The world’s first wood satellite arrived at the Space Station on Tuesday. They’ll drop it into orbit soon to see how it holds up in the vacuum of space. If it works, we might use wood for ALL satellites someday. It’s more eco-friendly when it burns up on reentry and doesn’t damage the ozone layer……………….…… read more »
A little boy in England is going viral after surviving his fourth open-heart surgery. His parents posted a video of him an hour after he woke up, lying in the hospital singing the Elton John song, “I’m Still Standing”…………………….. A construction worker in Vancouver bought a scratch-off lottery ticket for a game called Concert of…… read more »
A guy who calls himself the Barefoot Dutchman arrived in New York this weekend after walking across the country barefoot. He left Santa Monica in February and trekked 3,100 miles. He finished in Times Square on Saturday. It broke his own world record for longest barefoot hike. He did it to raise money for a…… read more »
Chick-fil-A employees in Houston helped a long-time customer with terminal cancer cross something off his bucket list. He and his wife have been to every state capital except Juneau, Alaska, and he can’t make it there himself at this point, so they took the couple’s wedding photo from 52 years ago, and photoshopped it into…… read more »
Lyft is offering discounts to help get people to the polls today. Use the code “VOTE24” to get up to $10 off Election Day rideshares, bikes, and scooters. It’s called the Lyft Up Voting Access Program and they’ve been doing it since 2014. Uber and Lime have similar deals today………………. An elementary school in central MO…… read more »
A six-year-old girl in England named Ada Hawkes had a happy Halloween thanks to a bunch of neighbors who learned sign language for her. Over half of the people in her neighborhood took time out to learn some simple phrases, like “trick or treat” and “you look spooky.”………….. A one-year-old dog in Canada named Phoenix…… read more »
This is good news if you’re traveling for the holidays and your flight gets canceled. A new law went into effect this week that requires airlines to issue actual refunds. If your flight gets canceled or significantly delayed, they have to refund your money if that’s what you want. They can’t just do vouchers anymore………….. The…… read more »
Last year, a Utah family had to take down a pole dancing Halloween display because it was attached to a city street sign. The residents moved the display to their yard with their own pole, and the story went viral. Now, everyone in their neighborhood is getting in on the skeleton display action, and it’s become such…… read more »
The BBC just did a big write-up on a group of guys in England who’ve met up for drinks almost every Thursday since 1968. They’re all in their 80s now. They say they’ve maybe missed 25 Thursdays in 56 years. (They joked that they used to talk about “soccer and sex.” But now it’s “more…… read more »
An NC woman posted a video after showing up at her aunt’s door and surprising her with a sign that said, “It’s a go . . . Kidney buddies for life.” An Amazon driver happened to be dropping off a package, and it turned out he ALSO received a life-saving kidney transplant 25 years ago……………………… read more »