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  1. TIL at age 11 Hugh Jackman decided against dance lessons because his older brother told him "dancing is for sissy's." Years later his brother apologized and encouraged him to follow his passion. Hugh signed up for lessons the following day and went on to win a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

    49069 upvotes • comment • jul 06, 2019

  2. Frank was scared of jumping from high places so...

    49049 upvotes • comment • jul 28, 2019

  3. We adopted our daughter from foster care 8 months ago, she hasn't said "I love you" back to me yet...she gave me this when I got home from work today.

    49047 upvotes • comment • jul 24, 2019

  4. Teen Driver Couldn't See Through Cloud of Pot Smoke, Rammed Police Car

    49010 upvotes • comment • jul 11, 2019

  5. Mr. Rogers brought a special needs child on his show and showed the world how to treat them with kindness.

    48901 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2019

  6. Syrian refugee cooks food on the street to give to the homeless in Germany.

    48893 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2019

  7. Avengers got it all wrong

    48878 upvotes • comment • jul 15, 2019

  8. I feel like it’s my duty to notify all the strangers my cat befriended at my apartment complex

    48865 upvotes • comment • jul 01, 2019

  9. The Okanagan, British Columbia

    48861 upvotes • comment • jul 22, 2019

  10. A tasty piece of Salmon from this Salmon ATM in Singapore.

    48856 upvotes • comment • jul 19, 2019

  11. Corgi falling asleep on the train

    48846 upvotes • comment • jul 08, 2019

  12. TIL Gay men incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps during World War II were forced back into prison even after the Allied forces won that conflict.

    48837 upvotes • comment • jul 07, 2019

  13. A giant mechanized minotaur walking around Toulouse.

    48792 upvotes • comment • jul 29, 2019

  14. 3 miscarriages, 3 years later. We finally get to meet the angel we've been longing for.

    48771 upvotes • comment • jul 16, 2019

  15. Tesla parks on someone’s lawn, steals electricity.

    48771 upvotes • comment • jul 26, 2019

  16. Puerto Ricans are US citizens. They can’t be deported from the United States.

    48716 upvotes • comment • jul 14, 2019

  17. #MoscowMitchMcTreason trends after McConnell defends blocking election security bills

    48710 upvotes • comment • jul 30, 2019

  18. [OC] Purpose in life

    48697 upvotes • comment • jul 02, 2019

  19. Shocked meow meow

    48660 upvotes • comment • jul 19, 2019

  20. A chrome Maserati

    48641 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2019

  21. I couldn’t find my horse for hours. Went into a cave and saw this

    48625 upvotes • comment • jul 28, 2019

  22. This sign from Thailand

    48623 upvotes • comment • jul 02, 2019

  23. Rammstein's guitarists kiss onstage during Russia performance to protest anti-LGBTQ laws

    48621 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  24. Germany introducing mandatory measles vaccination for kids

    48602 upvotes • comment • jul 17, 2019

  25. Netflix could lose almost a quarter of its subscribers if it started running ads, study shows

    48592 upvotes • comment • jul 05, 2019

  26. IF 👏 YOU 👏 AREN’T 👏 PREPARED 👏 TO 👏 BE 👏 A 👏 DECENT 👏 PARENT 👏 THEN 👏 DON’T 👏 FUCKING 👏 HAVE 👏 KIDS

    48563 upvotes • comment • jul 28, 2019

  27. Justin Bieber: I appreciate Trump helping A$AP Rocky, but 'can you also let those kids out of cages?'

    48558 upvotes • comment • jul 20, 2019

  28. More than two thirds of UK millennials believe their generation will be 'worse off' than their parents’ - Almost two thirds (62 per cent) of the 1,030 16-24-year-olds polled by YouGov felt the Government cared more about older generations than their own.

