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NATURE • Google News Human Interest
The horse stood again after firefighters pulled it outOnly its head showed. Then the buckets came out.
Firefighters in Ashland County, Ohio, pulled a horse from an in-ground water tank last week after the animal broke through the roof and sank until only its head stayed above the surface. Crews from the Polk Jackson Perry Fire District reached Jackson Township shortly after 8 a.m. on Aug. 17, 2026. "You couldn't even see its ears," a witness told Ashland County Pictures. The tank's cover gave way when the horse stepped onto it. Before running a portable pump, firefighters bailed water out by hand with buckets, then used a crane to lift the animal free. What happened next took a moment. "I don't think the horse realized at first that the ground was beneath it and that it could stand," Fire Chief Daniel Nolt said. "Then it seemed like it realized, 'Hey, I can stand up again.'" The horse made it out alive, with volunteer firefighters and neighbors doing the lifting.
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KINDNESS • Woman's World
A stranger's cooler of water became a nonprofit for veterans.No one in the parking lot looked up. Rick parked his truck.
Rick Mulligan was driving home from work in Hampton, Virginia, when he spotted a man in an electric wheelchair with no lower legs, waving a flag that read "Veteran, Please help!" Nobody in the fast-food parking lot was paying attention. Mulligan, an Army veteran himself, parked his truck and introduced himself. The man, Randolf, had been trying to get into the VA, but it was full, and his landlord was getting sore about rent. Mulligan came back with cash, sandwiches, an umbrella and a cooler of bottled water. He went home still fuming, and his wife asked what he was going to do about it. The next day he opened a fundraising account at his bank, where the manager, also a veteran, set it up in five minutes. Within a month he had raised more than $3,000. His nonprofit, the Veterans Care Project, now hosts holiday feasts and visits the VA hospital. "You haven't forgotten us," one outpatient told him at a Walmart checkout, then wrapped him in a hug.
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KINDNESS • Good News Network
Trapped in the dark, strangers shared doughnuts and sandwichesThe lights died under the East River. Then strangers started sharing sandwiches.
Lynn Lowin was riding the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan in November 1965 when the train stopped and every light went out. She was 61 years back from telling the story now, and her first worry was practical. She thought she would be late for her orthodontist appointment. The blackout that hit the northeastern United States and parts of Canada affected 30 million people, and more than 800,000 riders were trapped underground with her. Nobody left the cars. The third rail could kill, and in the dark no one could tell which one it was. So they stayed and started talking. People shared what food they had. Lowin was handed half a doughnut and gave away part of the peanut butter sandwich her mother had packed. Two nurses and a doctor walked car to car checking on the injured. Six hours later, firefighters led them out through the tunnels. New York recorded five reports of looting that night, the lowest crime of any night on record.
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SCIENCE • Sunny Skyz
A limping teacher spotted the T. rex trackway everyone missedHis knee slowed him down. That is why he looked closer.
Kent Hups was hobbling. A science teacher at Northglenn High School in Colorado and longtime volunteer with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, he had recently had a knee replaced, which made the steep terrain of a 2025 paleontology dig near Marmarth, North Dakota, hard going. So while everyone else scrambled up and down the hills, Hups searched slowly. About 23 feet away, he saw four enormous three-toed footprints in the rock, each roughly three feet long. Scientists believe they belonged to an adult Tyrannosaurus rex, and that they are connected into a single trackway. Before this, only two isolated adult T. rex footprints had ever been confirmed anywhere in the world, and neither showed how the animal moved. From the spacing, researchers estimate this one was walking 3.5 to 4.5 miles per hour, about a brisk human pace. "It's the closest you get to a time machine," Hups said. Back at his school's paleontology club, students painted a 3D model of one of the tracks.
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DELIGHT • InspireMore
A deputy thought the deer was dead. It wasn't.He thought it was dead. It disagreed.
A Trinity County sheriff's deputy in Texas approached what he believed was a dead deer lying in the road last week, and his dash cam recorded exactly how that assumption ended. The deer moved. The deputy screamed, yelled "It's awake!" and ran. Within seconds he was laughing at himself, having realized he may have overreacted by a small margin. Local station 12 News Now posted the footage on Instagram, where the comments arrived quickly. "It's the hollering 'it's awake' that got me hollering," one viewer wrote. Several predicted the clip would haunt the deputy for the rest of his career. "That video will follow him into retirement," one person promised, adding that it would be shown at his retirement party. Another had a more immediate plan: "I feel like everyone in that office is gonna be a deer for Halloween." The deer, for its part, was fine. Read the full story → | |||
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