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Reddit (Aug 2019)
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Hong Kong today
91782 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Apparently, it's impossible for women to be smart and beautiful at the same time
91678 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Actor Danny Trejo saves a trapped baby from an overturned car
91546 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Here’s a picture of my carpeted floor since you can apparently post anything here now
91540 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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A wedding to remember
91458 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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C’mon Disney!
91392 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019
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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
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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
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I was giving away a free dishwasher on Craigslist and caught one in the wild!
91164 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019
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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
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Was this the begining of CoD being a joke?
91082 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019
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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
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Murdered by kindness.
90808 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Having surgery wish me luck!
90781 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019
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I Guess it was a windy day
90758 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Sad but true
90423 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Billionaire David Koch dies at age 79
90412 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019
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Taking a dip in the Rhine
90042 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Hong Kong Police tortured a patient in hospital
89933 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Tamping down the ash before adding incense
89685 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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MOVIE VILLAINS
89355 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Nicest Merge Ever.
89278 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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He’s trying
89148 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Elderly couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide, left notes about high medical bills
89089 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Reddit wins again
89050 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2019
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The way this talented groomer creates trust with this shibe in less than 60 seconds
88982 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Goal!!!
88735 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019
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My cat has killed all my fantasies of having a cat
88629 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Best cops ever
88420 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Only allowed four plants...here's one.
88394 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2019
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Lifting all nine of The Ardblair Stones.
88273 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2019
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My son met his Great Great Grandma today
88250 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein Death: 2 Guards Slept Through Checks and Falsified Records
87841 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2019
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2meirl4meirl
87675 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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This is a Minecraft build I've been working on for 9 years
87570 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Flat-Earther accidentally proves the earth is round in his own experiment
87233 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Unremovable ads on my $2,500 Samsung Smart TV
87082 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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I recorded my travels as a professional truck driver since 2012.
86794 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Shadow of a Millipede walking.
86603 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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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
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🔥 A beautiful red wolf. There are fewer than 25 red wolves left in the wild.
85984 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019
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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
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Someone peeled off 20 years worth of subway ads to reveal this Road Trip poster, circa 2000.
85486 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Keanu being Keanu again
85474 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019
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Those are so expensive
85436 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Meanwhile at the local Subway...
85427 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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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
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What really happened to the dinosaurs
85207 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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🔥 Underwater cameraman gently redirecting a great white shark 🔥
85096 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Standing against tyranny
85065 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2019
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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
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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
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A much needed murder
84902 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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🔥 a little too lit 🔥
84768 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019
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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
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Boioioioioioioing
84707 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2019
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I commemorated my trip to a ranch in Canada with a dancing montage instead of a photo album
84696 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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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
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When a fella tries to "get out of my country" a dude, but that dude already out
84086 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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And that, kids, is how I met your mother
84066 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2019
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I think most of us can relate to this.
84035 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019
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There's always that one guy
83954 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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APCs rolling down a highway in Hong Kong. It's much worse than we thought.
83627 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019
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Songwriter murders stepmom
83341 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Twitter ran paid ads from China's state news media criticising the Hong Kong protests
83305 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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THEY TOOK DOWN MY PROTEST POST OF 10k UPVOTES, THIS MEANS WAR
83248 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Me in 3 years
83226 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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My mom makes cool shit like this all the time.
83197 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Focus on the Heroes
83166 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Mother, Me, Digital, 2019
83137 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Joker Officially Rated “R”
82847 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Prince Andrew groped young woman at flat belonging to billionaire paedophile, court documents allege | The Independent
82760 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing will change
81931 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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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
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Trying to teach the daughter a fun dance
81780 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Close Call
81619 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Hong Kong protesters form 28-mile human chain demanding democracy
81482 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019
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This is how hot it is in Saudi Arabia
81455 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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When the physics engine works just right.
81397 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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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
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Price is Right model accidentally gives away a car.
81223 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019
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You know you’re getting old when your parents start disappointing you, instead of you disappointing them.
81144 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Trying to make friends on a game without a chat function
80609 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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should i wear this to prom? if enough people say yes than ill do it and post pictures.
80447 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019
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Just imagine if trucks and guns have the same safety regulations
80390 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Toyota UK gets roasted by NFS!
80112 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2019
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Letter from a trapped coal miner says goodbye to his wife, 1902
80036 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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He's looking around for someone to save him. RIP my dude.
80023 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Ain't nobody gone mention this ?
79787 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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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
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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
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Stop juuling/vaping, my brothers
79453 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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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