Let’s take some time and enjoy some fun and uplifting stories.
1. A 17-year-old named Mack Rutherford just landed in Bulgaria and became the youngest person to fly solo around the world. He did it bit by bit over five months. When he got his pilot license in 2020 at 15, he was the youngest pilot in the world.
2. Remember the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in 2009? One of the passengers just returned to the river to raise money for a good cause. His name is Dave Sanderson, and he helped make sure everyone on the plane got out. Earlier this month, he joined some former Navy SEALS and swam 3.1 miles to raise money for a veterans charity called the G.I. Go Fund.
3. A guy in Pennsylvania had a heart attack this month, and rang his neighbors’ doorbell because one is a firefighter, and the other’s a nurse. They ended up doing CPR, and their doorbell camera got it all on video. It also got a shot of him coming back two days later to thank them for saving his life.
4. Someone in Houston found an abandoned puppy under a junk pile on the side of the road. So they rescued it, and it got adopted by a dancer for the Houston Rockets.
5. A woman on a bus in Peru recently fell asleep on a random guy’s shoulder, and he just let her sleep. Then she saw him on the same bus again a few weeks later . . . he asked her out . . . and now they’re dating.
6. An Uber driver in New York was taking someone to the airport last Wednesday when he pulled over and saved two people from a burning building. (Here he is talking about it.)
7. A new study at the University of Texas found that random acts of kindness have a bigger impact than you might think. We tend to underestimate how much they’re appreciated.
8. Here’s someone who refused to give up: A single mom in Canada named Tracy MacDonald never graduated high school, because she failed English. But she just went back and got her diploma 20 years later. Now she plans to go to college to become a teacher. She’s already working as a teacher’s assistant.
9. Almost two decades ago, a basketball fan near Seattle named Tom Steury set a goal for himself to make a million free throws. And he finally did it last Thursday on his 82nd birthday. He initially started by taking 100 shots a day, and he’s gotten pretty good at it. He says his shooting percentage is around 94% now, and he once made 222 in a row.
10. A woman was at a beach in New Hampshire when she lost her wedding ring that originally belonged to her great-grandmother. She thought she’d never find it. But then a complete stranger heard about it . . . went back with an underwater metal detector . . . and found it for her.
11. A 16-year-old apprentice carpenter building a school near Brisbane, Australia, left a message in a bottle on October 12th, 1935, in hopes it would someday reach his future children or grandchildren. Finally, they’ve gotten it. Workers found the bottle recently while restoring the school spire. The school hosted a ceremony this week to hand it over to Geoffrey Benson and Marilyn Blundell, two of the five children of Gordon Benson. The message was from Gordon and another carpenter, Douglas Heron, whose family has not been traced. It said simply: “Built this fleche for the Dept of Public Works 12 of July 1935. We now are looking down [at] you. Since removing it, if any of my children are living, pass this onto them. R.I.P.”
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