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A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/25/2020 Edition

Elizabeth Pearce is a professor at The University of Iowa, and she sent out an email to students last week,…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/24/2020 Edition

These Dad’s are awesome. They were bored back in April, so they started baking cookies and handing them out to…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/23/2020 Edition

These volunteers are awesome. They have taken to the streets of New York to hand out over 10,000 backpacks to…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/20/2020 Edition

Winston is awesome. He’s a dachshund from Colorado who saved the life of his best doggo friend Mijo, after a…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/19/2020 Edition

Ryan Ledbetter is awesome. Ryan saw on Facebook that 93-year-old James Crowley had lost his wedding ring while doing yard…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/18/2020 Edition

Randy and Amy Oleynik are awesome. They’re a father and daughter duo who just rode those old-fashioned giant, front wheel…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/17/2020

There’s a guy online, who places a key under his welcome mat in front of his house. And you might…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/16/2020 Edition

Zoom meetings for work are just an everyday thing any more. But they can lead to some awesome moments, like…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/13/2020

Julie Loving from Chicago is awesome. She’s 51-years-old, and just gave birth to her own grandchild. Julie’s daughter, Breanna, couldn’t…

A Little Bit of Awesome: 11/12/2020 Edition

Elton Goo is awesome. Elton was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2016. And when the pandemic hit, he was…

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