12 Feel-Good Facts
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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.
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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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3. 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.
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4. A male tiger in India adopted orphan cubs. It was the first time officials had ever seen that behavior.
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5. Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away 99% of his wealth--$6.3 billion to send impoverished kids to college.
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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.
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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.
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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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9. 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.
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10. Iraqi refugee in Australia lived on welfare money but returned all of it when he became successful.
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11. Stockholm has a speeding camera lottery wherein safe drivers can win money from the gathered fines of speeding drivers.
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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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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.
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