00:00 The country is incredibly divided right now, and a lot of people have been expressing that
00:03 2016 is a horrible year.
00:05 And we get it.
00:06 Bowie, Prince, things that are too controversial to talk about on YouTube.
00:09 But thankfully, people online are coming together to express some things that have been positive
00:12 about the last 11 months.
00:14 Reddit user JumpXMan started an AskReddit thread in July, asking people to share some
00:18 positive events of 2016.
00:20 This week, Tumblr user HellTheHatter compiled a list of some of the best ones.
00:24 Here are a few of our favorites.
00:25 More than 800,000 people in India volunteered to plant 50 million trees, breaking the world
00:30 record.
00:31 The Ice Bucket Challenge from a couple years ago raised so much money that researchers
00:34 were able to find a new gene linked to ALS.
00:37 A plane made it around the world just on solar power.
00:41 Starbucks started donating all of its unsold food.
00:43 And Florida's endangered manatee population is rebounding.
00:49 Dumb sea cows.
00:50 I don't know if they deserve to rebound.
00:51 They just keep getting hit by propellers because they think they're other manatees.
00:55 Manatees are dumb, but they deserve to live.
00:58 How about that?
00:59 And the Cubs won the World Series.
01:00 Take that, haters!
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