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Good News in History, August 3
Happy 60th birthday to James Hetfield, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Metallica. The thrash metal kings have featured only 2 permanent members,...
Good News in History, July 22
60 years ago today, Philadelphia's first heavyweight boxing champion, Sonny Liston KO'd Floyd Patterson in a rematch of the bout that the year before...
Leslie Dart has Planted 372,290 Trees Across Canada Over the Past 3 Summers and Inspired So Many Others
A young woman in Canada's Saskatchewan Province recently garnered 8.7 million views on a TikTok video of her planting 4,545 trees in a single...
Good News in History, July 9
Happy 48th birthday to the "coolest, weirdest, and savviest rock stars of our time," Jack White. Born in Detroit, his run of work with...
Good News in History, July 1
127 years ago today, Wilfrid Laurier was sworn in as Canada's first French-speaking prime minister. Recognized as either the greatest leader Canada has ever...
Good News in History, June 26
247 years ago today, the national poet of Thailand, Sunthorn Phu was born in Bangkok. A composer of epic poetry, Phu's life was strange...
Good News in History, June 20
83 years ago, Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz...
Good News in History, June 15
723 years ago today, the city of Bilbao was founded in northern Spain's Basque Country. It was established by the local lord Diego López...
Antibiotic That Destroys One of World’s Deadliest Superbugs Discovered by AI Supercomputer
An antibiotic that could be used to treat one of the world's most drug-resistant superbugs has been discovered by a supercomputer using AI.
Artificial intelligence...
Good News in History, April 25
Today, millions of Italians will take to the streets and their backyard grills to celebrate Liberation Day, which marked the victory of the Partisans...
Woman Spontaneously Offers Homeless Man a Job on Her Farm Proving the Power of Kindness
When a woman struck up a conversation with an Ontario homeless man, she didn't imagine it would change his life forever.
After it became clear...
For 3 Hours Doctors Continued CPR on Toddler with No Pulse–Until Life Returned
When 3-year-old Waylon Saunders arrived at the hospital, he was already legally dead and had been for a while.
Found face-down in an icy backyard...
5-Year-old Who Emptied Piggybank for Earthquake Relief Now Wins $48Mil Lottery Jackpot at 18
A delightful story from northern Ontario saw a 5-year-old girl's good Karma wait 13 years to reward her.
Juliette Lamour won the state's second-largest lottery...
The Top 10 Acts of Kindness in 2022 Warmed Our Hearts and Restored Our Faith in Strangers and Neighbors
An act of kindness is like lighting a candle in a dark room, reminding everyone that such a point of light will always penetrate...
Best Friends Win Million Dollar Lottery and Spread the Wealth in Hometown to Help Others
Besties JoAnn MacQueen and Marlisa Mercer won a million dollars playing the lottery, and immediately decided to keep the good vibes rolling by giving...
Your Inspired Weekly Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
World’s Oldest Brain Has Been Found in Remains of a 3-Eyed Giant Prawn From Half-Billion Years Ago
The world's oldest brain has been found in the remains of a three-eyed prawn that swam the oceans more than half a billion years...
Rare Orchid Thought to Be Extinct in Vermont For 120 Years is Rediscovered – Biologists Call it ‘Astonishing’
Botanists with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department confirmed that they've discovered a population of small orchids believed to be extinct in Vermont since...
The Painting Paid for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches 50 Years Ago – Now Earns the Restaurant Thousands
When John Kinnear bought a selection of paintings for an impoverished Nova Scotia painter, his chief hope was that they might buy him a...
A Pod of Whales Adopted a Young Stray Narwhal – and They May Have Little ‘Narwhales’
It's rare to find a narwhal as far south as Canada's St. Lawrence river, but it does occasionally happen.
But when a narwhal travels so...