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Lone Employee At Waffle House Was Swamped. So Customers Jumped In To Help
Ethan Crispo was hungry after a friend's birthday party, and he stopped at his local Waffle House restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, to get a midnight snack.
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1,000 People Offered To Stitch Quilt Of A Dead Woman None Of Them Knew
Shannon Downey likes craft projects and she also frequents estate sales near her home in Chicago. When she's at a sale and sees small, unfinished craft projects in a home, often embroidery, she will buy it just to finish it and then donate it somewhere.
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Man Proposes Girlfriend By Planting Carrot Inside A Diamond Ring
Canadians John Neville and Danielle "DeeJay" Squires have been together for about six years. They've been busy with two small children in the past few months and years, but they figured they'd tie the knot someday.
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Seen This Man's Viral 'Blinking GIF'? He Wants A Favour From You
He's "Blinking Guy," also known as "White Guy Blinking," the viral baffled-eyed GIF people use to indicate confusion, and also that they think someone is an ignoramus.
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Postman Retires After 35 Years, Gets A Hawaiian Surprise From Strangers
Longtime mail carrier Floyd Martin retired from his neighborhood route in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday, which might have called for a handshake or even a cake to send him off.
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Billionaire Surprises 400 Graduates With $10 Million Loan Pay-Off Promise
It was a hot, sticky morning in Atlanta on Sunday when billionaire investor and philanthropist Robert Smith stood atop an outdoor stage on the campus of Morehouse College, and started delivering a speech that the nearly 400 graduates probably thought would be the usual commencement fare.
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UK Restaurant Owner's Tweet After Manager Serves $5,000 Wine By Mistake
Restaurant work is demanding and intense, and managers are not always known for their kindness and understanding. So when one steakhouse in Manchester, England, tweeted a "chin up" message to a server who made a very costly mistake, social media responded in a big way.
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Why Texas Principal Reads Bedtime Stories In Her Pajamas On Facebook Live
To foster a love of reading, elementary educators tell their students to read a book at night, or have someone read to them. One principal in Texas has made it personal: She snuggles into a pair of pajamas and reads to her students herself.
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Sign Language Show Cut From Broadcast, Viewed Over 1 Million Times Online
The rousing patriotic songs - "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" - performed before Sunday's Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta were cheered by the pumped-up crowd in the stadium and seen in homes around the world.
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Boy Calls 911 About Math Homework, Dispatcher Helps Him Out
Antonia Bundy, a 911 dispatcher from Indiana, helped a fifth grader out with his homework. The Lafayette Police Department posted the 911 call on Twitter last week, and the response has been huge.
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Teacher Gets Best Gift From Elementary Schoolgirl With "Nothing To Give"
Rachel Uretsky-Pratt is an elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, so this time of year she gets a lot of gifts from students: chocolates, notes, jewelry.
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Man Who Died Left Christmas Gifts "For 14 Years" For Neighbours' Child
Owen Williams and his wife befriended their octogenarian neighbor, Ken Watson, when they moved into their home in Wales three years ago.
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Lost Wallet Returned, With Something Extra Inside
Hunter Shamatt had just arrived in Las Vegas when he realized his wallet was gone. However, it was returned to him within days, with a surprise inside.
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California Bar Shooting: Customers Broke Glass With Stools, Helped 35 Out
In the aftermath of the shooting at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California, in which 12 people were killed, survivors are starting to tell their stories of how they escaped through a window with the help of a fast-acting bar patron.
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106-Year-Old Woman Becomes US Citizen On Election Day. She's Never Voted
When Maria Valles Vda De Bonilla moved to the United States from El Salvador 16 years ago - at age 90 - there was one thing she requested: To become a citizen.
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Lone Employee At Waffle House Was Swamped. So Customers Jumped In To Help
Ethan Crispo was hungry after a friend's birthday party, and he stopped at his local Waffle House restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, to get a midnight snack.
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1,000 People Offered To Stitch Quilt Of A Dead Woman None Of Them Knew
Shannon Downey likes craft projects and she also frequents estate sales near her home in Chicago. When she's at a sale and sees small, unfinished craft projects in a home, often embroidery, she will buy it just to finish it and then donate it somewhere.
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Man Proposes Girlfriend By Planting Carrot Inside A Diamond Ring
Canadians John Neville and Danielle "DeeJay" Squires have been together for about six years. They've been busy with two small children in the past few months and years, but they figured they'd tie the knot someday.
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Seen This Man's Viral 'Blinking GIF'? He Wants A Favour From You
He's "Blinking Guy," also known as "White Guy Blinking," the viral baffled-eyed GIF people use to indicate confusion, and also that they think someone is an ignoramus.
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Postman Retires After 35 Years, Gets A Hawaiian Surprise From Strangers
Longtime mail carrier Floyd Martin retired from his neighborhood route in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday, which might have called for a handshake or even a cake to send him off.
-
Billionaire Surprises 400 Graduates With $10 Million Loan Pay-Off Promise
It was a hot, sticky morning in Atlanta on Sunday when billionaire investor and philanthropist Robert Smith stood atop an outdoor stage on the campus of Morehouse College, and started delivering a speech that the nearly 400 graduates probably thought would be the usual commencement fare.
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UK Restaurant Owner's Tweet After Manager Serves $5,000 Wine By Mistake
Restaurant work is demanding and intense, and managers are not always known for their kindness and understanding. So when one steakhouse in Manchester, England, tweeted a "chin up" message to a server who made a very costly mistake, social media responded in a big way.
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Why Texas Principal Reads Bedtime Stories In Her Pajamas On Facebook Live
To foster a love of reading, elementary educators tell their students to read a book at night, or have someone read to them. One principal in Texas has made it personal: She snuggles into a pair of pajamas and reads to her students herself.
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Sign Language Show Cut From Broadcast, Viewed Over 1 Million Times Online
The rousing patriotic songs - "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful" - performed before Sunday's Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta were cheered by the pumped-up crowd in the stadium and seen in homes around the world.
-
Boy Calls 911 About Math Homework, Dispatcher Helps Him Out
Antonia Bundy, a 911 dispatcher from Indiana, helped a fifth grader out with his homework. The Lafayette Police Department posted the 911 call on Twitter last week, and the response has been huge.
-
Teacher Gets Best Gift From Elementary Schoolgirl With "Nothing To Give"
Rachel Uretsky-Pratt is an elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, so this time of year she gets a lot of gifts from students: chocolates, notes, jewelry.
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Man Who Died Left Christmas Gifts "For 14 Years" For Neighbours' Child
Owen Williams and his wife befriended their octogenarian neighbor, Ken Watson, when they moved into their home in Wales three years ago.
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Lost Wallet Returned, With Something Extra Inside
Hunter Shamatt had just arrived in Las Vegas when he realized his wallet was gone. However, it was returned to him within days, with a surprise inside.
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California Bar Shooting: Customers Broke Glass With Stools, Helped 35 Out
In the aftermath of the shooting at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California, in which 12 people were killed, survivors are starting to tell their stories of how they escaped through a window with the help of a fast-acting bar patron.
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106-Year-Old Woman Becomes US Citizen On Election Day. She's Never Voted
When Maria Valles Vda De Bonilla moved to the United States from El Salvador 16 years ago - at age 90 - there was one thing she requested: To become a citizen.
