Some Cool Random Things To Make You Smile
People Can Be Kind
By Rawpixel Ltd — Carpenter and construction worker from Georgia who is recovering from flu (1940). Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97436129
Syndrome K was a fake disease Italian doctors invented to save Jews at their hospital who had fled from the Nazis. The Jews were quarantined and the Nazis believed it was a deadly contagious disease.
Photo by Natalia Chernenko on Unsplash
A Chinese farmer with a 3rd grade education spent 16 years teaching himself law so he could sue a chemical company that polluted his village. He couldn’t afford law books, so he studied at a bookstore. He paid the store in bags of corn and copied pertinent information by hand. He won his case in 2017.
A group of women who called themselves The 9 Nanas met at 4 a.m. and anonymously paid bills and bought clothes for needy people. They sent care packages to people with a home baked pound cake and a note saying ‘Somebody loves you’.
Photo by Jorg Karg on Unsplash
In 2013, a homeless man, Billy Ray Harris, found a $4,000 engagement ring in his beggar’s cup. A woman had accidentally dropped it while giving him some coins. She came back two days later, and he returned the ring to her. Impressed, she set up a fund to raise $4,000 for him. It ended up taking in $185,000.
By Dave Pullig — https://www.flickr.com/photos/41061319@N00/262930800/, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1437966
When Gordon Ramsay was filming a cooking show at a prison, he challenged an inmate to an onion chopping contest. The inmate won. When the inmate was released from prison, Ramsay gave him a job in one of his London restaurants.
Photo by Damir Spanic on Unsplash
Four inmates saved a prison guard from another inmate because the guard had always shown them respect.
Photo by Tarikul Raana on Unsplash
Dale Schroeder grew up poor, never married, had no children. He was a carpenter. He only owned two pairs of jeans. He spent all his money to send 33 young people to college.
By Eva Rinaldi — Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36961334
Dolly Parton came up with a program that will mail a book to your child ages birth to age 5. There is no obligation. She wants to make sure that every child has books.
Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash
A millionaire announced that he would bury his Bentley for his afterlife. After much negative feedback, he revealed the purpose of his statement. It was a sort of publicity stunt to promote organ donations. He said “People bury things that are much more important than cars and nobody seems to care.”
A cow escaped from a slaughterhouse by smashing through a fence and breaking a man’s arm when the man tried to stop her. The cow swam to an island and lives there alone now.
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash
A middle school in Dallas was having a ‘breakfast with dads’ but then realized some students didn’t have a father figure. The school went on Facebook to ask for 50 volunteer ‘dads’. 600 men showed up to help out.
Billy Joel never sells tickets to the front row seats at his concerts. He got tired of all the bored rich people looking up at him. Now, he sends his road crew to bring down people in the worst seats to occupy these premium seats so there will be people who are genuinely happy to be there and hear him sing.
Photo by David Cain on Unsplash
A homeless man found a $10,000 check on the street written out to a real estate broker, Roberta Hoskie. The man found a way to track her down and returned the check. Hoskie rewarded his honesty with a place to live and arranged a job interview for him. A year later, he was a member of the board of directors of Hoskie’s Outreach Foundation, which provides affordable housing for low to moderate income families.
Boston College has a policy that employees’ children can attend for free if they are accepted. One janitor had five children who all got in. That saved him about $700,000 in tuition and fees.
Photo by Roberto Sorin on Unsplash
A dad made beeping eggs so his visually impaired daughter could be in Easter egg hunts.
This is a reminder from Dr. Preeti Singh that little words can encourage and restore us.
