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Reddit (May 2018)
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TIL that Charles Dickens’ novels were hugely popular even among the illiterate poor. They would pool their money to hire a reader, and then gather together to listen to the stories.
63641 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018
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Behold!
63555 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018
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Fishy tricks
63519 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018
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Hardcore Pokemon hunter grandpa
63359 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018
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Sometimes life is better than a movie
63355 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018
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There are two types of girl
63293 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018
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This is the most likely scenario
63289 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018
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Dude just whipped out this desk on the subway and started his meeting
63176 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018
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How I like to imagine Reddit bans go down.
63175 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018
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Golden boy discovers a new toy
63123 upvotes • comment • may 18, 2018
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TIL Wendy's chocolate Frosty is actually half chocolate and half vanilla because owner Dave Thomas thought full chocolate would be too overpowering a flavor paired with their burger and fries meal.
63123 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018
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A friend went for a walk the other night and saw this woman just standing on a roof
62955 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018
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My boyfriend’s aunt commissioned her coworker to do a family portrait for her mother. 6 months & $50 later... worth it.
62853 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018
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Global warming: April was 400th straight warmer-than-average month
62818 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018
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Ambien-maker to Roseanne: Racism is not a side effect of our drug
62733 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018
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TIL after Nicole van den Hurk's death, her stepbrother falsely confessed to the killing in order to get her body exhumed for DNA tests, leading to the arrest and prosecution of her real attacker
62689 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018
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It's over Anakin!
62639 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018
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TIL that at least twice, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has been on location reporting, but needed to step in as a neurosurgeon: once on a Marine in Iraq, the other on a little girl injured during the Haitian earthquake.
62587 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018
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TIL of Melanism, the opposite of Albinism. Creates some really cool looking animals.
62527 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018
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Canola meadow
62410 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018
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Dad started putting in new toilet. Walked away for a few minutes and came back to this.
62150 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018
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Backwards bike flip
62136 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2018
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How dare you?
62064 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018
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Getting the perfect hair cut
62003 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018
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My wife gave me this Bob Ross book. This photo was inside.. ..
61990 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018
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Remember the “overly attached girlfriend” meme? This is her now.
61934 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018
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Didn’t notice until after I stole the pen. Good work Jerry.
61880 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018
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Officer Jenkins
61753 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018
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LPT: find someone's locked phone? Turn it in to their carrier. They will locate the owner by serial number. This LPT makes you a bro and returns the phone the fastest way to its owner who really just wants the photos. (Talking to you who found my phone in White Mountains, California last weekend)
61726 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018
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Wholesome simpsons
61719 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018
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30 Years and a generation apart. My dad with my older brother above, and my brother and his firstborn below.
61682 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018
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Down 212lbs!! Starting weight 500lbs- Next goal is 225
61623 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018
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Hey Reddit thank you so much for all the love for my car! Its much appreciated!
61604 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018
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Fuzzy Black Hole
61514 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018
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camping buddies ❤
61401 upvotes • comment • may 04, 2018
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TIL after a Black female postmaster was wrongly pressured out of her post in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her federal salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail to Greenville, 30 miles away
61377 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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Peer pressure as an adult is seeing your neighbor mow their lawn.
61303 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018
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My boy climbing an old rotten tree stump looks like a giant climbing mountains.
61240 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018
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Kids get a $2 discount if they read a book aloud to this barber in Michigan while he sorts them out
61161 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2018
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The game within the game
61118 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018
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Driving under hot air baloons
61037 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018
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Crack in Hawaiian streets spewing lava
60921 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018
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Manual turbo
60709 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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Doesn't have a license and already a better driver than most.
60709 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018
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I come into the living room to see my wife in her wedding dress...watching the royal wedding.
60649 upvotes • comment • may 21, 2018
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Map stabbers have to be stopped!
60573 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2018
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Street sweeper sweeping a stray dog
60571 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018
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Harold showing off his mushroom
60489 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018
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I recorded and overlaid my last 46 attempts at the final level of N.
