Russian Parents Accidentally Discover Their Baby Is Alive Seven Years After Being Told It Had Died
A couple in Volvograd, Russia, were recently reunited with the child they had though had died seven years ago, right after birth. What’s even more astonishing is that the startling revelation was the result of a completely accidental administrative error. In 2011, a young girl gave birth at a hospital in Volgograd, but was soon […]
The Loneliest Tree on Earth – A Fascinating Tale of Survival
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, a Sitka Spruce growing on New Zealand’s southernmost subarctic island, is the loneliest and most remote tree on Earth. Not only is it the only tree on Campbell Island, but the nearest other tree can be found over 200 kilometers away, on the Auckland Islands. Located about […]
California’s “Butt Lady” Picks Up 1 Million Discarded Cigarette Butts in Just Over 3 Years
Sally Dawly is a woman on a mission. Over the last three and a half years, the anti-littering activist has spent most of her free time picking up cigarette butts from the streets of her home city of Auburn, in California, and on this year’s Valentine’s Day she picked up her millionth butt. Dubbed the […]