The Rescue That Became a Statue

During an Easter egg hunt in Surrey in 2016, about 30 kids spotted two men sprinting across a field with a police helicopter circling overhead. Without being told, the children lay down in the dirt and formed a giant human arrow pointing the helicopter straight at the fleeing suspects. Both men were caught. The crew landed to thank the kids — and the children shared their own Easter chocolate with them.

During the Gobi Desert ultramarathon, a stray dog ran over 77 miles alongside British runner Dion Leonard. After the race, she went missing, but with 20 volunteers and a two-week search, Dion found her and now happily lives with him in Edinburgh.

If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.

In 1965, four-year-old Roger Lausier was drowning at a beach in Salem, Massachusetts when a woman named Alice Blaise pulled him out of the water. Nine years later, Roger was on an inflatable raft when he heard a woman scream that her husband was drowning. He paddled out and kept the man afloat until help arrived. The man was Bob Blaise. Alice's husband. Same beach. Same family. Nine years apart.