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77-year-old substitute teacher who lives in his car gifted $27,000 check by former student
A former substitute teacher who was living in his car was gifted with a $27,000 check by a former student. Jose Villarruel, lovingly known as "Mr. V" by his students, turned 77 years old on Thursday. His former student, Steven Nava, now 21, decided to arrange a celebration for Villarruel.
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A 26-Year-Old Gave Birth From an Embryo Frozen for 24 Years
Emma Wren Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born a few days after Thanksgiving in 2017, more than 25 years later. It’s the longest an embryo is known to have been frozen before being born as baby. In fact, the embryo that became Emma is only a year younger than the woman who gave birth to her, Tina Gibson. “This embryo and I could have been best friends,” Gibson, now 26, told CNN. Tina and her husband “adopted” the frozen embryo after learning he was likely infertile.
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The women with superhuman vision
As Concetta Antico took her pupils to the park for an art lesson, she would often question them about the many shades she saw flashing before her eyes. “I’d say, ‘Look at the light on the water – can you see the pink shimmering across that rock? Can you see the red on the edge of that leaf there?’” The students would all nod in agreement. It was only years later that she realised they were just too polite to tell the truth: the colours she saw so vividly were invisible to them.
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50,000-Pound Whale Tucks Scuba Diver Under Its Fin to Protect Her from Nearby Shark
A marine biologist and her team were delighted to encounter a 50,000-pound (approx. 22,680-kilogram) whale on one of their snorkeling adventures. But delight soon turned to great fright, as the giant whale started pushing against her with its head. Whilst things looked like they could have turned ugly, it turned out that the massive whale had another purpose, and no one got hurt at the end of the day.
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He danced for son in a viral video and now his son is cancer free
Nearly three million people have viewed a video of dad Kennith Thomas dancing for his toddler son, Kristian. But the New Jersey father says his dance moves were for an audience of one — a way to encourage Kristian as he was being treated for acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL). The support Thomas showed his young son paid off: In November, Thomas and his wife, Josilyne, received the news that Kristian, who was diagnosed with AMKL at just 14 months old, was cancer free.
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Woman gives birth using womb transplanted from dead donor
A woman in Brazil has successfully given birth after receiving a womb from a dead donor, the first time such a procedure has been successful. While researchers in countries including Sweden and the US have previously succeeded in transplanting wombs from living donors into women who have gone on to give birth, experts said the latest development was a significant advance.
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‘I’ll never forget him’: Alaskan husky rescues injured hiker crossing frigid Eagle River along Crow Pass Trail
A 7-year-old Alaskan husky named Nanook is being credited with helping rescue a cold, injured hiker Wednesday night in the Eagle River Valley. "He's Alaska's version of Lassie," said Lt. Eric Olsen with the Alaska State Troopers.
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How an Iowa teenager used an Etch A Sketch to help land spots at MIT and Caltech
College admission has become increasingly competitive, but one Des Moines teenager found a unique way to distinguish himself from the pack. Dezell Turner, a senior at East High School and Central Academy, submitted a video explaining the history of calculus on an Etch A Sketch when applying to some of the country's top engineering and technology schools. The 18-year-old recently learned he'd been accepted to MIT and Caltech — two of his "dream" colleges.
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India Man Plants Forest Bigger Than Central Park to Save His Island
Since 1979, Jadav Payeng has been planting hundreds of trees on an Indian island threatened by erosion. In this film, photographer Jitu Kalita traverses Payeng’s home—the largest river island in the world—and reveals the touching story of how this modern-day Johnny Appleseed turned an eroding desert into a wondrous oasis. Funded in part by Kickstarter, "Forest Man" was directed by William Douglas McMaster and won Best Documentary for the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.See more photos of the world's largest river island.
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The teen 'downloading music into his head'
Michael Fuller is autistic and could play Mozart by ear aged 11. Now he's a classical composer.
