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  1. 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

  2. Behold!

    63555 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018

  3. Fishy tricks

    63519 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  4. Hardcore Pokemon hunter grandpa

    63359 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018

  5. Sometimes life is better than a movie

    63355 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  6. There are two types of girl

    63293 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018

  7. This is the most likely scenario

    63289 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  8. Dude just whipped out this desk on the subway and started his meeting

    63176 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018

  9. How I like to imagine Reddit bans go down.

    63175 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  10. Golden boy discovers a new toy

    63123 upvotes • comment • may 18, 2018

  11. 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

  12. A friend went for a walk the other night and saw this woman just standing on a roof

    62955 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018

  13. 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

  14. Global warming: April was 400th straight warmer-than-average month

    62818 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  15. Ambien-maker to Roseanne: Racism is not a side effect of our drug

    62733 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018

  16. 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

  17. It's over Anakin!

    62639 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018

  18. 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

  19. TIL of Melanism, the opposite of Albinism. Creates some really cool looking animals.

    62527 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  20. Canola meadow

    62410 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018

  21. Dad started putting in new toilet. Walked away for a few minutes and came back to this.

    62150 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018

  22. Backwards bike flip

    62136 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2018

  23. How dare you?

    62064 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  24. Getting the perfect hair cut

    62003 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018

  25. My wife gave me this Bob Ross book. This photo was inside.. ..

    61990 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018

  26. Remember the “overly attached girlfriend” meme? This is her now.

    61934 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  27. Didn’t notice until after I stole the pen. Good work Jerry.

    61880 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  28. Officer Jenkins

    61753 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018

  29. 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

  30. Wholesome simpsons

    61719 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018

  31. 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

  32. Down 212lbs!! Starting weight 500lbs- Next goal is 225

    61623 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018

  33. Hey Reddit thank you so much for all the love for my car! Its much appreciated!

    61604 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  34. Fuzzy Black Hole

    61514 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  35. camping buddies ❤

    61401 upvotes • comment • may 04, 2018

  36. 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

  37. Peer pressure as an adult is seeing your neighbor mow their lawn.

    61303 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  38. My boy climbing an old rotten tree stump looks like a giant climbing mountains.

    61240 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018

  39. 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

  40. The game within the game

    61118 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018

  41. Driving under hot air baloons

    61037 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  42. Crack in Hawaiian streets spewing lava

    60921 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018

  43. Manual turbo

    60709 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018

  44. Doesn't have a license and already a better driver than most.

    60709 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  45. I come into the living room to see my wife in her wedding dress...watching the royal wedding.

    60649 upvotes • comment • may 21, 2018

  46. Map stabbers have to be stopped!

    60573 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2018

  47. Street sweeper sweeping a stray dog

    60571 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  48. Harold showing off his mushroom

    60489 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  49. I recorded and overlaid my last 46 attempts at the final level of N.

    60465 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018

  50. 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

  51. Australia and Netherlands formally accuse Russia of responsibility for downing MH17 passenger jet in 2014

    60460 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  52. North Korea will open air space, invite media to cover dismantlement of nuclear test site

    60415 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  53. Loves the water, but does not know how to swim... so he's stuck in the kiddie pools

    60318 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018

  54. Seems like a legit form of measurement

    60250 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  55. She's not the subtlest of photobombers

    60033 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  56. His name is Meep, he's a Dachshund and he's the runt of the litter

    59862 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018

  57. He's so proud of his catch until he realizes...it's all a lie

    59822 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018

  58. Well played Amber

    59663 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  59. NBC Picks up Brooklyn 99 for a sixth season

    59638 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  60. A true purpose of the recently erected statue in Warsaw, Poland

    59632 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018

  61. 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

  62. Professor Oak

    59602 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  63. TIL You are 10 times more likely to get bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.

    59343 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018

  64. This tabasco tray on our pizza

    59218 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018

  65. I had the pleasure of painting this handsome older gentleman’s portrait. This is Bruno!

    59117 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  66. Same place, remastered for 2018

    59094 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018

  67. My son at one month old and his 97-year-old Korean great grandmother

    59000 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018

  68. Just made this format, have I struck gold?

    58999 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  69. My blind dog when he gets exited

    58906 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018

  70. Cherry Blossom Trees in Germany

    58896 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018

  71. 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

  72. Lucasfilm congratulates Marvel Studios for claiming the title of Biggest Opening Weekend

    58875 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018

  73. Conan's bodyguards protecting his golf cart

    58743 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018

  74. It's a cloud which looks like a dog and a cat riding on a tortoise

    58675 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  75. when someone take you somewhere nice

    58659 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018

  76. 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

  77. Office Mario Kart ends in tears for one of us.

    58529 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018

  78. Walking an 11 year old dog vs a 6 month old dog

    58465 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  79. Heroes on and off the screen

    58363 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2018

  80. 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

  81. What a gentleman taking his bubble bath

    58287 upvotes • comment • may 26, 2018

  82. Hope this prototype will make it to release

    58280 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018

  83. Let us never forget.

    58242 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018

  84. My dog has bad anxiety and hides in the bathroom but my cat always tries to comfort him

    58210 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018

  85. Well fuck you too, Toad

    58196 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018

  86. When you go to school and your teacher has a quest for you.

    58128 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018

  87. I painted The Zucc

    58065 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018

  88. 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

  89. Amazing animation art

    57919 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018

  90. 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

  91. ABC cancels Roseanne Barr's sitcom after her tweet about black Obama aide Valerie Jarrett

    57820 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018

  92. My great grandma on her 100th birthday today

    57744 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018

  93. 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

  94. 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

  95. 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

  96. Willow brings us flowers from the neighbour's garden

    57615 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018

  97. Making a Love Note.

    57574 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018

  98. Mr. Bean (Pakistan version) is like a fat version of original.

    57573 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  99. California Senate votes to restore net neutrality

    57434 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018

  100. Galton Board demonstrating probability

    57410 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018