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  1. Hig will sit on my steps and howl until I open the door and acknowledge him. Also Hig is not my dog.

    80576 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  2. Netflix's Upcoming 'Black Mirror' Film Will be a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure With 5+ Hours of Footage

    80552 upvotes • comment • dec 24, 2018

  3. This Mobile billboard is driving through the D.C. streets exposing “Net Neutrality Traitors” who have failed to support the Congressional Review Act

    80529 upvotes • comment • dec 14, 2018

  4. God of War wins GAME OF THE YEAR at The Game Awards. Congratulations Santa Monica Studio for making an amazing game!

    80497 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2018

  5. Gymnast Raquel Pinto from Portugal performing a series of flips

    80483 upvotes • comment • dec 30, 2018

  6. Scientists raise alert as ocean plankton levels plummet. "Alarm bells start going off because it means that something fundamental may have changed in the food web." Plankton provide about 70% of the oxygen humans breathe.

    80442 upvotes • comment • dec 23, 2018

  7. Beer Pong in a Parallel Universe

    80388 upvotes • comment • dec 15, 2018

  8. TIL when Halle Berry won 'Worst Actress' for Catwoman (2004) at the Razzie Awards, she accepted the award in person, holding her Oscar for Monster's Ball (2001) in one hand and the Razzie in the other. She thanked Warner Bros. during her speech for putting her in "a piece of shit, god-awful movie."

    80319 upvotes • comment • dec 30, 2018

  9. When a glitch becomes a nightmare

    80252 upvotes • comment • dec 14, 2018

  10. 16,700 NASA employees, 96% of the NASA workforce, are out of work due to the partial federal government shutdown. About 200 employees at NASA's Johnson Space Center will continue working primarily to keep the three astronauts aboard the ISS alive.

    80224 upvotes • comment • dec 28, 2018

  11. A new world in a bottle

    80155 upvotes • comment • dec 10, 2018

  12. If Bethesda included Nuka-Colas in the collector's edition

    79920 upvotes • comment • dec 01, 2018

  13. How to mess with coworkers!

    79896 upvotes • comment • dec 16, 2018

  14. Instant Trap

    79878 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2018

  15. Just visited the last Blockbuster in the world. Bend, Oregon

    79784 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  16. I led a cigarette clean up at college yesterday!

    79770 upvotes • comment • dec 06, 2018

  17. Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5

    79728 upvotes • comment • dec 23, 2018

  18. Murder from 3rd Degree burn

    79611 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  19. Caught this scrub hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, Trying to holler at me.

    79549 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  20. BRUH, HE DONE THE LITTLE DUDE NASTY...

    79410 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2018

  21. A tiger checking the depth of the water before relaxing

    79250 upvotes • comment • dec 29, 2018

  22. Italian man loses his mind after someone suggest they put salad cream in his grandmothers bolognese sauce

    79208 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2018

  23. Enhance!

    78954 upvotes • comment • dec 06, 2018

  24. Thanks reddit! You somehow made my random indie game become the 10th most played game on Steam of all time (info in comments)

    78849 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2018

  25. Vahid Sayadi Nasiri died in an Iranian prison after a 60-day hunger strike. He had been given an 8-year sentence for a Facebook post criticizing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    78824 upvotes • comment • dec 16, 2018

  26. Some old fashioned slavery

    78793 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2018

  27. TIL in 1719 prisoners in Paris were offered freedom at the condition they would marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana.

    78749 upvotes • comment • dec 16, 2018

  28. Infant unit nurses when the earthquake hits the hospital

    78717 upvotes • comment • dec 31, 2018

  29. My daughter has been begging us for a kitten for months. We’ve told her in no uncertain terms we are NOT getting a kitten. This is what awaits her on Christmas morning..

    78540 upvotes • comment • dec 20, 2018

  30. My husband Ian insisted that our new puppy Nala get her own stocking. I thought it was sweet until I realized he had ulterior motives..

    78445 upvotes • comment • dec 13, 2018

  31. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Lawmakers Should Lose Their Salaries Too When They Shut Down the Government

    78299 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2018

  32. I miss them too

    78151 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  33. TIL the FBI followed Einstein, compiling a 1,400pg file, after branding him as a communist because he joined an anti-lynching civil rights group

    78077 upvotes • comment • dec 17, 2018

  34. [image] Navy SEAL. Doctor. Astronaut.

