. Leonard has

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been spotted in yards, farms, and along the nearby roads.

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Local sayer reminds them of back in twenty twenty five,

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when ed the zebra escaped and spent eight days roaming

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another part of the Nashville area. Authorities have not yet

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determined where the orcs came from. Some suspect it may

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have escaped from a nearby exotic animal farm. Tennessee law

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does not prohibit private ownership of an oryx. And those

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are your five good New stories for today.