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Welcome once again to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. I'm Reggie Rizzou

alongside Marcus Path, and we bring you some of the

cool stories that are intriguing and interesting from around the world on today's episode. Beavers

build a much needed dam that would have cost around $1.2 million to make otherwise and how

omega-3 can slow your aging. Plus looking at this day in history, well, YouTube

is celebrating its 20th anniversary. That's all coming up on cool stuff. Turning once again to

ZME science, this time author Mahai Andre. For years, authorities debated building a barrier to

protect the Klobava River south of Prague from sediment and acidic water

spilling from nearby ponds. A dam would have solved the problem, but the project stalled

due to financial and bureaucratic problems since 2018. Then, in a surprising twist, beavers took

matters into their own pause, believe it or not, completing the job almost overnight.

For Bohemiel Faiser, head of the administration for protected areas of the Czech hills, quote,

the beavers have done exactly what we had planned in tedious bureaucracy, and they did it for free, end quote.

Beavours, of course, are among nature's most skilled engineers.

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