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98 year old finds out how old he really is.
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1989, with my 2 year old son at Kennedy Space Center. Yesterday he helped launch SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
101674 upvotes • 1547 comments • feb 08, 2018
I shouted at my kitty today for being naughty. 5 mins later I find my other kitty comforting her and glaring at me.
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1-up girl
94575 upvotes • 1428 comments • feb 08, 2018
Large ice crystals in Switzerland
90613 upvotes • 1163 comments • feb 08, 2018
He dressed up as a bulldozer for a jungle themed party
72065 upvotes • 838 comments • feb 08, 2018
57,234 rubber ducks being dumped into the Chicago River at the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby. Each duck cost $5 and whoever's duck crosses the finish line first wins a new car, with all proceeds benefiting the Special Olympics.
71842 upvotes • 1896 comments • feb 08, 2018
TIL that you are guaranteed a lawyer if you cannot afford one (in the U.S.) because a poor man was convicted unjustly, began reading law in prison, and wrote the Supreme Court, saying that he should have been given a lawyer despite his lack of money. He was retried and acquitted.
71233 upvotes • 2173 comments • feb 08, 2018
TIL While attacking a series of machine gun nests during WW2, Daniel Inouye had most his right arm shot off while arming a grenade. He pried the grenade out of his severed hand and destroyed a bunker with it before finishing the last resistance in the bunker with a one-handed Tommy gun burst.
70298 upvotes • 2878 comments • feb 08, 2018
TIL in 1987, Corona sales plummeted when a rumor spread that their workers were peeing in their beer. The company traced its origins back to Heineken, whom Corona sued for $3 million in damages, but their reputation still suffered and their product was referred to as “Mexican piss water” for years.
68793 upvotes • 4358 comments • feb 08, 2018