2016 gave all of us many Ls. However, it wasn't that bad. Here's a list of actual good things that happened in 2016:

1. All the memes.

2.There's an Ebola vaccine now.

3. The rate of child mortality has gone down.

4. The survival rate for pancreatic cancer has increase by almost 10 percent.

5. Scientists found the gene that's responsible for ALS.

6. Suicide rates have gone down globally.

7. Leonardo DiCaprio finally got his Oscar.

8. The Ozone layer is healing itself.

9. Giant pandas aren't endangered anymore.

10. A solar powered plane flew around the world.

11.The rate of Malaria went down.

12. The rate of literacy in children has gone up to a 93 percent globally.

13. Manatees are also no longer endangered.

14. Wild Salmon are back spawning in the Connecticut river for the first time since the American Revolution.

15. Columbian white-tailed deer and green sea turtles are also no longer endangered.

16. Sea World no longer breeds captive killer whales.

17. Also humpback whales are no longer endangered/

18. Global aid is up by 7 percent.