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Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal teamed up with a cop to play basketball with neighborhood kids after admiring his treatment of them in a viral video.
Animal Service Officers couldn't believe what this poor pelican tried to eat all at once.
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The world could learn a lot from this Florida special education teacher. He doesn't start his lessons until he's complimented every child in his class.
An eco-friendly housing complex for the formerly homeless has opened a fine-dining restaurant that serves food from the community's farm.
With a new discovery scientists could stop cancer's growth in a lab, reversing the disease's progress and restoring healthy tissue in it's place.
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Wheeliz pairs the owners of "adapted" cars—handicap accessible vehicles with lifts—to people who need them. It's like "Uber" for people with disabilities.
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