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It’s been a tough old year, hasn’t it?
Of course, we could go on and on and moan about the utter sh*tshow that has been 2016 - but that would be too easy.
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So instead, here are some of the downright amazing things that have happened instead.
An HIV cure came one step closer
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The Ozone layer has started to heal itself
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Team GB had its most successful Olympics in more than a century
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Londoners finally got the Night Tube
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A clothing company donated all the money it made on Black Friday to groups trying to protect the environment
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Andy Murray won Wimbledon again
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78 people in the UK donated a kidney to a total stranger
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The Ice Bucket Challenge funded a really important breakthrough into Motor Neurone Disease/ALS
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We got a new Harry Potter story
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Germany produced so much green energy that customers actually made money
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Leicester City had a fairytale ending to their Premier League campaign
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Leonardo DiCaprio FINALLY won an Oscar
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The 'saddest cat on the internet' found his forever home
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