#065 - The Best News of Last Week - November 28, 2022
🐈 - Meet the oldest living cat in the world 😊
1. TikToker raises $186,000 for woman, 81, to pay off her mortgage and finally retire. He saw her on break at Walmart and recorded her clearly having a bad day.
Devan Bonagura, 19, works for a third-party company that sells products to Walmart, and it's at the retailer where he met 81-year-old Nola Carpenter.
One comment read: "GOFUNDME ASAP" - before going on to receive 130,000 likes. Devan would honor the request of his followers, and later set up a GoFundMe to help Nola retire. Needless to say, the response was overwhelming.
2. Grandma and man she accidentally texted for Thanksgiving to reunite for 7th year
An accidental text message has led to a Thanksgiving tradition that is now continuing into its seventh year.
On Tuesday, Jamal Hinton confirmed in an Instagram post that he will spend this Thanksgiving with Wanda Dench, who in 2016 thought she was texting her grandson to invite him to Thanksgiving when she actually texted Hinton.
3. Flossie, 26, officially crowned world’s oldest living cat by Guinness World Records
British-born Flossie has set a new record as the world's oldest living cat. Guinness World Records have officially awarded the title to the feline, who was born in 1995. The cat has had a number of owners during her lifetime, but currently resides in southeast London.
But she’s still got several years to go if she wants to beat the oldest cat ever recorded. That title goes to Creme Puff, who lived to an incredible 38 years and three days in Austin, Texas.
4. Nano-robot antibodies that fight cancer enter first human drug trial
Scientists in Israel have created the first nano-robot antibodies designed to fight cancer. The first human trial for the new nano-robots will start soon, and it will determine just how effective the antibodies are. What is special about these particular antibodies, too, is that they are programmed to decide whether cells surrounding tumors are “bad” or “good.”
The trial is currently underway in Australia and if it goes according to plan, the nano-robot antibodies will be able to fight cells around tumors that can help the tumor while also boosting the capability of the cells inhibiting the growth of the cancerous cells.
5. Nepal Fights Deforestation, and Wins
This transformation is visible across Nepal, thanks to a radical policy adopted by the government more than 40 years ago. Large swaths of national forest land were handed to local communities, and millions of volunteers were recruited to protect and renew their local forests, an effort that has earned praise from environmentalists around the world.
6. Amazing quote from Richard M. Fierro, the Club Q hero that probably saved dozens of lives
"These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it," he said as he described the night. "I'm happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever they hell they want."
7. First Drug to Delay Type 1 Diabetes Approved by FDA
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug to delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes.
In a clinical trial of 76 participants at a high risk of diabetes, those who received the treatment were diagnosed an average of four years after the trial, compared to two years for those who received a placebo.
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