60465 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018
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Gamer bet if the new Bethesda reveal was not Fallout 3 Remastered, he'd drink a whole bottle of Tabasco sauce - he kept his promise.
60461 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018
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Australia and Netherlands formally accuse Russia of responsibility for downing MH17 passenger jet in 2014
60460 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018
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North Korea will open air space, invite media to cover dismantlement of nuclear test site
60415 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018
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Loves the water, but does not know how to swim... so he's stuck in the kiddie pools
60318 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018
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Seems like a legit form of measurement
60250 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018
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She's not the subtlest of photobombers
60033 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018
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His name is Meep, he's a Dachshund and he's the runt of the litter
59862 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018
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He's so proud of his catch until he realizes...it's all a lie
59822 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018
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Well played Amber
59663 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018
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NBC Picks up Brooklyn 99 for a sixth season
59638 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018
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A true purpose of the recently erected statue in Warsaw, Poland
59632 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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My girlfriend found an old ticket stub of hers to the top of the World Trade Center dated 08/11/01.
59624 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018
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Professor Oak
59602 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018
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TIL You are 10 times more likely to get bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
59343 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018
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This tabasco tray on our pizza
59218 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018
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I had the pleasure of painting this handsome older gentleman’s portrait. This is Bruno!
59117 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018
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Same place, remastered for 2018
59094 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018
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My son at one month old and his 97-year-old Korean great grandmother
59000 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018
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Just made this format, have I struck gold?
58999 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018
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My blind dog when he gets exited
58906 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018
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Cherry Blossom Trees in Germany
58896 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018
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Comic Con is the best way to see what your favorite characters would look like if they let themselves get out of shape.
58884 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018
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Lucasfilm congratulates Marvel Studios for claiming the title of Biggest Opening Weekend
58875 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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Conan's bodyguards protecting his golf cart
58743 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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It's a cloud which looks like a dog and a cat riding on a tortoise
58675 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018
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when someone take you somewhere nice
58659 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018
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Friend of mine gave brooding chicken 3 goose eggs to sit on, she hatched all 3 and loves her giant babies .
58636 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018
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Office Mario Kart ends in tears for one of us.
58529 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018
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Walking an 11 year old dog vs a 6 month old dog
58465 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018
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Heroes on and off the screen
58363 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2018
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4 years ago my wife suffered a major stroke. This is her first painting since then and I couldn't be prouder.
58321 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018
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What a gentleman taking his bubble bath
58287 upvotes • comment • may 26, 2018
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Hope this prototype will make it to release
58280 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018
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Let us never forget.
58242 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018
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My dog has bad anxiety and hides in the bathroom but my cat always tries to comfort him
58210 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018
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Well fuck you too, Toad
58196 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018
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When you go to school and your teacher has a quest for you.
58128 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018
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I painted The Zucc
58065 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018
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My husky is going blind and likes to stair off the deck. She didn’t realize we put the grill back.
58040 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018
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Amazing animation art
57919 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018
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Life backwards is the story of your mother becoming increasingly protective of you until she becomes so obsessed she absorbs you into her vagina.
57857 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018
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ABC cancels Roseanne Barr's sitcom after her tweet about black Obama aide Valerie Jarrett
57820 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018
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My great grandma on her 100th birthday today
57744 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018
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Legoland Japan has set a new Guinness World Records title after building a life-size sakura tree using over 800,000 Lego bricks
57727 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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TIL thanks to a tip from Malcom in the Middle's music clearance officer, Bryan Cranston received quarterly composing checks for his improvised humming and whistling, which the actor used to fund cast parties.
57706 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018
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Elon Musk wants to rate journalists. He'd call his site 'Pravda'. "Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication," Musk tweeted.
57627 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018
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Willow brings us flowers from the neighbour's garden
57615 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018
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Making a Love Note.
57574 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018
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Mr. Bean (Pakistan version) is like a fat version of original.
57573 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018
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California Senate votes to restore net neutrality
57434 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018
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Galton Board demonstrating probability
57410 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018