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Reddit (Aug 2019)

  1. Hong Kong today

    91782 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019

  2. Apparently, it's impossible for women to be smart and beautiful at the same time

    91678 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019

  3. Actor Danny Trejo saves a trapped baby from an overturned car

    91546 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019

  4. Here’s a picture of my carpeted floor since you can apparently post anything here now

    91540 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019

  5. A wedding to remember

    91458 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019

  6. C’mon Disney!

    91392 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019

  7. TIL Scientist grew trees in a sealed biosphere and couldn't work out why they fell over before they matured. They eventually figured out whilst they provided the perfect growing environment it was lacking wind which provides the stress to ensure the trees grew strong enough to support themselves.

    91243 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019

  8. TIL that after visiting a prison in Norway that treated prisoners humanely, a warden from North Dakota went back and reformed her prison based on Norway's model. It later saw sharp decline in violence against inmates and threats against staff

    91183 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2019

  9. I was giving away a free dishwasher on Craigslist and caught one in the wild!

    91164 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019

  10. Hello, Reddit! My daughter posted a few of my paintings in here and I was so happy with all the comments I decided to create a profile! Hope my paintings brings you as much joy as it does to me.

    91164 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019

  11. Was this the begining of CoD being a joke?

    91082 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019

  12. Swedish 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg just arrived in Manhattan after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a zero-emission yacht.

    90944 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2019

  13. Murdered by kindness.

    90808 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019

  14. Having surgery wish me luck!

    90781 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019

  15. I Guess it was a windy day

    90758 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019

  16. Sad but true

    90423 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019

  17. Billionaire David Koch dies at age 79

    90412 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019

  18. Taking a dip in the Rhine

    90042 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019

  19. Hong Kong Police tortured a patient in hospital

    89933 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019

  20. Tamping down the ash before adding incense

    89685 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019

  21. MOVIE VILLAINS

    89355 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019

  22. Nicest Merge Ever.

    89278 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019

  23. He’s trying

    89148 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019

  24. Elderly couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide, left notes about high medical bills

    89089 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019

  25. Reddit wins again

    89050 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2019

  26. The way this talented groomer creates trust with this shibe in less than 60 seconds

    88982 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019

  27. Goal!!!

    88735 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019

  28. My cat has killed all my fantasies of having a cat

    88629 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2019

  29. Best cops ever

    88420 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019

  30. Only allowed four plants...here's one.

    88394 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2019

  31. Lifting all nine of The Ardblair Stones.

    88273 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2019

  32. My son met his Great Great Grandma today

    88250 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019

  33. Jeffrey Epstein Death: 2 Guards Slept Through Checks and Falsified Records

    87841 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2019

  34. 2meirl4meirl

    87675 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019

  35. This is a Minecraft build I've been working on for 9 years

    87570 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019

  36. Flat-Earther accidentally proves the earth is round in his own experiment

    87233 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019

  37. Unremovable ads on my $2,500 Samsung Smart TV

    87082 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019

  38. I recorded my travels as a professional truck driver since 2012.

    86794 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019

  39. Shadow of a Millipede walking.

    86603 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019

  40. If your school lends textbooks, teachers seem perfectly content in using ones published in 1999. If your school sells textbooks, then last year’s editions are suddenly outdated, worthless pieces of trash.

    86341 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019

  41. 🔥 A beautiful red wolf. There are fewer than 25 red wolves left in the wild.

    85984 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019

  42. I took a picture of the moment my two kids realised all the donuts at the party had been eaten while they were off playing on the swings

    85768 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2019

  43. Someone peeled off 20 years worth of subway ads to reveal this Road Trip poster, circa 2000.

    85486 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019

  44. Keanu being Keanu again

    85474 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019

  45. Those are so expensive

    85436 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019

  46. Meanwhile at the local Subway...

    85427 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019

  47. The air vent in my friends car can perpetually spin at CRAZY SPEED with just the slightest touch. Every time I get into his car, I can’t resist.

    85411 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019

  48. What really happened to the dinosaurs

    85207 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019

  49. 🔥 Underwater cameraman gently redirecting a great white shark 🔥

    85096 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2019

  50. Standing against tyranny

    85065 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019

  51. People who downloaded their Google data and went through it, what were the most unsettling things you found out they had stored about you?

    85059 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019

  52. Reddit recently accepted an $150 million investment from a Chinese company, Tencent. Now, r/Hong_Kong, a pro china subreddit with only 1.6k subscribers, shows up first when searching for r/HongKong. r/HongKong doesnt even show up when typing a search.

    84945 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2019

  53. A much needed murder

    84902 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019

  54. 🔥 a little too lit 🔥

    84768 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019

  55. 2 years ago, this intersection in my hometown of Charlottesville became known for hate. This morning, I drew the crosswalk into a symbol of unity.