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Heroic midwife uses Stanley knife to cut choking boyfriend's airway open
He was "as good as dead anyway" so his girlfriend made a risky, split-second decision to stop him choking at a barbecue - she cut his airway with a Stanley knife. Hastings man Izak Bester said the emergency tracheotomy could have had major personal and professional implications for his girlfriend Sarah Glass - a midwife. "She's definitely a hero - it's pretty amazing but if I died or been brain damaged she would have carried that for the rest of her life," Bester said.
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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Create Healthcare Company to Cut Costs
Amazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co will form a healthcare company aimed at cutting costs for their U.S. employees, they said on Tuesday, sending shares in the broad healthcare sector sharply lower.
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These dogs begged to be let outside. Then they saved a woman from freezing to death
Two labradoodles are being credited with saving an elderly woman’s life. The dogs, Adam and Eva, woke their owners at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. They strangely tugged on their owner’s sleeve, insisting to be let outside. The owners, Lonnie and Susan Chester, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot that they were at first wary of letting them out into the snowy yard of their Norvell Township, Mich., home, worried something dangerous was alarming the dogs.
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Elon Musk Shares Incredible Video of Tesla Model X Pulling a Truck in Snow
The Tesla Model X is a serious performer. On Friday, CEO Elon Musk shared a video on his Twitter page of the company’s all-electric sports utility vehicle pulling a semi truck in the snow. Yep, that’s right. The video, shared by Musk via Electrek, showed a truck stuck in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday, where blistering cold lows of 10 degrees Fahrenheit brought as much as six inches of snow. Model X owner Ben Spreen, filmed by his friend Kyle Connor, pulled the truck up to the top of the incline.
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The material so black your eyes can't see it
Touted as the darkest man-made substance in the world, Vantablack is so uncomfortably black the human eye can't quite decipher what it is seeing. It is thought to be the closest thing to a black hole we will ever experience. That's because Vantablack is not a color, it's the almost complete absence of color. Since this super black material was first developed by Surrey NanoSystems three years ago, the British firm has been flooded with inquiries from designers, architects and aerospace engineers -- and even people who want to wrap themselves in it or eat it.
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Dying mother given months to live is saved by ex-husband's new wife
A woman who was given four months to live by doctors, has been told her Stage Four cervical cancer has almost disappeared, after her ex-husband's new wife led a fundraising campaign to pay for specialist treatment. Nicola Hitchen was told in March that there was nothing more that could be done for her. But rather than give up, the 41-year-old from Great Boughton in Cheshire booked five 10-day sessions at a pioneering chemotherapy centre in Turkey.
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Calgary man pays off $85,000 in debt by living in travel trailer for years
A Calgary man who decided to save money by living for years in a travel trailer named Wanda — even when temperatures plunged to –40 C — has finally paid off $85,000 in debt.
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Goat-herding dog refuses to leave flock amid California wildfires
A fearless goat-herding dog who refused to abandon his flock amid the deadly wildfires in California miraculously survived the flames that torched the property completely. Roland Tembo Hendel said his family and he were shocked to see that their dog, Odin, his sister Tessa, and their eight bottle-fed goats survived the deadly Tubbs Fire that destroyed his property in Sonoma County.
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98-Year-Old Man Clears Masters Exam In Economics In Bihar
In what could be a first of its kind, 98-year-old Raj Kumar Vaishya has passed the MA (economics) examination from Patna's Nalanda Open University (NOU) with a second division. Mr Vaishya, who graduated in 1938, expressed his delight on Tuesday at this achievement.
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Fishing Buddies Use Deceased Friends Ashes To Make Boilies & Catch...
Its with great pride that I get to tell this story and I count myself very fortunate to have been a part of this wonderful tale of friendship. In February 2015, a group of fishing buddies (Ron, Cliff & Paul) decided to go fishing in Thailand at a place called Jurassic Mountain Resort & Fishing Park. I was a regular visitor to Jurassic Mountain and happened to be fishing at the same time as the three friends. We all had the same intentions, catching the biggest Carp in the lake, which at the time was a 154lb Siamese Carp.
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