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Congratulations, you've made it through another year of news.
We know it wasn't always easy, so here's a reward: our round-up of the moments that put a little smile on our faces in 2019.
Many of them, inevitably, involve animals.
Oil rig workers 220km (135 miles) off Thailand's coast got a shock in April when they spotted a brown dog paddling in the sea,
possibly after falling from a trawler. They plucked him to safety and named him Boonrod, a Thai word that roughly translates as "the saved one" or "survivor".
Runner-up (2)
In this case, the animals were the rescuers rather than the rescued (sort of).
Anticipating the threat of wildfires later in the year, staff at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California hired a hungry herd of 500 goats to eat flammable scrub around the building in May.
And so, when fires did strike in October, the library was saved because of the fire break the goats had created by eating the flammable scrub. Nice one, goats.
Back in August, millions of you read about the adventures of five-year-old Lucie, whose before-and-after photos from her first day back in school were picked up by a newspaper in her native Scotland, then shared around the world.
When her mum saw her return home, she asked what Lucie had been up to. "Nothing much," came the reply.
The pigs Jasmin Paris hallucinated
It was a close-run thing, pun intended. But all credit goes to Jasmin Paris, who broke the record for a 268-mile race
by more than 12 hours. While stopping regularly to express breast milk. And hallucinating. On only three hours' sleep.
In the middle of writing her PhD thesis.
Copywriter Josh Thompson could see the writing on the wall at work when he was called in for a meeting: he was facing redundancy.
His managers encouraged him to bring a "support person" to help cushion the blow, an option that is legally required in New Zealand.
But rather than bring a family member, a friend or even a pet, he splashed out NZ$200 (£100) on a clown called "Joe", who sat making animal balloons during the meeting. The screeching sound proved to be somewhat of a distraction.
"Boy, oh, boy, are they noisy," Josh said.
Runner-up Top marks to Eimi Haga, a Japanese student of ninja history who handed in a blank paper. Her professor realised the essay was written in invisible ink, following the ninja technique of "aburidashi", which involves spending hours soaking and crushing soybeans to make ink.
Han Young-hee has been delivering yoghurt and helping the elderly for 16 years
The South Korean women who deliver yoghurt from motorised fridges, and keep an eye out for the country's most isolated people.
When archaeologists began an investigation into a stone circle found in rural Aberdeenshire, they thought they had stumbled
across a site that was thousands of years old.
Runner-up
When South African comedian Trevor Noah presented the Best Picture nomination for Black Panther at the Oscars in February, he quoted a saying in the Xhosa language.
"Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka," he said, "which means: 'In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart.'"
The Biggles Prize for amazing aviation action Winner
Footage from inside the plane showed it striking birds after take-off
Shortly after take-off from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport in August, an Airbus jet with 233 people on board
struck a flock of gulls, causing both engines to fail.
With the jet full of fuel, the pilots managed to crash-land in a corn field in a belly-flop without lowering the wheels, to avoid debris flying off and rupturing fuel tanks.
There could be only one: the first ever photo of a black hole. Behold, the blazing space doughnut:
What's even more impressive is that the black hole is 500 million trillion kilometres away, and about three million times the size of our planet. Here's how the photo was taken.
Runner-up
This was a seriously close contest, but the discovery that men's left testicles are slightly warmer than their right is just edged out of first place by the black hole photo.
