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Reddit (11 Sep 2023)

  1. Why would you do that

    75461 upvotes • 4692 comments • sep 11, 2023

  2. In Peru, police have detained a man who was carrying around an 800-year-old mummy in a travel bag. When questioned by authorities, the man claimed her name was “Juanita” and she was his girlfriend.

    42216 upvotes • 1170 comments • sep 11, 2023

  3. Disney movie.

    40189 upvotes • 2641 comments • sep 11, 2023

  4. On September 11, 2001, as four planes were overtaken by terrorists, Ben Sliney, the FAA's National Operations Manager on duty, made the unprecedented call to ground every commercial flight in the US. It was his first day on job.

    34609 upvotes • 939 comments • sep 11, 2023

  5. Rudy Giuliani is a moron.

    32675 upvotes • 982 comments • sep 11, 2023

  6. Making a car with nothing but stapler bullets

    31829 upvotes • 588 comments • sep 11, 2023

  7. me_irl

    31009 upvotes • 7291 comments • sep 11, 2023

  8. TIL In Jerusalem, there is an 'immovable ladder' under the window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. There since 1757, it cannot be moved without the agreement of all 6 church clerics. Once a chair was moved 20cm which resulted in a fistfight, so now nobody dares to alter the ladder.

    30806 upvotes • 1683 comments • sep 11, 2023

  9. Grass slides in Hulunbuir Prairie, Inner Mongolia

    30389 upvotes • 379 comments • sep 11, 2023

  10. TIL there is an IQ floor (80 points) to serve in the US Armed Forces and this requirement was relaxed during the Vietnam war. These people died at 5 times the rate of other Americans in the war.

    29713 upvotes • 2192 comments • sep 11, 2023