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Good Guys Do Finish Last – New York Doorman Gets Fired for Being Too Nice to Tenants

Posted: 09 Apr 2015 03:18 AM PDT

In a surprising turn of events, a doorman was recently fired from his job at a Long Island City luxury building for – get this – being too nice to the residents, proving yet again, that nice guys do seem to finish last!

41-year-old Ralph Body had been working at the building, called '27 on 27th', a few blocks away from the East River, ever since it opened two years ago. He wasn't just a regular doorman there, he went above and beyond his duties to make sure the residents were looked after. In his own words, he "gave his life" to the job.

Ralph would do anything the residents asked him to, without hesitation – right from checking on pets, to cleaning litter boxes, to watering plants. He even acted as a real-estate agent at times and showed some of the $4,200/month apartments to new tenants. "Everything I did, somebody asked me to do, or there was a need for it," he explained.

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11-Year-Old Autistic Boy Draws Amazingly Accurate World Map from Memory

Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:57 AM PDT

An 11-year-old autistic boy is cooking up an internet storm with his unbelievable ability to draw a map of the world freehand, from memory!

The boy's mom is a college professor, and he happened to sit in on one of her classes a few weeks ago. During the class, he apparently walked up to the whiteboard and reproduced the entire map of the world, complete with the names of the countries. The students in the classroom were so amazed that they immediately took pictures with their phones, which eventually got posted on news sharing site Reddit.

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Man Collects Food Restaurants Would Throw Away, Gives It to the Homeless

Posted: 09 Apr 2015 02:29 AM PDT

24-year-old New Yorker Robert Lee is one of those rare souls who give up their high flying careers, and use their business acumen to make a difference in the world. Lee is the cofounder of 'Rescuing Leftover Cuisine' (RLC), an initiative that makes an effort to end urban hunger by collecting wasted food from large establishments and giving it away to the poor.

Lee said that his interest in food conservation comes from his Korean immigrant parents, who insisted on clean plates and taught him never to waste food. Subsequently, he spent his college years volunteering for New York group Two Birds, One Stone, delivering extra dining hall food to homeless shelters. It was during this time that Lee realised he could streamline the system into a scalable model.

Today, Lee and his fellow 'rescuers' at RLC march the streets of New York City, collecting paper bags of food from restaurants and cafés that are willing to donate what they would have otherwise thrown away. The team is able to collect anywhere between five and 120 pounds of food a day, and they promptly deliver the haul to a nearby homeless shelter.

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