The Olive Picking Champions of....Finland?

0:01 Hey, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories and a question for you. How good are you at picking olives? Because if you're pretty good, the World Olive Picking Championship is held every year in Croatia. Ten teams from around the world compete to harvest the most olives in 45 minutes, picking each by hand. Each person wearing a traditional burlap apron to hold the olives before transferring them to a team crate. This year's winner. Congratulations to Finland. By the way, in Finland, you know how many olive trees there are in Finland? None. The Finnish team captain Petri was asked what it felt like. He said this year we wanted to improve on our fourth place finish last year, but winning was something we didn't even dare hope for. We don't have a single olive tree in Finland and now we're world champions. It's unreal. The Finns harvested 122.1 pounds of olives in the allotted time. The Czech Republic came in second with 106.7 pounds. Poland, third place, 102.7. Meanwhile, Diego didn't go from Spain to Canada to set a world record. He went to set the right world record.

1:07 He'd identified a stretch of closed highway in Quebec as the ideal location. It's long, steep and smooth. And on his first test run on September 22nd, he hit ninety one point two seven miles per hour standing on a skateboard wearing a full aerodynamic suit. That's not good for me. That is scary. That would have been enough. That would have broken the record. But he didn't take it. He waited five more days for better weather. Then he went again. He told the Red Bull. I never truly admitted to myself that my real objective was to get to ninety three. miles per hour. I was scared that it wouldn't be doable, but I realized I couldn't lie to myself. At 91 miles per hour, I wasn't satisfied yet. It was only when I got to 93 that I was completely ecstatic. Well, good news. He hit 94.34 miles per hour, the Guinness World Record for fastest standing skateboard speed downhill. Joshua is a resident of Queens, New York. That's where I'm from.

2:00 Joshua spotted a large pile of garbage dumped under a bridge in Crown Heights near Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. He did what most people do. He took out his phone and posted a video calling the city. I don't know if that's what most people do, but that's what my copy here says. The Department of Sanitation was like, yeah, this is New York, man. We're not doing anything about that. What are you kidding me? I might be paraphrasing there, but that's kind of a New York vibe. He made a discovery in the comment section of his own video. People were telling him, stop complaining and clean it yourself. He told CBS News, people were telling me, how about you stop making videos and clean it yourself? So he showed up with gloves and a rake. He spent two hours filling 10 trash bags. While he worked, several people walked by and were like, hey, you with sanitation? And he told them he wasn't. He was just a New Yorker worried about the state of his city. City Council Member Chi Osei plans to honor Mr. Service for his service.

2:49 Lismore is a nine-mile-long island in Scotland. It has about 170 residents. Until recently, the island's early medieval monastery, founded in the 6th century, was known mainly from local tradition and written records. The Historical Society raised funds through a crowdfunding effort that drew support from a significant chunk of the island's own residents and then hired archaeologist Dr. Clare and her team to excavate the site of the island's 13th-century cathedral. What they found... were six burials dated from between 650 and 1040 CE, surrounded by fragments of large carved stone crosses, remnants of craftsmanship, handmade pottery, toolmaking, the foundations of oval-shaped buildings, and a trench they cut across the ground, a thousand pieces of debris pointing to the production of precious metalwork, crucibles that once held copper, silver, gold, and molds for pouring it. Dr. Clare said the island was a thriving center of worship, craftsmanship, and learning whose importance may have rivaled some of the best-known monasteries in early medieval Britain. And oh no, a hornbill at the zoo in Amsterdam had a problem. Both its upper beak and lower beak were damaged by an injury, so it couldn't feed itself or groom itself. The zoo explained a hornbill without its beak loses much more than just a piece of its appearance. What it needed was a new beak.

4:04 The zoo partnered with a company called Amnovus to design and print 3D prosthetic replacements for both the upper and lower portions of the bird's beak. There had been previous cases of birds receiving a single beak prosthetic, but never both at once. The surgery proceeded without complication. The zoo waited to see how the bird would do. It didn't wait long. The hornbill adjusted to its new beak the same day. Within hours of the procedure, it was using the prosthetics the way a hornbill normally uses a beak, picking, preening, doing all the things a bird does with a beak. I'm happy for that bird. And those are your five good news stories for today. You have an awesome day.