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Hello. I won a prize from a claw machine.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up? I have good news. I have good news for you.

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A few episodes back, I talked about a sheep that was stranded in the foot of a cliff in Scotland for two years.

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A kayaker had seen the sheep and then a year later saw the same sheep and was like, oh, that's sad.

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The sheep was following along the shoreline being like, hey, rescue me. What the hell?

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Like, I'm stuck here. Where's the rest of my flock?

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But do not fear sheep. Your flock was on the way as five local farmers got together with a bunch of heavy equipment and rescued the sheep.

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This is after rescue attempts were deemed like way too dangerous.

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And the farmers also agreed that was dumb and dangerous.

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But they rescued the sheep. They named her Fiona, and she is apparently in shockingly good health.

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She just needs a good shearing, some love and rest.

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And she is on her way to a safe place to recover.

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Yay, Fiona and yay, heists.

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I've got another heist one for you. I love this shit.

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And like, OK, it's a real like it's straight up loony tunes as heist. Here we go.

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So it was a museum heist, right? At the Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire?

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Yeomanry Museum, my favorite.

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The building of the museum had an archway and the archway ceiling was the floor of a display case.

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It is believed that the heisty boys walked up into that archway, drilled a hole in the ceiling, so the floor, and then stuck a camera up there to see what was there.

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When they saw there was some good yeomanry artifacts in there, they were like, oh, damn.

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And they took out a saw and cut a hole in the floor.

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I'm telling you, straight up loony tune shit.

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So they cut a hole in the floor, grabbed a bunch of stuff and ran off.

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That's really the whole story. Like, they got away with it.

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But damn, what was stolen?

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I truly I truly do not know some some like silver artifacts and whatnot.

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They call it priceless. I'm sure it is. I know nothing about that.

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All I know is that I see a story about some dudes who cut a hole in the floor of a museum to yoink some shit.

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And I'm like, hey, at least it's a good story.

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Hey, you're now aware that you can see your nose in your peripheral vision.

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Ha ha. So while you're aware of your nose, let's talk about noses. Sniff, sniff.

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I don't know why. I don't know why I just said sniff. I'm sorry.

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I didn't mean to say sniff sniff at you like that.

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So some medical science people did some medical science and they found that you smell in stereo.

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You know how you have two nostrils? If you didn't know, I'm sorry you're breaking too.

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You've got two nostrils. And it turns out they kind of work in tandem to double check each other.

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Or at least that's my understanding of the understanding of the scientists that did the experiment.

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So the science people asked some patients with epilepsy who were getting brain surgery to volunteer for an experiment.

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They slapped some alligator clips on their brain during the surgery,

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which is like one of those open brain surgeries where you're awake for it.

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And they did some smell tests.

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They would put like a scent delivery device up to one nostril and measure the response from the brain.

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What they found was that as they delivered it to one nostril or the other,

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one part or another part of the scent processing part of your brain would light up and they wouldn't light up simultaneously.

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What they got from this is essentially that it seems like one of your nostrils might smell something first,

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and then the other one kind of checks its work and says like, yeah, I do.

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I do actually think that's the smell of chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

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What? Desperately reached for something funny to say there instead.

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But I just kind of went with the went with the Christmas line, huh?

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Anyway, this doesn't mean that it works just like ears.

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Like it doesn't seem to be that your nose helps you identify the directionality of smells,

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like how your ear does with with sounds and your ears don't smell.

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Your ears wouldn't do that with smell.

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But it's pretty rad in general that we're learning more about smell.

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All right. I'll move on to the next story now.

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I put a bunch of fluff at the front.

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I'm sorry, it's going to get up. It's going to it's bummer time.

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So here's a content warning. This next segment is an update on Gaza.

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I will be non graphically discussing death, war and the death of children.

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Over the weekend, massive protests around the world broke out, calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.

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Thousands upon thousands of protesters took to the streets in D.C., Paris, Berlin, London, a ton of places,

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basically saying, hey, call for a freaking ceasefire.

