Snarkless: Birthday Cards, New Moms, and 10,000 Pull-Ups

Snarkless – Because even we need a break from the madness. Once a day, we swallow our sarcasm (it burns, honestly) and deliver three legitimately good news stories—no cynicism, no side-eye, just pure, unfiltered positivity. It’s weird for us too, but hey, even the apocalypse deserves a little sunshine.

Here are a few more Snarkless stories making the rounds . . .

1.  The world record for pull-ups is now solidly back in American hands.  A guy in Utah named Truett Hanes first broke the record two years ago by doing 8,100 of them in 24 hours.  But then a guy in Australia did 500 more than that.

Another American named Doug Martin topped that record in September.  But Truett just snatched it back.  He did 10,001 this time.  Here’s a video.

2.  A Galapagos tortoise at the Philadelphia Zoo just became a first-time mom at age 97.  They say it’s a record for her species.  She’s lived at the zoo since 1932, and she’s finally living up to her name . . . it’s “Mommy.”

3.  A local news station in Kentucky did a story on two women who’ve been sending the same birthday card back and forth for 80 years. 

Pat DeReamer and Mary Wheaton met as kids in Indianapolis.  The tradition started on Pat’s 14th birthday in 1944.  She just got the same card for her 95th birthday on Tuesday.