Feel Good Friday

“The plan turned out a little too well, the company said in its third quarter earnings. More customers took advantage of the seafood chain’s ‘Ultimate Endless Shrimp’ than expected — the key reason for the chain’s roughly $11 million loss in the third quarter of 2023.” Red Lobster’s endless shrimp deal was too popular. (America, you still got it!)

+ “And thus began an unlikely friendship, an exchange of letters that began in 1967 and spanned years, continents, and deep cultural divides. Felder was 30 years old, a Black man raised in poverty in South Carolina who had lifted himself through college and law school and had become a captain in the U.S. Army. Olson, who is White, wrote to him about her school, which was in an apple orchard. About Camp Fire Girls, practicing piano and learning to play the French horn.” WaPo (Gift Article): A soldier in Vietnam and a girl wrote letters. Decades later, they finally met.

+ These penguins take 10,000 little naps a day — seconds at a time.

+ ‘I was told not to make eye contact with Tom Cruise’: meet the world’s most prolific film extra.

+ Detroit’s newest road can charge electric cars as they travel on it.

+ Principal adopts student who was sent to his office.