    48538 upvotes • comment • jul 08, 2019

  29. Anon is a boomer

    48523 upvotes • comment • jul 30, 2019

  30. TIL about Ralph Lazo, the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to an internment camp. When Lazo learned that his Japanese American friends and neighbors were being forcibly removed, he was so outraged that he joined friends on a train that took hundreds to Manzanar.

    48481 upvotes • comment • jul 18, 2019

  31. Teens brags about destroying ruins

    48447 upvotes • comment • jul 13, 2019

  32. What's a problem of yours that would be solved if someone just gave you $5000?

    48425 upvotes • comment • jul 26, 2019

  33. The pyramids as seen from the center of Cairo

    48359 upvotes • comment • jul 16, 2019

  34. New dishwasher has a third rack for large cooking utensils

    48339 upvotes • comment • jul 24, 2019

  35. Forgot slept too much

    48332 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2019

  36. Mueller testimony: Trump ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn to lie, special counsel confirms

    48326 upvotes • comment • jul 24, 2019

  37. Polish streamer almost runs over pedestrians - twice!

    48308 upvotes • comment • jul 13, 2019

  38. Necessary information before an answer

    48220 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  39. The first sign of the apocalypse

    48214 upvotes • comment • jul 17, 2019

  40. me irl

    48199 upvotes • comment • jul 19, 2019

  41. Such a powerful quote

    48186 upvotes • comment • jul 26, 2019

  42. A praying mantis trapped in amber, approximately 12 million years old

    48168 upvotes • comment • jul 02, 2019

  43. Lady calls the cops to stop a water fight. This was their (the water fighters) response

    48163 upvotes • comment • jul 22, 2019

  44. And that’s a fact.

    48150 upvotes • comment • jul 22, 2019

  45. I recently bought a small farm house that needs a lot of work. This deck was the first big construction project, built with the help of my brothers, and I'm really proud of it. It's amazing what one week of hard work can accomplish!

    48149 upvotes • comment • jul 26, 2019

  46. In the distant future when all of the World's languages are condensed into a single universal common language, 'Fuck' is totally going to make the cut.

    48131 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  47. Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant

    48098 upvotes • comment • jul 03, 2019

  48. My new official campaign shirt! Let's see if the rest of the group can handle it 😸

    48096 upvotes • comment • jul 29, 2019

  49. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Responds To Republicans Calling Her ‘Just A Waitress’ After Ivanka Tweet: ‘What Is So Appalling To GOP About Having An Honest Job?’

    48070 upvotes • comment • jul 01, 2019

  50. TIL that the US has refused to continue funding the nuclear claims tribunal set up to compensate islanders that suffered radiation-related diseases from testing. So far it's paid less than $4 million of a $2.2 billion damage judgement. More than half of the affected islanders have died since.

    48019 upvotes • comment • jul 18, 2019

  51. Fellow Kids Style "Cool" Youth Pastor Who Creeped Out Multiple Teenage Girls Starter Pack

    48006 upvotes • comment • jul 30, 2019

  52. My copy of Fahrenheit 451 was one of the only books that survived the house fire today

    47995 upvotes • comment • jul 21, 2019

  53. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns

    47972 upvotes • comment • jul 12, 2019

  54. Immigrant child celebrating Independence Day from his cage (July 4, 2019).

    47966 upvotes • comment • jul 04, 2019

  55. No one probably cares but I can't contain my excitement!! I'm going to college at 16 years old!

    47962 upvotes • comment • jul 19, 2019

  56. I'm with the metric system on this one

    47944 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  57. Palpatine has reached his full potential

    47907 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2019

  58. Big cats reaction to ice

    47866 upvotes • comment • jul 09, 2019

  59. This extremely hard test

    47836 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  60. Human body ‘close to thermal limits’ due to extreme heatwaves caused by climate change, scientist says | Recordbreaking heat has swept through Europe this week with temperatures topping 40C - in places such as South Asia & the Persian Gulf, people are already enduring temperatures reaching up to 54C

