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A Little Bit of Awesome: 8/12/2020 Edition

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A Little Bit of Awesome: 8/12/2020 Edition

There’s video of a hotel worker narrating surveillance footage of herself using the Heimlich maneuver to save a guy’s life. But check out how bored she sounds while describing the life-changing event.


Here’s a grandma telling the not-so charming story of how grandpa proposed . . . by “throwing the ring” at her.


The host of “Catfish” on MTV, Nev Schulman, left a $926 tip for a pregnant waitress at the Denver airport.

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There’s a 10-year-old artist in the U.K. named Daisy Watt who’s so good, her paintings sell for thousands of dollars. And she donates ALL of it to charity. One of her paintings recently raised over $2,000 for healthcare workers. And in the last three years, she’s raised more than 60 grand for different nonprofits. Her mom says she was already really good at age six.

10-Year-old Mini-Monet Fetches Tens Of Thousands For Her Paintings – And Donates All The Money


 

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