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Reddit (Aug 2019)
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Europe has the capacity to produce more than 100 times the amount of energy it currently produces through onshore windfarms, new analysis has revealed. The new study reveals that Europe has the potential to supply enough energy for the whole world until 2050.
52940 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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He'll kill us all!!!
52852 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired, finds a new study by neuroscientists using a special form of MRI, which found that people with a very efficient fibre network had more general knowledge than those with less efficient structural networking.
52849 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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That must be one good apple
52727 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2019
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Hey PCMR, I'm opening a LAN center soon, and I thought you guys would appreciate this photo.
52720 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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my thoughts exactly
52700 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2019
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Wait For It...
52677 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Extrovert, adopt me!!
52638 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2019
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Date Announcement | Netflix
52553 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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In response to someone saying depression, poverty, and weight are a choice.
52513 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Megathread: AG Barr, Gaetz, AOC, others call for investigation into the death of Jeffery Epstein
52479 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Toddlers are difficult even when you're a cat.
52450 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Want to be this clean?
52448 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Incredible choreography makes this South Korean cheer team look like a human LCD
52445 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019
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Wholesome Cab Driver
52432 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019
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This new wall art in my office.
52375 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Can you fix it?
52362 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips, suggests a new study. Seagulls are sensitive to human gaze and change behaviour when being watched, suggesting that they have theory of mind, the capacity to infer the mental states of others, or associate being watched with being chased away.
52325 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Wholesome grandpa
52313 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Future President Gerald Ford with teammate Willis Ward at the University of Michigan in 1934. Ford threatened to quit the team when Ward was benched for a game against Georgia Tech, who at the time refused to play against black players.
52295 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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who wouldn't
52281 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019
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VidEo GaMes CaUsE VioLeNCe
52272 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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cursed_teletubbie
52267 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Ok this is really funny
52239 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Tesla engine secret
52220 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Put a rubber band around the inside of the pockets of your shorts and never have to worry about your phone or keys on a run
52207 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Pic of the ongoing bombing and genocide in Yemen that literally no one is talking about
52206 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2019
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When you perfectly mimick your human
52183 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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For the few that have actually read any terms and conditions, what sneaky things have you found?
52176 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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Cops in Hong Kong go after protestors
52159 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Here is A look at the New 1.15 Bees!!!!!!!
52153 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Fake news can lead people to form false memories after they see fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, suggests a new study, which indicates how voters may be influenced in upcoming political contests like the 2020 US presidential race (n=3,140).
52130 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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These four identical, evenly spaced birth marks on my eyeball
52105 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019
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YEAAAAAAH!
52098 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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Business owner slams corporate media for misleading him about Bernie Sanders
52096 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019
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TIFU by delivering for Door Dash
52072 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2019
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Trump's plan to cage kids indefinitely while denying them vaccines is ethnic cleansing in plain sight
52037 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Adoption is happening
52028 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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This video of a man shit scared while paragliding has gone hugely viral in India. I decided to add subtitles to it for all to enjoy!
51999 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Hong Kong Police stand and do nothing as mob with metal pipes and China flags runs to attack protesters
51963 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Barbara Walters' incredibly creepy response to Corey Feldman admitting rampant pedophilia in Hollywood
51924 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Started making some Fortnite thumbnails for a bit of side cash, ran into this.
51914 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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I’ve never felt more sure of a hypothetical in my life...
51879 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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This is what happened to my car after a guy in an SUV chose to speed through a red and hit me. I walked away unharmed.
51858 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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A calendar at work
51828 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019
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I got bored waiting to get help at Lowe’s
51708 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019
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TIL Walmart used to take out life insurance policies on their employees and keep the payouts when they died, a practice colloquially known as “Dead Peasant Insurance”
51671 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2019
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To my wife and my children...
51664 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Former Marine said he’d ‘slaughter’ antifa. The FBI, using Oregon’s new red flag law, took his guns away
51655 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2019
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TIFU by c*mming so hard I fainted
51655 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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TIL Rasputin's autopsy showed no signs of poisoning, no water in his lungs, and in-tact genitalia. He simply died from three bullet wounds and the popular story of his incredible survivability is likely completely inaccurate.
