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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This guy built over 1,000 homes for squirrels and fitted some of them with cameras so he could see how they live

Welcome to the cutest reality TV show out there

Writer: Ian

[Jana @MTDillard3712]

I never dreamed you could do that kind of artwork with vegetables.
But I think it’s really pretty and certainly creative.

[7 Numara JK @enginceyhan1903]

Dün gece kızım ayağına karınca geldi diye 15 dakika ağladı

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A reminder that most of what we worry about never actually happens

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

Genius Party Decor Hack 🎉

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

“Sorry I couldn’t go to work… a cat landed on my head, then a dog wearing shoes tried to defend me.” 😭😂

[yeah yeah @Citygrlup]

Family Farm Prank - Ozzy Man Reviews https://t.co/10SIuDqHR1 via @YouTube

[hani @neco_momochan]

夫と、どハマりしてるんだけど

くだもの凍らして、生クリームいれて
アイスにして食べるの

ほんとに、めっちゃくちゃ美味しい。

ちょっと贅沢なんだけど、
これが楽しみで夏も頑張れてる！！！

次はマンゴーもいいなぁ🤤🥭🩷

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This woman has had it with all of us who still can’t fold a fitted sheet.

She’s yelling the whole time like she’s personally offended that some of us are still out here balling them up and shoving them in the closet. It feels exactly like my mom teaching me for the 100th time while I stand there pretending I understand.

Fitted sheets remain my greatest enemy… and she’s not letting any of us off the hook.

Be honest… are you still just balling yours up?

Life is too short to fight with a fitted sheet, just ball it up and hide it under your nicely folded flat sheet. That's what I think.

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

A woman had Netflix for 6 years.

She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.

Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.

Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.

She said "it feels like a completely different app."

He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."

Here's every setting he changed 🧵

[yeah yeah @Citygrlup]

@Worldsource24 @lookner

[yeah yeah @Citygrlup]

@NewcomerCindi @JLRINVESTIGATES Which is…???

[yeah yeah @Citygrlup]

@puddleofzebras @JLRINVESTIGATES “Them’s” is not sure either.

[Sıradışı Bilgiler @bilgibilgi_1]

Hindistanlı bir ev kadınının kabak pişirme yöntemi sosyal medyada gündem oldu: “Eti aratmayan lezzet” olarak yorumlandı.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[yeah yeah @Citygrlup]

@EndGameWW3 Darwin about to do its thing

[Crystal Hope @CrystalHope1979]

An 11-year-old boy. One crochet hook. 60 skeins of yarn. No pattern. Two weeks. 🇺🇸

While juggling tennis camps and baseball games, Grayson poured his heart into crocheting this stunning American flag blanket—just in time to celebrate America’s 250th Independence Day. 🧨

No fancy instructions, just pure determination and love for his country. The result is a beautiful family heirloom that proves some of life’s greatest treasures are still made by hand. 🇺🇸✨

Proud of this kid and the quiet power of creativity in the next generation.
What an inspiration! 👏

[Russ @russhamerboy]

@250YearsAgoLive It's too bad we don't actually believe any of it now.