Some inspiring stories about extraordinary people.
Robin Williams had the perfect response when troops turned their backs on him during a 2007 USO Tour performance. During a performance in Kuwait, Robin Williams was smack dab in the middle of his performance when suddenly, the troops turned their backs on him. Robin Williams played it cool when his audience turned their back […]
Diagnosed with autism at two, Jacob’s teachers and doctors were astonished to learn he was able to teach calculus to college students. Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism at the age of […]
A 12-year-old girl from the U.K. has received a perfect score of 162 on an IQ test, placing her two points higher than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Of course, as Emory University reports, Einstein never took a modern IQ test, but it’s widely believed that he had an IQ of 160, the same […]
Born in the middle of a war zone, a victim of chemical warfare, and found by some nuns in a shoebox in a park, Emmanuel Kelly touched the hearts of people around the world with his moving performance of “Imagine” by John Lennon on The X Factor auditions. When Emmanuel Kelly stepped onto the stage […]
Imagine growing up in an evangelical Christian household, and imagine how it might feel to realize you’re gay. For many teenagers, that realization is terrifying. They fear they will be rejected by their families and communities. The sad truth is that many homosexuals are rejected by their families because of their sexual orientation. Matthew Vines […]