Why did a stranger pay a dad's breakfast bill?

0:03 Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with five good news stories. In Texas, a man was left in tears after a stranger paid for his family's breakfast and wrote a message on the receipt. Yeah. Dad's out with his wife and three kids. There a Mimi's cafe. They were getting ready to pay. The waitress said the eighty five dollars bill had already been settled. She handed him their re seat. It was a handwritten note on the bill which said thank you for being a great dad. He flipped the receipt over. It read from a dad to dad, thank you for being the dad they need you to be. Regardless of who's watching, we need more men like you. Thank you for letting us all see your love for them all. It was signed from a retired Army medic. Dad said, I couldn't control my tears.

0:50 There was nobody watching. From my reaction, the person was already gone. It was just pure kindness. The dad, who had been wearing his hospital scrubs, had been playing a simple dot game with the kids at the table. I've no idea somebody was watching, Dad said, I see some of the most terrible things in the world. At work. But this reminded me that complete strangers can do miraculous, beautiful things when you least expected. It was just eighty five dollars to them, but to me it was so much more. These random acts of kindness are so powerful. There minus that despite all the bad in the world, there's so much good too. Boy, that is awesome. I love that story. A woman made a creepy discovery. She looked under the floorboards of her fifty year old house. That doesn't sound like a good idea. Amelia uploaded a video to TikTok detailing her eerie discovery. She said, I noticed there was nothing holding this floorboard down, so when you walk on it, it rattles a lot. Her curiosity led her to pry up the board to see if she could fix it. Instead, she found a hidden object in the debris. One of the items and Edward the seventh nineteen oh four penny. Then she found a gold colored book. It was filthy, she wondered, how long do you think it's been there. It's definitely a book, but they're not actual pages. They're really thick. I found other things like old nails and old paper. I'm tempted to look and see if I can find anything else. I'm left with so many questions, like why was this hidden there in the first place. She did a follow up video because this is TikTok and this was going viral and it's kind of fun. She said, it seemed like a normal book at the start, filled with old portraits, but things took a creepy turn as I went further into the book. She was shocked she found an old

2:21 photo of her house, followed by images of empty rooms with a dark shadow present in each one. She said, I can't help but think what else is buried under the floorboards. When TikTok user said, what if by opening the book you've released what was being held in the photos, another person said it's a vintage postage book. I have one with some incredible dates and pictures. That's fun. I love doing the show, all right. Nice job by the California Technical Institute. They have developed a new class of matter. Yeah, you can't just do that on any old Tuesday, A new class of matter. The materials are called I'm gonna get this wrong, poly atinated architectural materials. No, I think I got that right. PAMs PAMs when they're compressed, they act like hard crystalline lattice, work like a solid, but when they're subjected to sheer force or lateral force, they behave like a Newtonian liquid, or more specifically, like a grain of rice or a grain of sand, reorganizing their structure to accommodate the motion. Guiara is the lab director and said, we all have a clear distinction of mind when we think of solid materials. In granule matter with PAMs, the individual particles are linked as they are in crystalline structures.

3:31 And yet because these particles are free to move relative to one another, they flow, they slide on top of each other, and they change their relative positions more like grains of sand. What do you do with all this? The scientists like the potential it could be for soft robotics, biomedical tech, and protective gear. All right, we'll keep an eye on that. Meanwhile, NASA scientists back in twenty eighteen sent a mission to the near Earth asteroid Benu to collect pristine samples. It turns out there have never been more ingredients for life identified in a single extraterrestrial material of any kind. Benu carried all five DNA and RNA nucleobases and a ton of amino acids. The sample showed fourteen of the twenty amino acids contained in life on Earth, including all nine of the essential amino acids, blended in quote interesting ways. Benu's parent asteroids seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water. Benu was also found to be rich in nitrogen and ammonia bearing compounds, and the new findings indicate that water evaporated and left behind brines that resemble salty crusts of dry lake beds on Earth.

4:34 What does it mean. It's unclear right now, but it's pretty cool. Boy. The scientists are out of this episode. Cats are wearing hats for scids. Scientists are trying to use brain scans to understand pain and arthritic felines and how to help the cats. Scientists wanted to create a non invasive method to study cat brains. In previous studies, the cats would shake the hat off and chew the wires. The answer was to incorporate sensors into comfy, crocheted beanies. Professor Castell said, we have the idea of little knitted hats that would keep the electrodes in place. They're working to see if different stimulations would liken people help modulate the cat brain activity. The report concludes this opens new avenues for investigating chronic pain mechanisms and developing novel therapeutic strategies.

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