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Western powers remain staunchly behind Israel as a political foothold in the region and have no real interest in calling for a serious ceasefire.

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There have been musings from individual officials and some departments saying, hey, maybe a temporary humanitarian ceasefire.

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Israel has outright rejected the concept.

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They've essentially said there is no chance that they would heed the call for a ceasefire.

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Simultaneously, over this past weekend, Israel conducted airstrikes against a refugee camp in Gaza.

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The camp was in the region that Israel told civilians to go seek shelter.

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And then they bombed it again.

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That one airstrike killed at least 40 human beings, injuring dozen more, many of them children.

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The civilian death toll in Gaza has now reached 10,000 human beings, with nearly half of them being children.

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All the while, Western powers are supplying Israel with billions upon billions of dollars in aid.

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Republicans just passed a bill to give 14 billion dollars to Israel.

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Biden said he's going to veto that, but not because of the money, but because of the sourcing of the money.

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Democrats also want to give billions upon billions of dollars in aid to Israel, specifically military aid, giving them more ammo.

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International relief agencies, the UN and even the Pope have called for a ceasefire at this point.

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At this rate, we are quickly approaching Israel having killed 10 civilians for every one Israeli who was killed in the original attack.

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When is it enough?

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At one point have the people of Gaza, who had nothing to do with the attack, paid enough of the price.

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The argument from Israel and their allies is that they won't stop until they root out Hamas by any means necessary.

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Which to me sounds like, hey, give us leeway to do anything.

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And they have been doing war crimes.

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Like the UN is starting to look into who's going to be held accountable for all the war crimes.

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Not that the UN is going to do anything about it as long as the US is involved.

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But still, I remain of the belief that there really should not be a situation in which we say, hey, geopolitical state, I'm giving you a free pass to do war crimes.

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Kill whoever you want. You are justified. It makes sense.

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Anyway, don't kill people.

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On this day in 1217, the Charter of the Forest was sealed at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

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Mostly the title Charter of the Forest sounds rad as hell, and I'm probably going to use that as the name of a D&D campaign in the future.

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But it also had like actual consequences.

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There's this concept of the King's Forest, which was just sort of like this is dedicated land for the monarchy.

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Don't touch. No touchy.

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But then William the Conqueror and his heirs came along and they were like, hey, so the forest is actually most of England.

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OK, slight exaggeration, but it took up like a third of southern England at one point.

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And people were like, hey, we can't live because we can't do anything with this land.

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They literally had a death penalty if you hunted a deer on the Royal Forest.

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Anyway, the Charter of the Forest essentially like rolled that back a bit, reestablished a few rights to being able to use the land.

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It wasn't perfect, but it essentially was like, hey, OK, yeah, you can you can like collect firewood and forage and maybe farm a little bit or something.

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Again, I'm mostly just here for the name.

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Lightning Round.

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Among many others, Stephen King has now publicly shamed Elon Musk and asked him to stop trying to call Twitter X.

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The UK has a proposal written up that would expand the definition of extremism to include people who, quote, undermine the values of the country.

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As YouTube's war on ad blockers continues to amplify, we've seen an incredible level of people installing new ad blockers on their browsers.

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I recommend using Firefox and you block origin if you want the best ad blocking experience without going into more advanced stuff.

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It is my understanding that at this point, Firefox and you block origin still blocks everything that's on YouTube and that works fine.

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This is your reminder that Google also makes Chrome and so they can use their browser to stop you from blocking their ads on their website.

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Tyson is recalling 30,000 pounds of dinosaur chicken nuggets because they found metal scraps in them.

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And finally, for today, the Orcas are added again as they spent 45 minutes attacking a Polish yacht before finally sinking it.

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The crew aboard the yacht is safe, but they don't sink the boat.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content and metal scrap free chicken nuggies.

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My name is Endeavourance. I'll be back on Wednesday. Take care and be well.