    84727 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2019

  56. Boioioioioioioing

    84707 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2019

  57. I commemorated my trip to a ranch in Canada with a dancing montage instead of a photo album

    84696 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019

  58. People are so amazed by the fact that every snowflake is different, but nobody cares that every potato is unique

    84094 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019

  59. When a fella tries to "get out of my country" a dude, but that dude already out

    84086 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019

  60. And that, kids, is how I met your mother

    84066 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2019

  61. I think most of us can relate to this.

    84035 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019

  62. There's always that one guy

    83954 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019

  63. APCs rolling down a highway in Hong Kong. It's much worse than we thought.

    83627 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019

  64. Songwriter murders stepmom

    83341 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019

  65. Twitter ran paid ads from China's state news media criticising the Hong Kong protests

    83305 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019

  66. THEY TOOK DOWN MY PROTEST POST OF 10k UPVOTES, THIS MEANS WAR

    83248 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019

  67. Me in 3 years

    83226 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019

  68. My mom makes cool shit like this all the time.

    83197 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019

  69. Focus on the Heroes

    83166 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2019

  70. Mother, Me, Digital, 2019

    83137 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2019

  71. TIL Of Billy Ray Harris, a beggar who was accidentally given a $4,000 engagement ring by a passing woman when she dropped it into his cup. He never sold it. Two days later the woman came back for her ring and he gave it to her. In thanks, she set up a fund that raised over $185,000 for him

    82965 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019

  72. In Norway you get a small amount of money for recycling bottles/cans. They're often collected by poor people, homeless etc. A lot of our trash cans has these holders around them so people don't have to search through the trash to collect them

    82956 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019

  73. Hong Kong protesters plan to withdraw as much money as possible from their banks or change their currency into US dollars, both to protect their own assets and to show the mainland that the semiautonomous island is more than just a cash cow.

    82875 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2019

  74. Joker Officially Rated “R”

    82847 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019

  75. Prince Andrew groped young woman at flat belonging to billionaire paedophile, court documents allege | The Independent

    82760 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019

  76. Redditors who have tried to hide on your cruise when it ended so that you could stay on the ship for the next round, how did that go?

    82706 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019

  77. Leaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to 'Censor the Internet' Denounced as Dangerous, Unconstitutional Edict: "In practice, this executive order would mean that whichever political party is in power could dictate what speech is allowed on the Internet."

    82686 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019

  78. TIL A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted to meet Luke Skywalker (in character). His mental state devolved to the point where he did not realise Luke was fictional. Mark Hamill agreed to dress up in character and meet the boy. He spent hours answering questions.

    82340 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019

  79. I took an 81 megapixel shot of the sun today. There are a couple interesting areas if you zoom into the surface.

    82079 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019

  80. Nothing will change

    81931 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019

  81. TIL In 2004 actor Paul Walker secretly purchased a $10,000 engagement ring for a U.S. military veteran. Paul was at a jewelry store & overheard a couple talking about a ring they loved but that was too expensive. Paul quietly put the ring on his tab and walked out of the door.

    81925 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019

  82. Trying to teach the daughter a fun dance

    81780 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019

  83. Close Call

    81619 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019

  84. Hong Kong protesters form 28-mile human chain demanding democracy

    81482 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019

  85. This is how hot it is in Saudi Arabia

    81455 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019

  86. When the physics engine works just right.

    81397 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019

  87. My wife forgot to leave for me the carseat to take our son to the babysitter's house. This is the picture I sent when she asked how I was going to get him there. I then turned off my phone for the next 4 hours.

    81379 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019

  88. Price is Right model accidentally gives away a car.

    81223 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019

  89. You know you’re getting old when your parents start disappointing you, instead of you disappointing them.

    81144 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019

  90. Trying to make friends on a game without a chat function

    80609 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019

  91. should i wear this to prom? if enough people say yes than ill do it and post pictures.

    80447 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019

  92. Just imagine if trucks and guns have the same safety regulations

    80390 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019

  93. Toyota UK gets roasted by NFS!

    80112 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019

  94. Letter from a trapped coal miner says goodbye to his wife, 1902

    80036 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019

  95. He's looking around for someone to save him. RIP my dude.

    80023 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019

  96. Ain't nobody gone mention this ?

    79787 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019

  97. TIL that Teller (the silent half of Penn and Teller) began doing magic in complete silence when performing at fraternity houses as he found it reduced heckling and beer thrown at him during his act.

    79757 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019

  98. 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg says meeting with Trump would be a "waste": "Why should I waste time talking to him when he, of course, is not going to listen to me?"

    79590 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019

  99. Stop juuling/vaping, my brothers

    79453 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019

  100. TIL the iconic Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was created by only 9 people.... and 8 of them had never once worked on a video game before!

    79327 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019