Best of nice things

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This is the place to sort, search and review all the classic What nice things are going on? moments. Results are sorted by vote count and month, at the moment you can provide your own vote number cutoff, browse different months, or filter all the results by a keyword.

The day-to-day updates are over at What nice things are going on? and all new contenders should be added there. Entries are automatically moved here.

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26the World 2020 has finally ended! (That should already say it all. What more can we say?)
24United KingdomScotland Scotland becomes the first country in the world to give free tampons and sanitary pads to everyone who needs them..
19United StatesTexas. "I'm not a cat" - Confused lawyer gets stuck with cat filter during virtual court case
17United KingdomEngland 2020 has been a great year for the recently reintroduced beavers in England.
15United Kingdom Noodles, an extremely cute guard dog, has won a comedy pet photography competition
15United StatesColorado. Voters in Colorado have approved a statewide family leave programme
14United States ‘Frankie the Adventure Goat’ has traveled over 60,000 miles across America in an epic road trip
12United Kingdom Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers workers, rather than self-employed
12United StatesKatherine Johnson, the African-American woman who pioneered American space flight and was one of the country's most brilliant mathematicians, gets some belated recognition with a spacecraft named after her.
12United StatesTexas. The February winter storm in Texas prompted citizens to launch the largest sea turtle rescue operation in history.
12Russia A dog interrupts a weather report and steals the correspondent's microphone.
12United StatesNew York. Rocky, an owl found trapped in a Christmas tree, has been rehabilitated and released back to the wild
11United StatesBiden says Keystone Pipeline to be cancelled on his first day in office
11EcuadorGalápagos tortoise found alive is from species thought extinct
11United KingdomEngland Two newborn kittens were spotted on the conveyor belt of a recycling plant just in time.
10United States California. A 17-year-old-girl confronts a bear to save her dogs and lives to tell the tale.
10AustraliaAustralia has now allowed some low-dose CBD preparations to be available over the counter. For context, most parts of Australia have made very few attempts to legalise or decriminalise cannabis in any capacity, and where medical cannabis was available, it was usually extremely time-consuming, difficult and expensive to access.
10United KingdomWales By the 16th century, all the beavers in Britain had been hunted to death. They have recently been reintroduced to England and Scotland. And now Wales.
10United States Department of Education restores disability student loan debt relief for some borrowers
9Nigeria Several remaining missing schoolgirls escape from Boko Haram
9United KingdomEngland By hiring out her goats to appear on Zoom meetings during lockdown, farmer Dot McCarthy has earned ₤50,000. That money has kept the farm open and has meant that none of the staff have had to be furloughed.
9United Kingdom The UK government's Action Plan for Animal Welfare will enshrine into law that animals can feel hunger and pain and are aware of their surroundings. It will make it illegal to export live animals for slaughter, import hunting trophies or keep primates as pets. And it will make microchipping cats compulsory/
9United Kingdom To tackle "built-in obsolescence", TV. washing machine and refrigerator manufacturers are now legally required to make spare parts available to customers in the UK so that their appliances can be fixed.
8United States Amateur investors buy GameStop stock and screw over Wall Street in the process
8United States A study finds that empathy training reduces recidivism rates
8United Kingdom England Two orange lobsters escape being sold as food when a customer recognizes them as being extremely rare. Only one in 30 million lobsters is orange.
8United Kingdom Scotland A library book is returned 53 years late with an anonymous letter of apology and ₤20. The money will be given to charity because the library is not currently imposing fines for books returned late.
8United States The percentage of American families with kids who report not having enough to eat fell dramatically after the first child tax credit payments
8United Kingdom Scotland Jake the dog was horribly abused and buried alive under a pile of rocks. He needed extensive surgery and six weeks of treatment. Now he's doing OK and has a permanent home with one of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals people who rescued him.
8United States The US flag has been reclaimed by Biden supporters as a symbol of unity, bigly discrediting the MAGA cult's alleged monopoly on US patriotism and their attempts to appropriate it as a divisive "with us or against us" pro-Trump symbol
7Kenyathe World Kenyan investors create bio-robotic arm prosthesis controlled by brain signals
7 United StatesConnecticut. Connecticut legalizes recreational pot
6United StatesCalifornia. Porpoise population rebounds after California bans gill nets
5 Gabon United Kingdom France Two gorillas born in captivity are believed to be the first to have a baby together in the wild.