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  1. Guy cosplays a Monster Hunter character creation screen

    43992 upvotes • comment • apr 08, 2018

  2. Mark Zuckerbergs booster seat

    43974 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2018

  3. A "Malaphor" is when you mix two metaphors or idioms, like "it's not rocket surgery." What's your favorite Malaphor?

    43972 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  4. TIL two of the founders of the punk band the Germs were classmates at an alternative high school where they were allowed to create their own class. They created a class for themselves called Fruit Eating in which they would go to a market, eat fruit for an hour, then return to school.

    43921 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2018

  5. Scientists report that six people with severe spinal cord injuries — three of them completely paralyzed — have regained use of their hands and fingers for the first time in years after undergoing a nonsurgical, noninvasive spinal stimulation procedure the researchers developed.

    43881 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2018

  6. Reviving an exhausted bumble bee with sugar water

    43839 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2018

  7. When you're high, you think everybody knows it although no one does, and when you're drunk you think no one knows it although everybody does.

    43827 upvotes • comment • apr 04, 2018

  8. Watercolor America

    43814 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  9. TIL George H.W. Bush ordered emergency airlifts of food and supplies to Somalia in 1992.“Operation Restore Hope,” to help the starving country by protecting food shipments from the warlords. By helping to end the famine, American forces saved around 100,000 lives

    43801 upvotes • comment • apr 24, 2018

  10. Shitty Robot Queen Simone Giertz: "I have a brain tumor."

    43733 upvotes • comment • apr 30, 2018

  11. Czechoslovakian wolf dog.

    43722 upvotes • comment • apr 05, 2018

  12. Every time I see this makes me happy no matter how shitty day I had.

    43703 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2018

  13. Not her first time

    43629 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2018

  14. Am i the only one?

    43615 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  15. TIL at the founding of the first McDonalds, Ray Krok and a Coca-Cola executive named Waddy Pratt entered into a "Gentleman's Handshake" agreement that all McDonalds would offer Coca-Cola exclusively. Both companies continue to honor this agreement.

    43613 upvotes • comment • apr 11, 2018

  16. Bionic squad

    43530 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2018

  17. I see your warthog, and I raise you this baby skunk.

    43500 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2018

  18. #SAVEMELANIA

    43496 upvotes • comment • apr 24, 2018

  19. Cat’s reaction to Tornado Warning System

    43474 upvotes • comment • apr 02, 2018

  20. A wholesome community

    43435 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2018

  21. TIL Patrick Bateman from 'American Psycho' was inspired by Tom Cruise... Christian Bale studied Cruise's mannerisms after seeing the actor give an interview, stating "he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes."

    43400 upvotes • comment • apr 24, 2018

  22. My three siblings and I have been color coded most of our lives. Yesterday, we put our money together and bought a Switch, with the appropriate colors for each of us.

    43387 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  23. I didnt want a cat but my wife did. So we compromised and got a cat. Best. Compromise. Ever.

    43381 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2018

  24. Barack Obama. Upvote this so that people see it when they Google “Barack Obama”.

    43381 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2018

  25. How a burger advertisement is filmed

    43358 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2018

  26. The Onion: Fans Excited As ‘Solo’ Trailer Sheds Light On Specifically How It Will Suck

    43343 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2018

  27. Arnold Schwarzenegger declares 'I'm Back' after waking up from open heart surgery

    43306 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2018

  28. Creature of the night...

    43247 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2018

  29. The photos my dad sends me of the new kitten he doesn’t want

    43238 upvotes • comment • apr 30, 2018

  30. Little pug gets its mind blown.

    43217 upvotes • comment • apr 30, 2018

  31. MRW I wake up on April 18 and realize tax returns were due yesterday

    43206 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2018

  32. Unvaccinated children are just organic humans with a shorter shelf life.

    43174 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2018

  33. 🔥 New Rule Announcement: The users in our community can directly impact the planet to preserve the nature we love, so from now on to post in /r/NatureIsFuckingLit users must first post proof verifying they have picked up a piece of trash outside. 🔥

    43114 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2018

  34. He offered to carry her roller skates. A year later, they were married! (1954)

    43108 upvotes • comment • apr 08, 2018

  35. Real time MRI of a talking person

    43088 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2018

  36. This sign in front of a bunch of Venus Flytrap.

    43077 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  37. Study: People with less political knowledge think they know a lot about politics

    43067 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2018

  38. TIL Pearl Jam's song Jeremy is based on the real-life classroom suicide of Jeremy Wade Delle of Texas, who was released from a mental hospital and sent back to school -- reportedly, once his insurance money ran out he was deemed "cured" .

    43060 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2018

  39. TIL Robin Williams wanted to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, but was turned down because J.K. Rowling and director Chris Columbus only wanted British and Irish actors.

    43052 upvotes • comment • apr 03, 2018

  40. Basketball connect 4

    43049 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  41. For the first time in 3 years, my daughter looked at the camera.

    43008 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2018

  42. "We'll let you live for now"

    43004 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  43. Infinity War Begins.

    43001 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2018

  44. The recently discovered Giant Squid Nebula in the constellation Cepheus

    42988 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2018

  45. Halle Berry at 51

    42983 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2018

  46. United States of Apathy: 2016 US Presidential Election Results if Abstention from Voting Was Counted as a Vote for "Nobody" [OC]

    42982 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2018

  47. Just picked her up yesterday! Meet Bubbles!

    42969 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  48. You haven't unlocked this area yet.