    77999 upvotes • comment • dec 30, 2018

  35. The UK government has said households that install solar panels in the future will be expected to give away unused clean power for free to energy firms earning multimillion-pound profits, provoking outrage from green campaigners.

    77988 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  36. 17-year-old Walmart employee quits over store intercom: 'Nobody should work here, ever'

    77739 upvotes • comment • dec 15, 2018

  37. These are all faces made by NIVIDIA’s neuro-network, none of them are real.

    77719 upvotes • comment • dec 15, 2018

  38. The Obamas on their wedding day.

    77618 upvotes • comment • dec 23, 2018

  39. Instead of a Mummy’s Curse, in a couple hundred years when archaeologists are sitting through data on old computers, someone’s accidentally going to unleash an ancient computer virus into their network

    77593 upvotes • comment • dec 16, 2018

  40. D:

    77549 upvotes • comment • dec 16, 2018

  41. My roommate signed us up to “foster” pit bulls, 2 days later the foster home turned into forever home. Say hi to Prince

    77449 upvotes • comment • dec 04, 2018

  42. Went to adopt a cat, I think we were chosen instead

    77307 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  43. Fire truck with a vacuum that attaches to its exhaust so it doesn’t fill the building with fumes

    77299 upvotes • comment • dec 18, 2018

  44. Belarus warns Putin is destroying countries to re-create Soviet bloc under Russian flag

    77213 upvotes • comment • dec 30, 2018

  45. Gingerbread Optimus Prime

    77211 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  46. Looking good for 23!!

    77187 upvotes • comment • dec 20, 2018

  47. My great-grandmother and me in the same spot 89 years apart!

    76939 upvotes • comment • dec 02, 2018

  48. TIL while waiting for his audition for 'The Office', John Krasinski was telling someone about how he was worried the producers were going to screw the show up because of how great the British version is. The person he was talking to was Greg Daniels, the shows executive producer.

    76893 upvotes • comment • dec 08, 2018

  49. Happy 2019 from Sydney!

    76743 upvotes • comment • dec 31, 2018

  50. TIL director Peter Weir wanted to have cameras installed in behind every theater showing ‘The Truman Show’ and have the projectionist cut the power at some point during the film, cut to the viewers so they'd be watching themeselves, and then cut back to the movie.

    76730 upvotes • comment • dec 09, 2018

  51. I got to snuggle with a capybara

    76586 upvotes • comment • dec 09, 2018

  52. Perfect shot breaks the camera

    76572 upvotes • comment • dec 06, 2018

  53. TIL Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories

    76535 upvotes • comment • dec 09, 2018

  54. The guy knelt down so that his disabled wife and himself won't block anyone's sight

    76508 upvotes • comment • dec 11, 2018

  55. Trust me, I’m rich.

    76495 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  56. Finally debt free!

    76401 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  57. TIL The company Samsung accounts for 15% of South Korea's entire economy, and that South Koreans often live in Samsung owned apartment buildings, can get treatment from Samsung-owned medical centers, go to Samsung universities, and even end up at a Samsung funeral parlor when they die.

    76351 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2018

  58. Happiness comes from the simple things

    76349 upvotes • comment • dec 02, 2018

  59. It’s about time somebody said it

    76331 upvotes • comment • dec 14, 2018

  60. TIL that Switzerland has a system called direct democracy where citizens can disregard the government and hold national votes to create their own laws or even overturn those of the government.

    76140 upvotes • comment • dec 01, 2018

  61. That's...a good point.

    76045 upvotes • comment • dec 23, 2018

  62. It’s my girl’s 15th birthday!

    75946 upvotes • comment • dec 06, 2018

  63. This is my stop

    75938 upvotes • comment • dec 28, 2018

  64. Journalist thinks he's interviewing a random diplomat

    75673 upvotes • comment • dec 25, 2018

  65. Trashy Expectations

    75553 upvotes • comment • dec 15, 2018

  66. Let my homies sell drugs in peace

    75524 upvotes • comment • dec 26, 2018

  67. An udderly ridiculous weapon in Just Cause 4

    75384 upvotes • comment • dec 10, 2018

  68. TIL After Michael Jackson's hair caught fire in 1984 he founded a burn center. “I wanted to do something because I was so moved by the other burn patients I met...” He suffered painful burns, but hospital staff remember him spending much of his time visiting and comforting other patients

    75287 upvotes • comment • dec 10, 2018

  69. If humans were ever to prove the theory that our universe is a simulation, it would simultaneously become the moment when artificial intelligence becomes self-aware, ironically making humanity the artificial intelligence all along.

