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  1. Mike Myers Wants to Do an 'Austin Powers' Movie From Dr. Evil's Perspective

    44831 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018

  2. TIL that while developing Star Trek Spock was originally going to be from Mars, however due to a concern that a Martian landing might take place before the end of the series his home planet was changed.

    44824 upvotes • comment • may 18, 2018

  3. TIL To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.

    44730 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018

  4. Sleep assistant

    44721 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018

  5. Oman storm brings three years' rainfall in single day

    44703 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018

  6. Otters rolling in the dirt under a tree by the river

    44675 upvotes • comment • may 04, 2018

  7. Taking off

    44659 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  8. Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump

    44650 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018

  9. My curly fry is literally the “&” symbol

    44622 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018

  10. My grandmother has a flour drawer in her kitchen

    44606 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2018

  11. This mini van I found in Philly is called Vanny Devito

    44602 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  12. “Sorry boss I’m not gonna make it in today, got a bad case of the shouldercats”

    44571 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018

  13. My cultures are NOT your goddamn prom dress.

    44527 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018

  14. TIL in the 1800s, a cult leader gave 600 acres of land to God but the State of Pennsylvania took possession and sold it because the Almighty didn’t pay His taxes.

    44507 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  15. When your mother is gone from this realm

    44438 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  16. This is kind of a big deal. Two Senators, one Republican and one Democrat, who were impersonated during net neutrality repeal, call on FCC to investigate millions of fake comments

    44425 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  17. My night after work

    44415 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  18. Lady bug made a trail in the morning dew on my car.

    44400 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  19. I’m about to square up with an Uber

    44246 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018

  20. My teacher killed in ant in the copier now it's on all of the papers.

    44237 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  21. But shit, it was 99¢

    44215 upvotes • comment • may 19, 2018

  22. Sheet of doodles

    44146 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  23. TIL there is one character owned by both Marvel and DC, named Access, whose sole purpose is to try to keep both companies' universes separate.

    44118 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  24. Wisteria

    44067 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018

  25. Play Dark Souls they said...

    44052 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2018

  26. Some things never change

    44024 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  27. Probably not the best tattoo idea ever...

    44024 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018

  28. I'm gonna rob some mothers, WCGW?

    44004 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  29. These bubbles! Zoom in, guys!

    43984 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  30. Time Is Not Kind.

    43919 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018

  31. I found a child’s time capsule while digging in my yard.

    43869 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2018

  32. Something we can all agree on

    43849 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2018

  33. I saw this little guy having a really comfy nap at a Sri Lankan tea estate. He seemed to be having a nice nap, completely oblivious to the light rain.

    43802 upvotes • comment • may 23, 2018

  34. Two men, separated by a generation, playing basketball together.

    43776 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  35. The water also looks like an elephant.

    43652 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018

  36. TIL that Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist.

    43640 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  37. One of my favorite lighthouses in Maine - I had to fly my drone 7000ft out into the ocean in order to capture this photo, almost didn't have enough battery to get it back to land.

    43594 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018

  38. My appendix burst and my brothers are wankers

    43594 upvotes • comment • may 21, 2018

  39. Facebook has helped introduce thousands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists to one another, via its 'suggested friends' feature...allowing them to develop fresh terror networks and even recruit new members to their cause.

    43564 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2018

  40. Afghan government to recognize Taliban as a legitimate political party. So here's a photo of me wasting my time.

    43555 upvotes • comment • may 04, 2018

  41. TIL North Korea plays basketball with different rules. Slam Dunks are 3 pts, Three-point “nothing but net” shots are worth 4 pts, and teams lose points when they miss free throws.

    43548 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  42. Why yes, I do have a refined taste in mobile games

    43523 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  43. My girlfriend’s cat paces using the same steps each day

    43501 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018

  44. Kid still lookin fly tho

    43491 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2018

  45. This restaurant has Mother’s Day cards in the bathroom in case you forgot to get your mom one.

    43451 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2018

  46. GTA V logic

    43417 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018

  47. Nice ice breaker

    43397 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  48. Cute po-po puppy on his first day

    43380 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  49. TIL that trees near rivers with salmon grow three times faster than trees without them - because bears leave their carcasses to decompose on the banks

    43365 upvotes • comment • may 01, 2018

  50. Should have joined the fight after hearing that comment

    43334 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018

  51. TIL Mythbusters hosts Adam and Jamie built a combat robot for the show Robot Wars. It was so effective that it often sent pieces of its opponent's bodywork over the shield walls of the arena into the crowd, and after two fights the show's insurance company deemed the bot "too hazardous" to compete.

    43309 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  52. TIL Jimmy Carter was considered such a long shot candidate that when he told his mother, Lillian, his plans to run for President, she asked him “President of what?”

    43243 upvotes • comment • may 15, 2018

  53. Lithuania's financial situation in the wake of their independence left them nearly unable to field a Basketball team in the 1992 Olympics. They ended up being able to participate due in part to a sponsorship from the Grateful Dead. Here is the 1992 team in their tie-dye uniforms.

