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A Little Bit of Awesome: 10/20/2020 Edition

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A Little Bit of Awesome: 10/20/2020 Edition

Three teenage girls in Ireland spent three months in lockdown working on an app called Memory Haven that helps people with dementia. It’s a collection of games and tasks that help prevent memory loss. And it just won them a huge international competition, beating out 1,500 other teams from 62 countries.


A Florida couple named Joe and Eve Loreth have been married 60 years. And they just reunited after seven months apart. Joe got really sick in March with an unknown illness, and Eve couldn’t visit him because of the pandemic. He finally moved into her new retirement home last Wednesday, and a caretaker got the reunion on video.


A 102-year-old woman in Maryland went skydiving for the first time.
Vivian “Millie” Bailey, 102, a World War II veteran being featured on the American Heroes Channel’s Honor Flight Heroes, was asked by producers if there was a bucket list item she had never crossed off.


A baby that switches from crying to laughing . . . and then back to crying. And then switches back and forth two more times.


An outfielder in the Chinese Professional Baseball League let a batter run the bases, thinking he’d hit a home run . . . before revealing that he actually caught the ball.

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