    47797 upvotes • comment • jul 28, 2019

  61. Trump said some Democrat congresswomen from countries “whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came”.

    47790 upvotes • comment • jul 14, 2019

  62. Just follow the law

    47774 upvotes • comment • jul 21, 2019

  63. Me and my 19 year old that I've had since the day he was born.

    47765 upvotes • comment • jul 05, 2019

  64. Done in a easy way

    47755 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2019

  65. In an alternate universe...

    47734 upvotes • comment • jul 05, 2019

  66. Maggie is now a certified therapy dog!

    47726 upvotes • comment • jul 12, 2019

  67. I need an AR15 in case I need to hijack a plane

    47726 upvotes • comment • jul 30, 2019

  68. Not everyone on tinder is a dick apparently

    47723 upvotes • comment • jul 08, 2019

  69. What folklore creature do you think really exists?

    47685 upvotes • comment • jul 30, 2019

  70. TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film," calling the dialog "lamentable." An autograph seeker told him he'd seen the movie over 100 times; he gave him an autograph on the condition he never see the movie again.

    47678 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2019

  71. Why Britain. Why

    47650 upvotes • comment • jul 19, 2019

  72. You should stop focusing on me and look to your righ...

    47625 upvotes • comment • jul 09, 2019

  73. Fawn trusts a baby

    47593 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2019

  74. Lazy lion lets gravity do the work for her.

    47593 upvotes • comment • jul 10, 2019

  75. Damn

    47581 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  76. Dog reenacting poses from pictures.

    47576 upvotes • comment • jul 11, 2019

  77. Wonder if he bought it

    47569 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2019

  78. The new Prime Minister of the UK.

    47559 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2019

  79. My tortoise going on his daily prowl

    47551 upvotes • comment • jul 02, 2019

  80. Teenager Accused of Rape Deserves Leniency Because He’s From a ‘Good Family,’ Judge Says

    47547 upvotes • comment • jul 03, 2019

  81. Just filthy and nasty

    47546 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2019

  82. Dog eating pieces of sliced carrot like a champ.

    47530 upvotes • comment • jul 08, 2019

  83. WCGW if I let my son shoot some fireworks

    47504 upvotes • comment • jul 09, 2019

  84. Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft

    47503 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2019

  85. Sand sculpture I was lucky to see on my morning walk

    47499 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2019

  86. Fighting an ant infestation in my kitchen the last couple days. Didn't think to check my cereal box. Realized the small brown things are ants 6-8 bites in.

    47472 upvotes • comment • jul 18, 2019

  87. "You saw nothing." - Sheep

    47456 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2019

  88. Kids being kids

    47391 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2019

  89. The FBI Somehow Lost Its Files About White Supremacist Forum Stormfront: The feds can’t find some of its own investigative records about the hateful neo-Nazi haven.

    47388 upvotes • comment • jul 03, 2019

  90. Wholesome 100

    47369 upvotes • comment • jul 20, 2019

  91. Who wanna join?

    47353 upvotes • comment • jul 12, 2019

  92. This is too sad 😔

    47349 upvotes • comment • jul 12, 2019

  93. The Universal Truth

    47347 upvotes • comment • jul 04, 2019

  94. My parents invited guests over and said that there was a kid my age. He was 6. I'm 17.

    47330 upvotes • comment • jul 13, 2019

  95. What are some NOT fun facts?

    47319 upvotes • comment • jul 20, 2019

  96. Satisfaction 100!

    47319 upvotes • comment • jul 16, 2019

  97. 'Straight Pride Parade' organizers say they received suspicious envelopes in the mail. They were full of glitter

    47314 upvotes • comment • jul 02, 2019

  98. Wasps head got crushed in between the garage door panels when I closed it

    47310 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2019

  99. The beach near my house after the tourist left

    47307 upvotes • comment • jul 29, 2019

  100. Asshole school system charging kids for lunch and then blaming parents

    47264 upvotes • comment • jul 20, 2019