12 Feel-Good Facts
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Published
08/23/2014
These facts will surely brighten your day.
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1.
Millionaire Harris Rosen gave a Florida neighborhood free daycare and scholarships to all high school graduates. This raised the graduation rate from 25% to 100% and cut crime in half. -
2.
Volvo invented the 3-point belt and then gave up the license for all of its competitors to use it for free. -
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1994 MVP Hakeem Oujuwon released a shoe for $35 instead of endorsing a shoe from Nike or Reebok because he said poor single moms wouldn't be able to afford $120 shoes for their kids. -
4.
A male tiger in India adopted orphan cubs. It was the first time officials had ever seen that behavior. -
5.
Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away 99% of his wealth--$6.3 billion to send impoverished kids to college. -
6.
The Seattle Mariners gave Ichiro Suzuki the number 51--the same number that Randy Johnson used to wear. Suzuki wrote Johnson a letter promising to not dishonor the number. -
7.
Two surgeons once successfully operated on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight using only a tube, a coat hanger, and a lot of brandy. -
8.
A nuclear power station in Japan survived the 2011 tsunami unscathed because its designer regarded bureaucrats as "human trash," and so he had the seawalls built 5 times higher than required. -
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George Zimmer, owner of The Men's Wearhouse doesn't do background checks on perspective employees because he doesn't think the justice system always gets it right, and everyone deserves a second chance. -
10.
Iraqi refugee in Australia lived on welfare money but returned all of it when he became successful. -
11.
Stockholm has a speeding camera lottery wherein safe drivers can win money from the gathered fines of speeding drivers. -
12.
Billy Joel gives away all the front row tickets at his concerts to random people who had back row tickets.
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