51624 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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Mitch McConnell gets a warm welcome from the crowd
51599 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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TIL Kid Rock didn't grow up in a trailer park, but on a six-acre estate with a 5,628-square-foot house and its own apple orchard.
51598 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Hoping this fits
51556 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Wood
51552 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Completed my gaming setup :)
51526 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2019
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TIFU by falling asleep in the back of my boyfriend's car
51513 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2019
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What would people take more seriously if it had a different name?
51508 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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3D printed picture
51483 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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UPDATE: Turns out ol Gimmy Yeetboi was trying to steal $550 from me, now their party has no live entertainment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
51453 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Mitch McConnell Challenger Amy Mcgrath Releases Blistering Ad in Kentucky: He 'Left Our Coal Miners Behind'
51439 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Don’t scroll by without saying hi to Coco
51409 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2019
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Police officers who were involved in complaints related to excessive force were more likely to work with officers with a history of such behaviors, suggesting that officers' peers may serve as social conduits through which misconduct is learned and transmitted (n = 8,642 Chicago police officers).
51363 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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TIL Of Robert Campbell, a World War One soldier who was a German prisoner, he learned that his mother was dying, and wrote to the Kaiser, asking to be released. His request was granted, with the condition that he had to return. Campbell spent a week with his mother, then returned.
51321 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2019
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Bullying a 7 year old
51318 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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English toff made eat his own words
51270 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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The "Seth McFarlane Show" Starter Pack.
51239 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Golden boy.
51233 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2019
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Hong Kong protesters use laser pointers to deter police, scramble facial recognition
51211 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Golden trout
51207 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Get the handcuffs!
51170 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Lawyers of Reddit, what was the best 'gotcha moment' you ever experienced?
51162 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2019
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Black Magic Fuckery
51130 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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Me irl
51108 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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My boss dropping a $260 bottle of liquor
51102 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2019
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Not a nice weekend for Jeffrey...
51086 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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TIFU I hooked up with a guy in my airport hotel room this morning before checking out. Turns out he is on the same flight as me and guess what, he’s traveling with his wife and kids.
51077 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2019
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This sounds like common sense ...
51031 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Way to ruin everybody's day
50996 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2019
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How American people probably shower
50987 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2019
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Found this lil guy in the shower. He just hung out on my finger while I dried off, got dressed and then found him a tree with some ants to snack on. Good luck gecko bud, it was fun hanging out!
50983 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2019
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This was the last moment that truly felt like “Game of Thrones” for me
50978 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2019
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If only they had put cones there as a warning
50966 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2019
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Grinning Trump gives thumbs-up with baby whose parents were shot dead in El Paso atrocity
50910 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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TIL that the opening track to Slipknot’s album “Iowa” titled “515” wasn’t just random screaming. Sid Wilson was having an emotional breakdown in the studio because he wasn’t able to make it home to tell his grandfather goodbye before he died.
50907 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2019
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Videos taken on different days. Cats are such creatures of habit.
50906 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Names Powerful Men in Alleged Sex Ring
50886 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2019
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HMC while I show my parents what 4 years of college education amounted to
50882 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2019
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Work attire
50876 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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This Keurig that stops you from using reusable pods
50786 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2019
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Hk police threatening to shoot at a completely unarmed civilian with a loaded pistol.
50763 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2019
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Crescent moon and Jupiter with four of its moons.
50740 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2019
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President Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image of Iran
50728 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2019
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Protestor hold umbrella over journalist
50700 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2019
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Orca using a fish to go birding
50686 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2019
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Still the worst company in America
50685 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2019
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This is Two Face doing her “Treat Prayer” move. 10/10 works every time.
50683 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2019
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What should people stop buying?
50678 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2019
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A 9,000 year old skeleton was recently found inside a cave in Cheddar, England, and was nicknamed “Cheddar Man”. His DNA was tested and it was concluded that a living relative was teaching history about a 1/2 mile away, tracing back nearly 300 generations.
50676 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2019
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My friend thought he scored big this weekend
50668 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2019