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KINDNESS • Sunny Skyz
The adults froze, so an 11-year-old made the rescueAn 11-year-old boy pulled an unconscious man from the bottom of an apartment pool in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday evening, after the adults around him did not move. Avory Woolery spotted the man underwater and waited a beat for someone to act. No one did. "No one was doing anything, so I put on my goggles. I went underwater," he said. "I grabbed him up and I just felt really bad because there was no way that I was going to let another man die today. He's a human being. He should be treated as such." Avory hauled the man to the surface and onto the deck, where a friend began CPR and someone called 911. The Lexington Fire Department said the man was taken to a hospital in serious condition. Avory's father, Sean, said a stranger stopped him on the way in. "Somebody said, 'Thank you, you taught him how to swim.'"
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
He joined a street act to win her back. It worked.Kate Latkovic, 25, shared the story of how her parents met, and the internet has decided it belongs in theaters. Tom and Kim were backpacking separately through Europe in the mid-'90s when they crossed paths one night, hit it off, and woke up the next morning with no phones, no email, and no way to find each other again. They were headed to different cities. Tom refused to leave it there. He found a street performer in the busiest square he could locate and volunteered as part of the act, betting that being impossible to miss might bring Kim back. It did. She found him, and they finished the trip together. During those days, Tom told Kim he could already picture her old and gray, surrounded by grandkids. She said she felt the same. One of Tom's friends wrote in his travel journal, "Ten bucks Tom marries her." Six months later they got engaged. Twenty-seven years on, the journal entry hangs framed in their home.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
They'll deliver each other's babies. All seventeen of them.Seventeen nurses in the Labor and Delivery Unit at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, are pregnant at the same time, and they plan to deliver each other's babies. The births are expected between June and December, since the women are on different trimester timelines. The unit set a smaller record in 2019, when 11 nurses were expecting at once. "It just kept growing and growing," nurse manager Amberly Saner told ABC News. Rileigh Batten, who is having her second child, wants her longtime coworker Maddie in the room when the day comes. Maddie has worked alongside her for five years and is also pregnant. "They trust the people that are in that room with them when they're delivering, and they just want them to care for them," Saner said. Recently 15 of the 17 gathered for a group photo in matching uniforms. The hospital has confirmed its support staff can cover the leave.
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DELIGHT • Upworthy
Twelve-year-olds recorded questions. Seven years later, they answered.Brandan Roberts, the video director at McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, filmed a group of sixth-grade boys in 2018, asking them to record questions for their future selves. In 2025, he filmed the same students, now mostly 18, answering. The idea came from the movie Boyhood. Several of the boys had forgotten the project entirely and watched their younger faces on an iPad for the first time in seven years. The questions were what you would expect from a twelve-year-old. One boy, Ward, asked whether Mexican was still his favorite food. Older Ward confirmed it, and named a few restaurants for the record. The advice ran deeper. Asked the biggest lesson he had learned, Canon said, "Always be kind to others and always love others. Just treat your neighbors as you would yourself." Roberts said one moment gave him chills. "It was just a real human moment," he said.
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DELIGHT • CBS Sunday Morning
Bison arrived for a movie in the 1920s and never leftBison graze on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California, in footage captured by a wildlife videographer for CBS Sunday Morning. The animals moved slowly across the grass, the kind of morning that asks nothing of anyone watching. The herd has an unlikely history on the island. Bison are not native to Catalina. They arrived in the 1920s for a film shoot and stayed after the crew left, which is a very Hollywood way to end up somewhere. Generations later, their descendants still roam the hills above the Pacific. The footage carried no narration and no urgency, just the wind and the low sound of animals eating breakfast. They did not seem to know they were being filmed, and would not have cared if they did.
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