Professional Cyclist Takes on Delivery Work during Lockdown Posted June 10, 2020 Italian professional cyclist Umberto Marengo has been doing deliveries across Turin in Northern Italy to help people during the pandemic. Marengo is a member of the professiona…
Hallmark Gives Away Greeting Cards for Essential Workers Posted June 1, 2020 Greeting card company Hallmark has given away millions of thank-you cards for essential workers in the United States. The company’s Care Enough project has tried to bring peopl…
Bar Owner Pays Unemployed Staff with Money Attached to Walls and Ceiling Posted May 26, 2020 A bar owner in Georgia paid her currently unemployed staff using money that was stapled to her bar’s walls and ceiling. According to Jennifer Knox, owner of The Sand Bar in Tyb…
High-End Restaurant in New York Helps Provide Food Amid Pandemic Posted May 14, 2020 Eleven Madison Park, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Manhattan, has partnered with a nonprofit organization to give food for health workers and other people in need. In an Ins…
Sword Found to be Much Older than Previously Thought Posted May 11, 2020 An archaeology student discovered that an ancient sword is older than previously thought. Vittoria Dall’Armellina, who was a doctoral student at the time, saw the sword back in…
Young Girl Creates Organization to Support Unwanted Pet Pigs Posted April 30, 2020 Alaina Holdread, a nine-year-old girl from Michigan, founded an organization to support abandoned pet pigs. Holdread wanted to raise awareness about the nature of pigs and help…
Company Accidentally Knocks Down Wrong House Posted April 28, 2020 A company accidentally demolished the wrong house on a street in Dallas, Texas. Family-owned company JR Demolition and Excavating Inc. was supposed to knock do…
Student Gives Bonus Points to Classmate with Lowest Score Posted April 17, 2020 A high school student chose to give his exam bonus points to a failing classmate. Winston Lee, a history teacher at Letcher County Central High School, shared the student’s act…
Former US Marine Takes Back World Record Posted April 15, 2020 George Hood, a 62-year-old former US Marine, has set the Guinness World Record for holding the longest plank. Planking is an exercise in which an individual holds a position si…
School Returns Lost Old Purse to Owner’s Family Posted April 8, 2020 An old red purse was found wedged between a locker and a wall in an Ohio middle school and returned to the owner’s family. In May 2019, an employee of North Ca…