💸 It took David Clarke 10 years to decide what to do with the £100,000 (~$122,000) he inherited from his late mother. He put the decision into the hands of his neighbors, blindly mailing 600 residents letters and then putting together a panel from their responses to make the decision. He ended up splitting the money across four charities, each of which received £25,000 (~$31,000).

🛁 Archaeologists have made a "once-in-a-century" find in Pompeii, uncovering an ornate bathhouse buried under the ground for ~2,000 years.

♟️ Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi has won multiple national and international chess championships and is well on his way to becoming a grandmaster. Oh, and he’s only 13. Even more impressive? Tani and his family are refugees from Nigeria and were living in a homeless shelter when he won his first New York State championship.