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30 Pieces of Good News That Went Unnoticed

Time to cheer up with some good news for a change

30 Pieces of Good News That Went Unnoticed

September 15, 2023

Considering how most new outlets present the news, you would think that there’s nothing but despair out there. And so, we decided to sift through all the doom and gloom and find some positive news headlines for a change. Headlines like…

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A Florida restaurant chain solved its labor shortage by ... paying more. More pay and greater benefits helped Pollo Tropical get its staffing levels back to normal - a move other employers will, hopefully, copy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Whales

It looks like humpback whales are coming back to the Salish Sea after a while. 21 humpback whale calves were seen in the Salish Sea, which is huge considering that's a species that was endangered until recently. CRACKED.COM — Source

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An ICU nurse adopted a patient with autism SO he could get a life-saving heart transplant. ICU nurse Lori Woods met Jonathan Pinkard in her hospital. Being homeless, he had no support system for his post-transplant care, which made him ineligible for the surgery. When she adopted him, he became became eligible, and got his surgery, a new home, and a new family. CRACKED.COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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14-year-old John Hudson Dilgen has a rare skin disease called Epidermolysis Bullosa, a condition in which the skin is so fragile it can rip or blister at the slightest touch. Hoping to renovate their bathroom to accommodate a special tub which can help with his treatment, his parents set up a GoFundMe page with a goal of $40,000. Within a week, more than $100,000 had been raised. CRACKED.COM — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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An extremely rare bird was spotted in Maui, and it's giving researchers hope. The critically endangered kiwikiu bird is down to about 150 individuals, and one individual thought dead was found alive after almost two years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WAR IS ATAN ALL-TIME LOW. The world is experiencing a long peace. The first decade of the 21st century saw the number of annual battle deaths at its lowest ever in history. And the past couple of hundred years have been the most peaceful in world history - even taking the world wars into account. CRACKED.COM https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/B10001424053111904106704576583203589408180 — 12 Pieces Of Good News The Media Just Skipped

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Michael J Fox has raised $1 billion to cure Parkinson's, and he's still going. That's how much his foundation has raised, and he said, I just want to get this done. I'm committed to this. I won't stop until it happens. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams' PAC erased $212 million of medical debt for 108,000 people. The truly lucky winners live in Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, covering a pretty big area. CRACKED.COM — Source

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For the first time ever, we've photographed a very rare gigantic owl in Africa. As Shelley's Eagle Owl has almost never been seen in a century and a half, ecologists called the photo of the animal a sensational discovery. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lithuania

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the newly independent Lithuania couldn't afford to send their basketball team to the 1992 Summer Olympics. das MENT The Grateful Dead stepped in and covered the expense. CRACKED.COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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Good Kids

A second-grade class in Topeka, Kansas, emptied out their piggy banks to raise $450 for surgery and foster care for Ryker, a homeless, six-month- old Australian shepherd with a broken leg. The kids +12cm ١٠ had just finished reading Sheepdog in the Snow- a book about a girl who rescues an abandoned sheepdog with a broken leg. CRACKED.COM — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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Solar photovoltaic generating capacity is growing at an incredible rate. Between 2016 and 2018 alone, it grew by 81% throughout the entire world - in other words, it almost doubled in just two short years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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HUMPBACK WHALES ARE NO LONGER ENDANGERED. In 1966, there were only about 5,000 humpback whales left. Today there 100,000 or so worldwide. Other endangered animals have also made comebacks, including bald eagles, gray wolves, and giant pandas. http://www.mercurynews.com/2015/04/20/humpback-whale-population- CRACKED.COM grows-animals-proposed-to-be-removed-from-endangered-species-act/ — 12 Pieces Of Good News The Media Just Skipped

