# Good News Break

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## Posts
- [The town Santa Claus lost 40 pounds so he could donate a kidney to a stranger](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/the-town-santa-claus-lost-40-pounds-so-he-could-donate-a-kidney-to-a-stranger): Plus: locals who tripled the protected seascapes along 300 miles of Turkey's coast, the scientists who unlocked wolfsbane's medical potential after 2,000 years, and Japan's new fireworks that dissolve in water
- [He turned down half a billion dollars and gave the company to charity instead](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/he-turned-down-half-a-billion-dollars-and-gave-the-company-to-charity-instead): Plus: HIV infections and AIDS deaths at their lowest levels in 30 years, self-healing contact lenses that repair scratches with UV light, and the longest predator exclusion fence in the Pacific protecting Hawaii's rarest seabirds
- [A stranger spent his family inheritance on a $15,000 piano for a boy he'd never met](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/a-stranger-spent-his-family-inheritance-on-a-15-000-piano-for-a-boy-he-d-never-met): Plus: John Adesoye, who graduated as a nurse at 64 after studying alongside his son, the Okefenokee Swamp joining the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone on the UNESCO list, and Alberta's sniffer dogs stopping invasive mussels at boat inspection stations
- [16-year-old lifeguard leads heroic rescue](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/16-year-old-lifeguard-leads-heroic-rescue): Plus: a Wisconsin stranger who handed three stranded rock musicians his truck keys and walked away, a chihuahua that wouldn't stop pawing at his owner's arm until she found the cancer, and Mars just got stranger
- [A lynx was rescued from war-torn Ukraine and felt grass under her paws for the first time](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/a-lynx-was-rescued-from-war-torn-ukraine-and-felt-grass-under-her-paws-for-the-first-time): Plus: all 11 aboard a seaplane that crashed and caught fire in Puget Sound survived, an enzyme that could clean up America's abandoned mine sites, and Japan's earthquake response included reuniting families with lost pets
- [She spotted a disabled veteran limping across the tarmac and posted a video. Strangers raised $180,000 to help him retire](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/she-spotted-a-disabled-veteran-limping-across-the-tarmac-and-posted-a-video-strangers-raised-180-000): Plus: a 14-year-old Montana rancher who lassoed a drowning man on the Yellowstone River, Africa's wildfire season quietly getting shorter, and global hunger below 8% for the first time since the pandemic
- [He started taking his baby daughter to the library every week. Now dozens of Atlanta dads show up together](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/he-started-taking-his-baby-daughter-to-the-library-every-week-now-dozens-of-atlanta-dads-show-up-tog): Plus: 3,000 free eye surgeries in Trinidad in 12 days, tiny bamboo bridges that doubled a crab population in Taiwan, and Serbia's national bird back from the brink
- [Ghost nets have been strangling the ocean floor for decades. Hyundai and Healthy Seas just turned them into car floor mats](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/ghost-nets-have-been-strangling-the-ocean-floor-for-decades-hyundai-and-a-team-of-divers-just-turned): Plus: American Indian schools hit their highest graduation rates in history, a Texas ranch that lets you control a telescope from your living room, and how Micronesia went from one internet provider to dozens
- [Scientists may have just found the first moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/scientists-may-have-just-found-the-first-moon-orbiting-a-planet-outside-our-solar-system): a 71-year-old grandmother who only learned to swim after retiring, Europe's air quality dramatically cleaner, and the Indian grey hornbill back in Gir after 60 years
- [She performed for 40 years. Now Portugal's last circus elephant has 1,000 acres to herself](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/she-performed-for-40-years-now-portugal-s-last-circus-elephant-has-1-000-acres-to-herself): Plus: the first puffin chick born on England's south coast in three decades, a 350-year-old garden that just reappeared under parched grass at Chatsworth House, and why states are starting to make data centers pay their taxes
- [He broke his neck diving into a pool. Four years later, he can pet his dog again](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/he-broke-his-neck-diving-into-a-pool-four-years-later-he-can-pet-his-dog-again): Plus: the avocados hiding in Nicaragua that could save the ones on your toast, five new marine reserves off New Zealand's South Island, and India's first private rocket reaching orbit
- [For decades, his family ate dinner on it. Turns out it was a 200-year-old imperial diploma](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/for-decades-his-family-ate-dinner-on-it-turns-out-it-was-a-200-year-old-imperial-diploma): Plus: an off-duty Texas firefighter who made the grab of his career on the 4th of July, Mexico's six-year drought finally breaking, and a 14-year-old who stopped to help a stranger in 103-degree heat
- [He called his shot at the start of the year. Then he broke a 27-year-old world record in the mile](https://newsletter.goodnewsnetwork.org/p/he-called-his-shot-at-the-start-of-the-year-then-he-broke-a-27-year-old-world-record-in-the-mile): Plus: the 2-year-old who became her sister's bone marrow donor, a coral reef off West Africa that scientists assumed was dead, and a new monkey species with orange lips found for the fifth time in 75 years