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.
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| 26 |  2020 has finally ended! (That should already say it all. What more can we say?) |
| 24 |   Scotland becomes the first country in the world to give free tampons and sanitary pads to everyone who needs them.. |
| 19 |   "I'm not a cat" - Confused lawyer gets stuck with cat filter during virtual court case |
| 17 |  2020 has been a great year for the recently reintroduced beavers in England. |
| 15 | Noodles, an extremely cute guard dog, has won a comedy pet photography competition |
| 15 |  Voters in Colorado have approved a statewide family leave programme |
| 14 | ‘Frankie the Adventure Goat’ has traveled over 60,000 miles across America in an epic road trip |
| 12 | Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers workers, rather than self-employed |
| 12 | Katherine 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. |
| 12 | The February winter storm in Texas prompted citizens to launch the largest sea turtle rescue operation in history. |
| 12 |  A dog interrupts a weather report and steals the correspondent's microphone. |
| 12 |  Rocky, an owl found trapped in a Christmas tree, has been rehabilitated and released back to the wild |
| 11 | Biden says Keystone Pipeline to be cancelled on his first day in office |
| 11 |  Galápagos tortoise found alive is from species thought extinct |
| 11 | Two newborn kittens were spotted on the conveyor belt of a recycling plant just in time. |
| 10 |  A 17-year-old-girl confronts a bear to save her dogs and lives to tell the tale. |
| 10 |  Australia 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. |
| 10 |  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. |
| 10 | Department of Education restores disability student loan debt relief for some borrowers |
| 9 |  Several remaining missing schoolgirls escape from Boko Haram |
| 9 | 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. |
| 9 | 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/ |
| 9 | 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. |
| 8 | Amateur investors buy GameStop stock and screw over Wall Street in the process |
| 8 | A study finds that empathy training reduces recidivism rates |
| 8 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 8 | The percentage of American families with kids who report not having enough to eat fell dramatically after the first child tax credit payments |
| 8 | 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. |
| 8 |
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 |
| 7 |  Kenyan investors create bio-robotic arm prosthesis controlled by brain signals |
| 7 |  Connecticut legalizes recreational pot |
| 6 | Porpoise population rebounds after California bans gill nets |
| 5 |   Two gorillas born in captivity are believed to be the first to have a baby together in the wild. |