    75253 upvotes • comment • dec 28, 2018

  70. Vance's Incredible 365-day transformation inspired by Bert Kreischer

    75194 upvotes • comment • dec 26, 2018

  71. This pilot was flying his retirement flight and wanted to look special- and he did!

    75053 upvotes • comment • dec 10, 2018

  72. In 10-15 years gamer dads will join the sports dads who "could've gone pro if it werent for......."

    75021 upvotes • comment • dec 10, 2018

  73. The strength of humanity

    74872 upvotes • comment • dec 11, 2018

  74. Marvel Studios' Avengers - Official Trailer

    74855 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2018

  75. This one dude in the crowd in a neon shirt.

    74847 upvotes • comment • dec 08, 2018

  76. Delaware judge rules that a medical marijuana user fired from factory job after failing a drug test can pursue lawsuit against former employer

    74845 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2018

  77. One year ago, this brave woman, Vida Movahed, removed her hijab in one of the busiest streets in Iran and started a movement against compulsory hijab that's still going strong today

    74689 upvotes • comment • dec 27, 2018

  78. I ain’t gonna lie... I smiled and blew air out of my nose really fast when I read this

    74586 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  79. My family’s Yankee Swap is so intense that we make all 30 people use the same wrapping paper so no one knows who brought what.

    74530 upvotes • comment • dec 25, 2018

  80. Ashton Kutcher y’all

    74507 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  81. It's been 1 year since my brother nearly died due to a drunk driver. If your going out tonight and drinking please get a DD, take a cab, lyft, or uber. Get home safely and be safe please.

    74488 upvotes • comment • dec 31, 2018

  82. Makes sense

    74324 upvotes • comment • dec 26, 2018

  83. They see each other once a year for Christmas

    74321 upvotes • comment • dec 23, 2018

  84. Serious arm strength

    74227 upvotes • comment • dec 24, 2018

  85. TIL Frank Zappa was a futurist who was enthusiastic for the possibility of holographic imagery. So much so that he recorded footage of himself in the early 70s with the intention to be used when technology got to that point. A Frank Zappa holographic tour using that footage starts next year.

    74203 upvotes • comment • dec 13, 2018

  86. After addiction problems, five years in prison, and six years of dedication, my fiance graduates with a Bachelor's from the University of Florida

    74044 upvotes • comment • dec 15, 2018

  87. TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.

    74013 upvotes • comment • dec 20, 2018

  88. Little sister was hit by a DUI driver. Broke both legs, collar bone, knee cap, cheek bone, and fractured pelvis. She is still smiling and staying positive.

    74012 upvotes • comment • dec 30, 2018

  89. What is a good weakness to mention on a job interview?

    73950 upvotes • comment • dec 28, 2018

  90. Blizzard time lapse

    73842 upvotes • comment • dec 08, 2018

  91. Birthday Doggo

    73748 upvotes • comment • dec 27, 2018

  92. In 2006, Wendy Williams dug up private medical information, went on air and revealed that rapper Method Man's wife was battling cancer, which was something her own family members didn't even know about yet. Wendy Williams continues to have a talk show to this day.

    73748 upvotes • comment • dec 30, 2018

  93. Son surprises his mom who didn't think her son would be home for the holidays

    73733 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2018

  94. Surprise bops

    73473 upvotes • comment • dec 18, 2018

  95. And on sabbath no less

    73401 upvotes • comment • dec 31, 2018

  96. Donald Trump was heard off camera saying "get me out of here" to an aide as he left the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, leaving the president of Argentina standing alone on stage

    73393 upvotes • comment • dec 02, 2018

  97. TIL Medal of Honor recipient Edward Carter could speak five languages, fought in his first war at 15, and joined the the Spanish Civil War to fight fascists at 20 before eventually fighting in WW2. Despite his heroism in combat, he and all other black awardees would not be recognized until 1997.

    73322 upvotes • comment • dec 14, 2018

  98. TIL Break-ups are more hurtful for men: In a study of around 5,705 participants from 96 countries, it was found that whilst women experience intense pain immediately after a break-up, they get over it pretty quickly. Whereas men, on the other hand, move on quickly but remain damaged for longer.

    73267 upvotes • comment • dec 06, 2018

  99. My best photo of 2018!

    73242 upvotes • comment • dec 31, 2018

  100. Hershey Bears fans set the world record for number of teddy bears to be donated to kids for Christmas

    72967 upvotes • comment • dec 03, 2018