    43220 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018

  54. Environment creation process for Pool Scum stop motion animation

    43186 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  55. How to get healthcare without a job

    43168 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  56. TIL that when the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883, the public doubted the stability of the bridge. Six days later, a pedestrian fell, causing a woman to scream, which led to a stampede that killed 12. Public concern was only dispelled a year later when P.T. Barnum marched 21 elephants across it.

    43163 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018

  57. Sea Cow was determined to catch up to me

    43161 upvotes • comment • may 26, 2018

  58. The new National Geographic cover

    43103 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  59. In ‘Zootopia’ (2016) there’s a brief shot of a conspiracy wall and one of pictures is of a Sad Keanu wolf.

    43056 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018

  60. That's was close

    43049 upvotes • comment • may 09, 2018

  61. 3D zoetrope when it reaches the proper speed

    43023 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  62. Name this plant

    43001 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018

  63. Harvey Weinstein Turns Himself in to Authorities

    42986 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  64. Totalbiscuit has passed

    42980 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018

  65. South and North Korean table tennis teams requested to not play each other in the quarter finals and instead play the semifinals together as one team.

    42948 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  66. The Bethesda Twitch chat right now

    42942 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018

  67. Rescued Bobcat Baby Doing a Sneak

    42902 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018

  68. ‘Roseanne’ Cancelled: ABC Scraps Season 11 After Barr’s Racist Tweet

    42893 upvotes • comment • may 29, 2018

  69. Banana hate

    42887 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018

  70. A 19 year old Scarlett Johansson

    42811 upvotes • comment • may 07, 2018

  71. TIL that in 2007 Russia planted their national flag underwater in hopes of securing the arctic's potential natural resources. “This isn’t the 15th century,” one foreign minister said. “You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say, ‘We’re claiming this territory.’

    42754 upvotes • comment • may 16, 2018

  72. Dennis is cross eyed, but I know Reddit will love him anyway.

    42743 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2018

  73. Horse tries out zipper

    42734 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  74. TIL The practice of pouring of a liquid in memory of those who have "passed on" was common in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. "Pouring one out for the homies" is a custom over 3,000 years old!

    42723 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2018

  75. The biggest cause of cancer in mice is research.

    42686 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018

  76. The titanic movie is like someone making a romance movie about 9/11 in a hundred years

    42668 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  77. this cool Halo painting

    42602 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2018

  78. Next stop Harvard.

    42568 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  79. LPT: when your ISP raises your bill, call in and say “cancel service” to the automated operator. You’ll be sent to their retention team with no waiting on hold. They will usually take $10-20 off your monthly bill for a year. I do this once a year.

    42540 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018

  80. How is this gif higher quality than real life?

    42494 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2018

  81. Philippine Supreme Court removes chief justice. Duterte now controls all the branches of the government.

    42469 upvotes • comment • may 11, 2018

  82. This teacher’s been a teacher before

    42434 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  83. Do you think strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is a good basis for a system of government? Why or why not?

    42414 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2018

  84. A Japanese BBQ

    42380 upvotes • comment • may 26, 2018

  85. Benedict Cumberbatch Says He’ll Only Take New Projects If His Female Co-Stars Receive Equal Pay

    42343 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  86. Always remember to shine your coffee machine!

    42335 upvotes • comment • may 06, 2018

  87. By law our cars have to be road worthy, but the roads don’t have to be car worthy

    42262 upvotes • comment • may 08, 2018

  88. Place your bets!

    42250 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  89. Sign of the Times [OC]

    42195 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  90. friendship killer...

    42178 upvotes • comment • may 21, 2018

  91. As a 10yr old male I was a 30yr old lesbian.

    42120 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  92. PsBattle: Slave Elsa and Hans Solo

    42103 upvotes • comment • may 03, 2018

  93. Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dramatically shifted away from its stated mission to “protect human and environmental health.” Instead, the agency is clearly favoring the interests of the polluting industries that it is mandated to regulate, according to a study

    42084 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  94. TIL Most older CD based video games can be put in a CD player and you can listen to the soundtrack of the game

    42068 upvotes • comment • may 02, 2018

  95. He had nothing to eat, but when given two lollipops, he offered one of them back to photographer Emil Leonardi.

    42036 upvotes • comment • may 12, 2018

  96. Beep boop

    41995 upvotes • comment • may 22, 2018

  97. Whoa, that is one fast corgi!

    41991 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2018

  98. This guy holding an umbrella over a soldier standing by the seat and plaque dedicated to the 92,000+ unaccounted for American soldiers since WWI

    41980 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2018

  99. Hulahoop like a boss!

    41943 upvotes • comment • may 18, 2018

  100. Oregon Coast. [3780x5102] [OC]

    41942 upvotes • comment • may 24, 2018