A video of a high school senior named Jennifer Zhang is going viral, because she applied to a bunch of Ivy League schools and kept getting rejected . . . until she opened her very last letter. She got accepted to Penn, and will be the first person in her family to go to college…………….…… read more »
A library in New Zealand was supposed to be closed for a national holiday last month, but someone left the doors unlocked. So almost 400 people used the library that day, and checked out 150 books with an automated machine. But even with no workers there, zero books were stolen…………………….Speaking of books, a woman in…… read more »
How’s this for a trifecta? Firefighters in Massachusetts saved a dog from a house fire the other day. Meanwhile, firefighters in Ireland saved a kitten after it got stuck on someone’s roof. And firefighters in Florida saved a bunch of ducklings that fell in a storm drain…………………A video of a guy in Louisiana who’s in…… read more »
ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell has released an animated video for the new tune, “Siren Song”, which is featured his latest solo album, “Brighten” Ready to ignite 2022, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®-inducted icons and rock music legends Def Leppard return with their twelfth full-length album, Diamond Star Halos [UMe], on May 27th,…… read more »
A website called Preply added a feature that lets you send notes of encouragement to people in Ukraine, and it automatically translates them into Ukrainian. You can also read what other people have written. There’s a map that shows where all the messages are coming from, and people in 115 different countries have already sent…… read more »
A one-year-old girl in the U.K. was involved in a terrible car crash in December, and doctors thought she was paralyzed. But now there’s a video making the rounds after she walked again for the first time last week. (Here’s the video.)……………..”The L.A. Times” just did a big write-up on a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai named…… read more »
A Ukrainian woman who owns and operates a bakery in San Antonio promised to donate all the money she brought in last weekend to help people in her home country. And in three days, she raised over $72,000. Also, crypto donors have been giving Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other coins in huge amounts. Over $50 MILLION has…… read more »
Coming March 25, Changeup, the first acoustic album from JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS. “(I’m Gonna) Run Away” is the first release. There’s a hideous LARS ULRICH toilet that has found a new home at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum in Denmark. KEITH RICHARDS quit smoking cigarettes after 55 years. Original KISS members…… read more »
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A new study found dogs are medicinal. Researchers let E.R. patients spend ten minutes with a therapy dog, and it significantly lowered the amount of pain they were in…………………In other dog news: A guy in Hawaii rescued a dog that got stuck in a 25-foot hole for two days, and it’s all on video. And…… read more »