The Matchstick Eiffel Tower Saga and Joey the Donkey's Heartwarming Recovery

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Well watch out if you're trying to break the world record for a matchtick Eiffel Tower. A French enthusiast, Richard had his hopes dashed. He was told by the Guinness World Records that his twenty three foot tower did not qualify because he'd used the wrong kind of matches. He told reporters, it's part of my dream that's vanished. His model took eight years, seven hundred and six, nine hundred matches and twenty three kilograms of glue to build. I'm an American and we don't understand metrics. I don't know how much glue that is.

0:44 Sounds like a lot. The final piece was glued into place on December twenty seventh, one hundred years to the day since the death of Gustaf Eiffel. After that, he put the one forty fifth scale model on display and contacted Guinness and they said, hey, man, the rule stipulate only commercially available matches qualify for a record breaker. Richard said, they reckon that my matches weren't available for sale, so they didn't qualify. It's pretty astonishing and actually rather annoying. What hurts most is they don't acknowledge the work that I put in, the time I spent the mental energy, because I could tell you wasn't easy. So when he was putting this together, he realized the hardest part was going to be shaving off the sulfur from the matches. So he contacted the match manufacturer and they gave him sulfur less matches another word, sticks without the red part at the end, technically not matches. But wait, this is five good news stories. Richard heard from Guinness again. He said he was on an emotional rollercoaster after having spent forty two hundred hours building his model. There are one hundred and sixty eight hours in a week if you don't sleep or do anything else, So divide forty two hundred by one sixty eight a lot of time there. Guinness, this changed their mind.

1:53 Mark McKinley, a director at Guinness World Record, said, we're really excited to be able to prove it. We're happy to be able to admit we were a little bit harsh on the type of matches needed in his attempt, and Richard's attempt truly is officially amazing congratulations. Richard, a grief stricken donkey had a stomach blockage. Joey the donkey had stopped eating when his mom, Josie, passed away in November. Joey was so stressed he got a gastric impaction, meaning food no longer was able to pass through a small intestine. Jamie the Vett said, our vets rushed into action, giving Joey an abdominal ultrasound and conducting a process called gestroscopy, putting a camera up his nose and into his stomach. As well as pain relief, we flushed Joey's stomach with cola several times a day to dissolve the solid. We used six liters of full sugar cola day, spread out over three treatments for four days to soften and dissolve the impactions of his stomach. Farm supervisor Groom and Kaylee Yellen said, Joey'd been with his mom his whole life. It was a massive change from me. He'd become quite nervous, didn't want to be around anybody.

2:53 Every time we went to see him. We wanted it to be a positive experience. I didn't want Joey to associate visits from us with the veterinary treatments he was receiving. I used positive reassurance to help him along. I'd go in and scratch his neck and reassure him and then walk away. Joey seems to be doing okay, and they've paired him up with another bereaved donkey, Ben. Ben recently lost his friend Bob the donkey. Kaylee said, by buddying the two together, we hope their shared experience of loss will allow them to comfort each other. Their friendship is still flourishing. It's early, but their futurest friends looks promising. For example, Joey will lead out of Ben's bucket because he wants to be next to Ben. Then Ben will follow Joey around. The events remind us never give cola to a healthy donkey. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a series of rock tombs that are somewhere between eighteen hundred and forty eight hundred years old does pretty good range. There scientists that contained colorful mummy masks, plates, statues, and artwork. They even found a statue of Hypocrates, who as you know as the child god of Silence.

3:51 Doctor Mohammad Yusef is the Director General of Sakara Archaeology and says the burials that have been revealed consists of the remains of a human burial of a man with a colored mask, another burial of a young child, as well as a number of latent heroic burials with a coffin from the eighteenth family era inside an alabaster plot in good condition. They also found parts of two mascots of Isis, pottery saddle and pottery pieces with inscriptions nice job by firefighters in Minnesota. They helped rescue a dog that fell into Lake Superior. The dog was nearly overcome by eight foot waves on a lake that's a lot. Firefighters fought their way through the waves to find the dog, but struggled to see the dog Because of the large waves and limited light. The dog darkened color kept slipping below the surface. Meanwhile, firefighters on the pier with the dog's owner used portable lights and shouted directions to the crew to help them find the dog.

4:40 This all ends well, of course, The firefighters were able to get hold of the dog by his collar. At one point, the crew and dog were swept in towards the bay and passed under a bridge, but crew members in the boat reached them, were able to get the dog and the firefighters into the boat. Once taken a land, the dog jumped in the owner's car. You gotta love dogs. Ed and good news. If you have typhoid fever, Tomato juice can be effective against typhoid fever, say researchers from Cornell, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and estimated eleven to twenty one million people get typhoid every year. The Cornell team hopes that because tomatoes are widely available and affordable, the research gets people to eat more tomatoes. And that's your good news stories for today. Hope you enjoy the program.

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