Feb. 19, 2026

Thousands of Crabs Escape and make a run for it

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The Dave Matthews Band continues its eco-friendly initiatives with a new tour aiming to plant another million trees globally. A Mountain Gorilla family in Congo celebrates the rare birth of twins, raising their population to 59 members. A new braille label printer, the mnemonica dot, is introduced to assist the visually impaired. Swedish soccer enthusiast, Daniel, breaks the Guinness World Record by juggling a soccer ball for over 28 hours. Finally, in Northern Ireland, a truck mishap leads to the rescue of thousands of crabs, preventing a significant seafood loss.

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Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories the Dave Matthews Band. They're gonna tour

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and while they're touring, they're gonna plant some trees. They

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put out a statement. Since beginning the tour back in

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ninety one, Dave Matthews Band has incorporated sustainability initiatives into

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its live shows. They were named a United Nations Environmental

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Goodwill Ambassador in twenty nineteen. Over the past two years

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they've promoted the On the Road to Zero Waste tour.

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They've diverted more than ninety percent of fan generated waste

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away from landfills through reuse, composting, recycling, or donation. They'll

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continue that this year. They have also paired up with

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the Nature Conservancy to support global reforestation efforts. That partnership

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has already resulted in planting six million trees worldwide, another

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one million pledged in connection with the upcoming tour. Within

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the United States alone, more than a million and a

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half trees have been planted with support from the band.

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Dave Matthew said in a video, nothing matters as much

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as the survival of the planet. Planting a million trees

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is a small step toward a cooler planet, toward cleaner air,

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toward more wild places where plants and animals can thrive.

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When you buy your ticket to the tour, you can

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contribute two dollars to plant a tree with each ticket purchased.

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Congratulations to a mountain gorilla family in the Congo. They

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are celebrating the birth of twins the Bajinny gorilla clan.

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They live in Vitunga National Park. They now have fifty

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nine members after an adult female Mkufu gave birth to

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twin boys. Twins among mountain gorillas are extremely uncommon. Mccufoo,

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now a mother of seven, was originally part of the

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Kabreezy gorilla family. They suffered heavily from poaching. According to

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the Independent, the global mountain gorilla population has risen to

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around one thousand individuals, up from roughly four hundred in

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the nineteen eighties. Wow job by the conservancy agencies out there.

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A new device unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show aims

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to make Braille labeling easier for visually impaired people. It's

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the Mnemonic Dot cost you just under a thousand dollars.

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It's a printer that turns spoken words into peel and

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stick Braill labels in seconds. The printer's about the size

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of a small stack of coasters. It connects wiresolely to

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a smartphone app. Users speak directly into the phone. The

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app converts the speech to text and then translates that

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text into Braill. The printer prints out raised dots onto

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adhesive strips. No Braill keyboarder training is required. Congratulations to

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a Swedish soccer enthusiast. Daniel broke the Guinness record when

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he juggled the soccer ball using only his knees, chest,

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head and feet for twenty eight hours, twenty one minutes

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and two seconds. See Wow. Daniel took the record for

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longest marathon controlling a football mail division who is allowed

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a fifteen minute break every three hours. The previous record

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was twenty six hours, set in twenty ten. The new

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record again twenty eight hours and change. Daniel said, I

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want to inspire others to push their limits, promote consistency

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and focus, and show how social media can be used

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re elate for work this time? Well, you see, boss,

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a truck overturned and there were a bunch of crabs

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on the road. Yeah, in northern Ireland, a truck carrying

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as many as fifteen thousand crabs ran into a ditch.

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The driver escaped with injury. After all, this is five

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good news stories. But then there were seventy thousand dollars

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worth of seafood on the road and the nearby fields.

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The truck company owner called it a highly unusual scene.

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Many of the crabs, which were alive began heading into

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the fields. A team of ten people had to manually

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grab the crabs, beg them up and put them back

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on the truck. The recovery operation lasted about eighteen hours.

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They think they got ninety five percent of the crabs back.

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As for the other crabs, who knows. Good luck to you, fellas,

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and those are your five good news stories for today.

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You have an awesome day.