    42942 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2018

  49. My cousin’s legs after a day in the sun in ripped jeans

    42897 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  50. TIL Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher, sacrificed his life in order to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion. His telegraph said "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." He saved 300 lives.

    42764 upvotes • comment • apr 04, 2018

  51. TIL the Japanese word "arigata-meiwaku". It is the feeling you have when someone does you a favor you didn't want them to do, and which might have caused you trouble, but you have to act grateful anyway.

    42746 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2018

  52. People are great sometimes.

    42745 upvotes • comment • apr 08, 2018

  53. Nova Scotia filled its public Freedom of Information Archive with citizens' private data, then arrested the teen who discovered it

    42723 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2018

  54. Saying you've got OCD whenever you are slightly annoyed by some in-alignments is like saying you've got lung cancer every time you cough

    42716 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  55. This is Garbanzo. He checks on you when you're in the tub. He also can't control his toof.

    42637 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2018

  56. San Francisco man awarded $10 million after jury finds police framed him for murder

    42630 upvotes • comment • apr 07, 2018

  57. Stay petty, my friends.

    42626 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2018

  58. TIL English is "the universal language of the skies". All pilots must learn and use English, regardless of their country of origin.

    42574 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2018

  59. It's much worse: Facebook says almost every profile has had its data scraped by a third party

    42547 upvotes • comment • apr 04, 2018

  60. TIL The 8 hour workday was devised so that workers could evenly divide 24 hours between: "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest"

    42506 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2018

  61. Porn is now essentially a hegemony with legit and safe websites while recipes and artsy craftsy content is full of crazy pop-up traps and high-volume auto-playing ads.

    42475 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2018

  62. This little guy greeting the world

    42475 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  63. Sweden confirmed they actually have a sense of humor

    42454 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2018

  64. Hawaii becomes 12th state to ban gay conversion therapy for minors

    42450 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2018

  65. Cutting edge water technology that puts sea of thieves to shame!

    42399 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2018

  66. 'Too expensive' to delete millions of police mugshots of innocent people, minister claims. Up to 20m facial images are retained - six years after High Court ruling that the practice is unlawful because of the 'risk of stigmatisation'.

    42361 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2018

  67. Amazing Auriel cosplay (Heroes of the Storm)

    42350 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2018

  68. So my daughter did this to her shower. She's sort of into chemistry.

    42322 upvotes • comment • apr 07, 2018

  69. Bill Cosby guilty on all three counts in indecent assault trial, jury decides

    42268 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2018

  70. The onion getting cheeky today

    42223 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2018

  71. This TIME cover from May 2017 aged beautifully

    42209 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  72. Argentinian officers fired after claiming mice ate half a ton of missing marijuana

    42160 upvotes • comment • apr 11, 2018

  73. A little slice of good vibes

    42142 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2018

  74. Untangled wire, looped shadow

    42093 upvotes • comment • apr 11, 2018

  75. Winnie's strapped

    42081 upvotes • comment • apr 05, 2018

  76. Going a bit too fast

    42004 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2018

  77. Underwater Spider

    41992 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  78. U.S. has blood samples that show nerve agent in Syria gas attack

    41967 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2018

  79. Okay PUBG I get it, people make mistakes but assuming that you're the first shooter game to conceive the use of a frying pan as a melee combat weapon is outright wrong and stupid.

    41966 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2018

  80. Bro, jump through that fire hydrant, WCGW?

    41955 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  81. Learning about sex by watching porn is like learning to drive by watching Fast and Furious

    41860 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2018

  82. Van strikes numerous pedestrians in Toronto: police

    41847 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2018

  83. You can buy beer on my daughter’s toy cash register

    41686 upvotes • comment • apr 03, 2018

  84. First Image of John Travolta as a Crazed Stalker in Thriller 'Moose' - Directed by Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit

    41635 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2018

  85. Happy wedding shower, Jana. Love the sign!

    41634 upvotes • comment • apr 15, 2018

  86. Cracked Crackers arranged by Kristen Meyer

    41596 upvotes • comment • apr 14, 2018

  87. I’m half the woman I was last year and I feel 100 lbs lighter.

    41515 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2018

  88. Taylor Swift's Newfound Infatuation with Alcohol [OC]

    41498 upvotes • comment • apr 11, 2018

  89. TIL that the philosopher Kurt Gödel starved to death whilst his wife was in hospital because he had an obsessive fear of being poisoned and would only eat food that she cooked

    41477 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2018

  90. anybody said road trip?

    41455 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2018

  91. Machine designed to clean lakes and rivers from trash

    41423 upvotes • comment • apr 03, 2018

  92. This restaurant used to be a Blockbuster Video

    41383 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2018

  93. Love at first sight

    41381 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2018

  94. I wanna say around Michigan?

    41350 upvotes • comment • apr 08, 2018

  95. Giving a young fan a high five in slow motion

    41262 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2018

  96. Morocho , the legendary doggo Argentino that defeated a fully grown Puma in order to save 2 little girls from an attack near his village.

    41242 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2018

  97. This is an actual painting

    41219 upvotes • comment • apr 04, 2018

  98. He drives a hard bargain

    41218 upvotes • comment • apr 24, 2018

  99. Zuckerberg.exe has stopped working

    41209 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2018

  100. Girl lost both her hands as a baby. Here she is testing the precision and dexterity of her new 3D-printed bionics.

    41209 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2018