July 6, 2025

This Bear has better insurance than me!

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A porcupine stowed away on a wrecked plane in British Columbia, humanoid robots playing soccer in China, an Alaska brown bear in Minnesota getting a metal tooth crown, a rivalry between historic restaurants in Madrid, and an 11-year-old girl in Florida finding a message in a bottle that traveled from Hawaii.

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Callaroga Shark Media by there Jenny Mack with five good

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news stories planes, trains, automobiles and porcupines, or as Samuel L.

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Jackson may have said, I have had it with these

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porcupines on this plane. Wildlife rescuers in British Columbia wound

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up caring for a porcupine that had stowed away an

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erecked plane, and then the porcupine found himself on a

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helicopter and then a boat. Interior Wildlife said a wreck

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recovery company had transported a wrecked plane across Canada five

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hundred and thirty eight miles via helicopter, boat and trailer.

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It was only once that the wreckage got to the

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company's flat deck that they found the porcupine. On social media,

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Interial Wildlife said, with the help of our supporting veterinarian,

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we lightly sedated the porcupine via the rear end, which

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was the only spot we could get to in through

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the small plane window. We then pulled it out gently

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by the front arms and a few minutes later no

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quill shed save for the humans involved and the animal itself.

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At the time of this recording, and they were trying

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to figure out all right, where do you put the porcupine?

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Do you like soccer? Four teams of humanoid robots played

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some three on three soccer in China recently. The robots

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were equipped with advanced visual sensors. They were able to

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identify the ball and navigate the field with agility. You

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know we're gonna come back in twenty years. We're just

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gonna be watching robo soccer. The innovation here the robots

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were designed to stand up on their own after falling over.

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Chang Howe is the founder of Booster Robotics and said,

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in the future, we may arrange for robots to play

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football with humans, but that means we must ensure that

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the robots are completely safe. For example, a robot and

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a human could play a match where winning doesn't matter,

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but real offensive and defensive interactions take place. That would

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help audiences build trust and understand that robots are safe.

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Good news for an Alaska brown bear that lives in Minnesota.

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He's got his tooth taking care of. He's got a

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new metal crown in obviously better insurance than I have.

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The eight hundred pound bear underwent an hour long procedure

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by doctor Grace Brown. Doctor Brown had previously performed a

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root canal on the same tooth on the same bear. Well,

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obviously i'll leave that in. Tundra reinjured the tooth and

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the decision was made to give Tundra the bear a new,

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stronger crown. The titanium alloy crown was made by Creature

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Crowns of Post Falls, Idaho. There's a business. Doctor Brown said,

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this is the largest crown ever created in the world.

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This is a little scary. Tundra. The six year old

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bear stands about eight feet tall. Because of the bear

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is so big, they had an armed guard in the

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room just in case the bear woke up under the procedure,

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but the bear did not. It's back in its habitat,

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behaving and eating normally. If you're in Madrid and you're

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eating at the world's oldest restaurant, well hold on, there

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might be an even older one. There's two places going

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at it. Sabrino de Botin holds the Guinness World Record

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as the world's oldest restaurant three hundred years old, but

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the outskirts of Madrid, a place called Casa Pedro, says

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they're even older. Irene is the manager and the eighth

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generation owner and says it's really frustrating when you say, yeah,

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we've been around since seventeen oh two, but you can't

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prove it. If you look at the restaurant's logo, it

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says Casa Pedro since seventeen oh two. So we said,

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let's try to prove it. She remembers her grandfather swearing

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by Casa Pedro's age. They hired a historian. So far

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they've turned up documents showing that it's been around since

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at least seventeen fifty. Over at Botein, they got the

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Guinness Award in nineteen eighty seven and admit it has

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held business now. The catch here is you have to

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be in the same location using the same name. Because

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of that, there's some other places place in Paris from

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sixteen eighty six, one in Beijing from fourteen sixteen, where

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the White House Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island from sixteen

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seventy three are not eligible for the day. I guess

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they've changed their name over time. I was recently in

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Dublin and had a couple of pints at a place

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called the Brazen Head, Ireland's oldest pub. They're claiming eleven

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ninety eight, so I don't know. Fun story anyway, Another

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message in a bottle. This one showed up in Florida

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and eleven year old girl vacationing with her family found

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one that had supposed and thrown into the ocean eight

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years earlier in Hawaii. Josie told local TV is just

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walking and the waves were coming up and it was

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washing on shore. The wave went like a crash on

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each other in back. So I grabbed it really quickly

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and I showed my mom in the bottle of note

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that said, hello, people who found this, You'll be happy

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that you found this Why because you will know me

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with this number. Mom sent a text message to the number.

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She soon got a response from a twenty one year

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old Hawaiian woman who told her she and her brother

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had thrown the bottle in the ocean off Owahu eight

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years ago. That woman said it was super fun to

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see that our bottle ended up all the way in

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Florida and that they ended up reaching out to us.

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Definitely didn't expect that to happen now. A local meteorologist

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said it seems unlikely that bottle floated all the way

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from Why to Florida, but it is technically possible. Dude,

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just go with the story. This isn't four good news

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stories and johnn de books one. Let's just have a

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nice smile story. A girl found a letter that traveled

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from WAYI to Florida. You gotta believe. Let's just have

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a good day and enjoy that story. Huh. All right,

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you guys, have a good one. I'll see you.