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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff, Ride Hell, Marcus Paff with Reggie Rizzou. On today's

episode, famed broadcaster Al Michaels is set to make an Olympic comeback, but he won't be required to attend or even watch the games. We'll explain. 250-year-old cherries found perfectly preserved at Mount Vernon. And on this day in history, the first seatbelt legislation

is enacted. That's coming up on cool stuff. We'll kick it off this edition of Cool Stuff with a story

from the Associated Press. Despite stories to the contrary, George Washington never did cut down a cherry

tree, but he did pack away quite a few bottles of the fruit at his Mount Vernon home.

Dozens of bottles of cherries and other berries, impossibly preserved in storage pits,

uncovered from the cellar of his mansion on the banks of the Potomac,

were discovered during an archaeological dig connected to a restoration project.

Mount Vernon's principal archaeologist,

Jason Burroughs, said the discovery is essentially unprecedented. I mean, we're talking about food

that's been preserved for more than 250 years here. In a recent interview given by Burroughs, he said,

quote, finding what is essentially fresh fruit 250 years later is pretty spectacular.

All the stars sort of had to align in the right manner for that to happen, end quote.

Whole pieces of fruit, recognizable even as cherries, were found in some of the bottles.

Other bottles held what appeared to be gooseberries or currants, though testing is underway to confirm that.

And in case you're wondering, currents are a type of raisin gooseberries.

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