Who ate all the beans?

0:03 Hi there, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. You know, the folks over at the North Canton Police Department, they do a great job. They've responded to all kinds of things over the years. Well, last week, they arrived at a backyard to find a white-tailed deer tangled in a hammock. An actual hammock. Somehow, the deer had gotten completely tangled in the hammock. Officers from the department worked alongside an Ohio Department of Natural Resources officer to carefully cut through the hammock and free the deer. The deer appeared uninjured and was released at the scene without complications. The hammock, not so much. The police department posted online, Over the years, we've helped deer tangled in fences, stuck in ponds, trapped in places they weren't supposed to be.

0:47 This week, however, we responded to our first ever hammock rescue. In July, a man took a detour during a family vacation to Milwaukee. He wound up at an estate sale. On the wall of a hallway, something caught his eye. It was a painting of seashells against a dark gray and black background. He looked closer and noticed the signature in the bottom left corner. That signature said, Abercrombie 51. The man bought the painting for $ 30. Gertrude Abercrombie was a post-war surrealist painter based in Chicago, best known for exploring enclosed spaces for rooms and tents and shells. Imagery that reflected her feelings of loneliness and insecurity. She passed away in 1977. Her work has been having a long and quiet rediscovery. This painting, titled Alderman Merriam's Shells, had been created in 51 from shells in Chicago Alderman Robert Merriam's personal collection. It was given to a Dr. John Reynolds as payment for a medical procedure in early 1952.

1:42 After that, it vanished into a hallway somewhere in Michigan, and the art world moved on without it for 74 years. After the estate sale purchase, authentication was recognized by an Abercrombie expert, and yep, This was one of those magical moments. That $ 30 painting went for auction. The opening bid, $ 75, 000. I'd hate to tell the family what they had in their mists. Nice job by a program called Clear the Shelters. They have done what their name promises. The campaign mobilizes more than 100 NBC and Telemundo television stations, covering adoption events at over 1,200 animal shelters across 47 states. The goal is simple, match as many animals with as many people willing to give them a home. This past summer, they matched 135,000 animals. Meredith is the local executive vice president of original production. Meredith said, clear the shelters demonstrates what's possible when our communities come together. They've been doing this for 12 years. You do the math there, that's one and a half million animals that found homes. How awesome is that? Let's go from there to northeastern Turkey.

2:46 There's a local variety of bean called the kelket sugar bean. I will not attempt to pronounce it in Turkish. People in the region have been growing and cooking the sugar bean for a very long time. And last month, they cooked more of it than anyone in the history of world. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry, along with local government and the town, organized an attempt on the Guinness World Record for largest pot of baked beans. Now, the previous record. was 1,479 gallons of baked beans. The new record, 1,807 gallons. That is roughly 15,000 cans worth of baked beans in one pot. Now, to make this happen, farmers, culinary teams, engineers, and food safety professionals all had to team up. Now, what became of the beans? The Guinness record doesn't say.

3:34 We started with deer. We will end with deer. Researchers at Cornell University have figured out how to restore aging electric vehicle batteries without taking them apart. The technique is called direct electrode to electrode regeneration, D-E-E-R, as in deer. See, I had faked you there. You thought I had another deer story. Well, I do and I don't. You see, over hundreds of charged discharge cycles, a substance called the solid electrolyte interface, S-E-I-E, accumulates on the battery's electrodes. As it builds up, the battery's ability to hold a charge declines. Most batteries at that stage head to a recycling facility, but with Deere, the batteries get a chemical bath instead. In testing, batteries that had declined to 70 or 80% of original capacity were brought back to 95%. Can you do this from my phone, please? And my copywriter here added, the Deere in North Canton was unavailable for comment. Nice job there. Those are your five good news stories for today.

4:27 Have a great one.