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The Fed has banned officials from owning individual stocks and 3900 2800H LLC 034 120000 SOO 45400 لاج ISьOH bonds. ISSOSO That makes it harder to profit from making 25 OO companies, which should make things fairer 00 laws and policies that benefit specific 0027 0.0 92 0225 142 09 for everyone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It looks like we're successfully saving the Saharan gazelle from extinction. A bunch of the gazelles was placed in a breeding program in Spain, which eventually produced thousands of new gazelles. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A science teacher partly regained her sight thanks to a camera and brain implant. She was blind, but can now see letters and the edges of objects, and even play a Maggie Simpson video game. She's had zero complications in six months. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Tech N9ne donates bras thrown on stage during his concerts to women's shelters. JOBOX The cause is near to his heart. When he was a young man, he and his mother lived with abusive men. They spent a lot of time running from them, and once even had to move for so long that he had to change schools. — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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The Boy Scouts of America now welcome transgender boys. JOE MALDONADO In January 2017, the Boy Scouts of America have announced that their programs are open to transgender boys, effective immediately. Joe Maldonado, a transgender boy who was excluded from the organization in 2016, was quickly re-admitted under the new policy. CRACKED.COM — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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The Pennsylvania Hockey team, The Hershey Bears, held their annual Teddy Bear Toss for fans to donate stuffed animals by tossing them on the ice. SEASON & GROUP TOYOTA TOCKET INFORM Call W The fans brought more than CRACKED.COM 45,000 stuffed animals of all shapes and sizes. The toss halted the game for almost an hour. — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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Angkor Wat will no longer exploit elephants. Angkor Wat used to offer elephant rides but, for the elephants' sake, is shutting that down. Ferrying tourists back and forth all day takes a huge toll on them-in 2016, one even died of heatstroke and overwork. Two of its 14 elephants have already been relocated to a forest. The others will join them by early 2020. CRACKED.COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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A joint British/Chinese study found the physical source for depression in the brain. This knowledge could enable new treatments for depression in the future. CRACKED.COM — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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A teenager went to get her matted hair shaved off for picture day because she was severely depressed and had stopped brushing it. Instead, the hairdresser spent 13 hours reviving it, after which the girl left happy, saying she felt like herself again and promising to smile for her yearbook photo. CRACKED COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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Reneita Smith, a Maryland bus driver, rescued all twenty of the children on her bus when it spontaneously caught fire on the road. GRACKED COM — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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A carpenter from lowa worked for 67 years and saved $3 million. All of it was used to send 33 strangers to college. ED Dale Schroeder grew up poor and never got the chance to go to college. Не didn't have a wife or kids, so before he died in 2005, he went to his lawyer and told him how he wanted his savings to be used. The kids he helped, called Dale's kids, are now professionals. CRACKED.COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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China is Now the Biggest Producer of Solar Energy in the World China is home to a whopping 1.357 billion people and is a leading producer, which makes their decision to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy incredibly important. CRACKED.COM — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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In Portugal, it's now illegal for your boss to text you after work hours. The new law was apparently voted on as a response to the boom in remote work thanks to the pandemic. CRACKED.COM — Source

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We're figuring out that lightning might be pretty important for the atmosphere. Electrical storms create molecules that clean up the atmosphere, it turns out, by breaking down carbon monoxide and methane. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A kind stranger in Salem known only as 'Benny' has been hiding $100 notes all around stores, markets, and public events for people to discover. 100 E ONE HINDHED DOLLARS MIKE FEDERAL RESERVE E lat NOTE - UNITEDSTATES OFAMERICA LB 70845124 F help CARTE NOTE PORK LEGAL - CANDON FOR B2 E Beuy LB 70845124F THE F human in Person TERAS 200m 100 love have the حضاء Yes Benny has donated over $50,000 in the course of two years. His act of philanthropy has also inspired some recipients of the 'Benny' notes to donate the money to those in need. CRACKED.COM — Feel-Good Stories To Buoy All Our Souls

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CRACKED.COM A 5-month old pitbull saved his owner's girlfriend from rape. Apollo, the hero pitbull, chomped down on the would-be rapist's leg and gave the woman time to escape. On December 8 2016, Apollo got a special ceremony and lots and lots of chew toys for being such a good boy. — 29 Pieces Of Good News That Got Choked Out By Trump Stories

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HPV Vaccine

It turns out that the HPV vaccine is an incredible weapon against cancer. It can apparently cut cervical cancer rates by about 90% (which is because, as it turns out, viruses cause almost all cervical cancers). CRACKED.COM — Source

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