Chicago’s annual Ducky Derby fundraiser happened Wednesday. You pay $10 to sponsor a rubber duck. Then they drop them all into the Chicago River, and you win money if your duck makes it to shore first. According to their website, over 75,000 ducks were sponsored this year. They raised around $400,000 for the Special Olympics. (Here’s…… read more »
First responders in Kansas recently saved a 14-month-old toddler who fell down a pipe. It was a foot wide and 12 feet deep, but he wasn’t seriously hurt. He wouldn’t grab a rope they tossed down to him. So they had to use a “catch pole” that’s normally used for catching dogs. They worked fast…… read more »
A cop in Arizona rescued a baby eagle that landed under his patrol car. The Arizona Raptor Center has been taking care of it. They rehabilitate injured birds and release them back into the wild…………….. A 48-year-old guy went hiking in Kentucky last month and never came home. There was a big search-and-rescue mission, but…… read more »
A 30-year-old named Cheyenne Stone blew up on TikTok after her friends randomly threw her a party, just because she’s awesome. She posted the video in May, but it’s everywhere after “People” magazine and “BuzzFeed” ran it. In the caption, she said she loves celebrating her friends’ milestones, like weddings, but that she’s at a…… read more »
The Ice Bucket Challenge turns 10 this month. It launched in August of 2014, and it’s raised $220 MILLION over the past decade to help find a cure for ALS. The guy who started it was Pete Frates, who lost his battle with ALS in 2019. His family is hoping to relaunch the challenge in…… read more »
A former “nervous flyer” named Brian Morris is sharing the secret to overcoming his fear. It’s basically a set of flashcards, which he’s selling as something called the Flight Deck. It’s meant to be CALMING by reminding people that everything that happens on an airplane is actually NORMAL. (Here’s more about it. He’s selling his…… read more »
A guy in the U.K. named Jonny Clothier graduated from Bristol University 41 years ago, but never got his diploma because his roommate’s parrot wrecked their dorm. Jonny moved out and never made his last rent payment of around $100. But four decades later, the school decided to waive it, so he finally got his…… read more »
An Asheville Red Lobster accidentally received a lobster that looked pre-cooked. Orange lobsters are rare, only around 1 in every 30 million are that color, but it’s the second orange lobster they’ve dealt with this month. Another orange one showed up at a Red Lobster in Colorado a few weeks ago. Both lobsters had their…… read more »
America’s oldest living person just celebrated another birthday. Elizabeth Francis lives in Houston and turned 115 on Thursday. She was born in 1909, five years before the start of World War One. She credits her good health to her faith, and the fact that she’s never smoked. Her advice to young people is don’t be…… read more »
Two years ago, a British woman named Sarah de Lagarde lost an arm and a leg in a terrible subway accident. She got run over by TWO trains, but she’s not letting it hold her back. Next month, she’s heading to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. She’d be the first female double prosthetic amputee to…… read more »