The Antidote: Five Fun Things to Read About Today, July 13th

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Lost Bonnie won third prize in the rescue dog class.

We live in unusual times. It all gets a bit much some days. So every weekday we bring you a much needed dose of positivity to remind you that there is also inspiration, kindness and quirkiness.

Lost dog returns with prize

When the 5 year old beagle cross, Bonniewent missing from her home in Bolney, England, her owners never thought she would return with such a prize in hand, BBC news reports.

John Wilmer saw Bonnie on the side of the road when he took his two dogs to a show in Felbridge, England. In a hurry, he posted about Bonnie on Facebook and took her to the dog show.

Lost Bonnie placed third in the rescue dog class on the show.

After she was reunited with the beagle, her owner Paula Closier told the BBC they were “thrilled to find her safe and sound, and a winner too”.

“She’s had such a full life. When John brought her back to us with a rosette, we couldn’t believe it. It’s a shame she didn’t come first on the show,” she added.

Good Samaritans rescue two dozen people from capsizing boat

Nearly two dozen people were rescued by Good Samaritans when their chartered boat struck a bridge off the coast of New Jersey in the United States, Today.com reports.

After the impact, the chartered boat began to take water and swerve. Local people set up their boats, rescued all 22 people on board and brought them to safety.

How 27 people fit in a rickshaw

A video from Uttar Pradesh India shows: 27 people, including children and the elderly, getting off an auto rickshawafter local police stopped the vehicle for speeding, BBC News reports.

Usually, an auto rickshaw can only carry three passengers, while some are modified to fit six.

According to media reports, police chased the speeding vehicle and were “appalled to see more than two dozen passengers inside”.

The video of the police counting the number of people getting out of the vehicle has been posted on social media and you can watch it above.

NASA releases new images of dancing galaxies

On Wednesday (NZT) NASA has unveiled a new batch of images of its US$10 billion (NZ$16.29 billion) James Webb Space Telescope, the Associated Press reports.

The four photos show a series of cosmic beauty images, including a frothy blue and orange shot of a dying star.

An image of sparkling galaxies was released a day earlier for an event at the White House in Washington DC. That image showed a jumble of distant galaxies that goes deeper into the cosmos than mankind has ever seen.

Reunion with a ring after 53 years

After 53 long years, Dana Scott Laughlin, a woman in Alabama, United States, reunited with her high school class ring. †

Laughlin lost her ring while swimming in California’s Lake Berryessa after graduating from high school in 1969, UPI News reports. After 53 years, her son received a message saying that while fishing, a couple had found a ring on Lake Berryessa and were looking for its owner.

After looking at the pictures of the ring, Laughlin was able to confirm its identity, as the ring engraved her initials and the name of the school she attended.

“I just said I was so grateful, and I couldn’t believe she had found the ring after so many years. I think it was meant to be,” Laughlin told WPMI TV.