Good News: Wholesome experience with stranger; UK museum rectifies colonial past; and more

As world battles through COVID-19 pandemic, mental and physical challenges for millions across world have only escalated each month. With such unforeseen challenges, people are trying to cope up with anxiety and gloom because of ‘negativity’ surrounding m. refore, some good news at end of day can brighten mood. Here’s a compilation of positive news stories that can help encour and lift up spirits amid such unprecedented dark times. 

54-year-old woman decides to join university 

A woman’s tweet about joining a university in her 50s is w doing rounds of internet. It all started after Emma Preston, a resident of United Kingdom, took to social media to anunce that she h decided to educate herself at of 54. In tweet, Preston revealed that she has got herself enrolled in a four-year course in Television Production at University of Central Lancashire. t only did her tweet captured everybody’s attention but also triggered a conversation where people shared stories of getting educated later in life.

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British museum seeks to rectify colonial past 

Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum revealed major changes to displays as part of "decolonisation process" as it prepares to reopen its doors after months of COVID-19 induced lockdown. After a three-year-long comprehensive review led by its director, Laura Van Broekhoven, museum has decided to remove artefacts from its displays, particularly those that are closely tied to British Imperial expansion. museum will open for public from September 22 onwards. 

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88-year-old man vows to walk 24,901 miles to raise funds

A man in his late 80s has decided to complete a walk, he h started more than 30 years ago, in order to raise funds for Mattapoisett Land Trust to secure more lands for conservation purposes in Massachusetts, USA. man named Br Hathaway h started walking around his town in 1988 after his doctor vised him to do so finding him at risk for heart disease and diabetes. 

Recently, he decided to calculate total distance he has covered so far and discovered he was just a few miles from completing 24,901 miles, a distance equivalent to earth's circumference. According to a GoFundMe p that has been set up to raise money for abovementioned cause, Br on September 12 was 57 miles away from completing target. 

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One of largest kwn T-rex skeleton set to be auctioned

skeleton of one of largest kwn Tyransaurus rexes (T-rex) nicknamed ‘Stan’ is set to be auctioned in New York on October 6. According to British auction house Christie’s, disaur skeleton, which is around 40-feet, is approximately 67 million years old and it was discovered in 1987 in South Dakota by amateur palaeontologist Stan Sacrison. skeleton is one of most complete T-rex specimens’s ever found and it is believed that it could set a record for a sale of its kind. 

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Heart-melting experiences with strangers

A thre on Reddit community has commenced a discussion about memorable interactions people have h with strangers. People are reminiscing how y may have found some of ir best friends, or why it never worked out, or just plainly appreciating “kind deed” done by an anymous somebody. 

Posted by user named Epices, under subreddit AskReddit, post has amassed nearly 55k upvotes and has a wide array of experiences narrated by people about thrilling, awkward, long-lasting, but most of all kind encounters that y’ve h with strangers during course of ir lifetimes. 

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