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  1. Dr Drew Uses Copyright Claim to Takedown Supercut of Him Downplaying COVID-19

    54615 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  2. Coronavirus Has Now Killed More People in US than 2018-2019 Flu Season

    54609 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2020

  3. Hyperbole

    54582 upvotes • comment • apr 30, 2020

  4. Germany and Britain said yesterday that efforts to revive the global economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic must ensure a ‘green recovery’ that helps the world tackle climate change. “Unlike in the fight against the coronavirus, we already know the vaccines for the climate crisis,”

    54503 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2020

  5. TIL when cocaine and ethanol (drinking alcohol) are consumed simultaneously, a new compound, cocaethylene, is formed in the blood, which is even more pleasurable, longer lasting, and more dangerous than cocaine or alcohol alone.

    54493 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2020

  6. Table that perfectly fits its chairs.

    54468 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2020

  7. “...just to see what would happen”

    54453 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2020

  8. Ticketmaster Will No Longer Refund Postponed Shows

    54418 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2020

  9. It was an honor

    54371 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2020

  10. But her emails!

    54309 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2020

  11. What's the best Wi-Fi name you've seen?

    54308 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2020

  12. I'm just cleaning my hand

    54306 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  13. The perfect son.

    54289 upvotes • comment • apr 02, 2020

  14. Thank you, Bernie. We love you.

    54249 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2020

  15. Coronavirus: Ban wildlife markets to prevent future pandemics, says UN biodiversity chief - ‘The message we are getting is if we don’t take care of nature, it will take care of us,’ Elizabeth Maruma Mrema says

    54239 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  16. Steam is inevitable

    54202 upvotes • comment • apr 03, 2020

  17. In 1918, there was an anti-mask league in San Francisco, which objected to wearing masks to prevent the spread of influenza. They held meetings of thousands of maskless people. San Francisco was ultimately was one of the cities that suffered most from the Spanish Influenza pandemic

    54157 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2020

  18. You know the feeling

    54106 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2020

  19. Reddit. Choose a movie. Keep one actor. The rest are Muppets. What is the movie and which actor do you keep?

    54020 upvotes • comment • apr 04, 2020

  20. My pup a year ago

    54016 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020

  21. TIL Killer bees were created in an attempt to breed tamer and more manageable bees. This was done by crossing a European honey bee and an African bee, but instead the offspring became more aggressive and highly defensive bees that have escaped into the wild.

    53995 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2020

  22. Sneak level 100

    53991 upvotes • comment • apr 30, 2020

  23. COVID-19 lockdown: New Zealand Health Minister demoted after driving 20km to beach, breaking lockdown rules

    53980 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  24. My girlfriend was unemployed last Christmas and couldn’t afford a gift for me so she painted this.

    53943 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2020

  25. 4 people from 4 different wars

    53920 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2020

  26. Mind blowing

    53880 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  27. Identical twins of reddit who own a pet after living seperately; what was your pet's reaction when it saw two owners?

    53867 upvotes • comment • apr 14, 2020

  28. Quarantine Day ??: Home Casino

    53847 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  29. You need to go back to work Dave.

    53841 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2020

  30. Real Friends Would Understand Why They Haven't Reached Out or Not Hold It Against You

    53802 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2020

  31. Traffic on my morning commute

    53796 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2020

  32. COVID-19 is a lie!... gotta wear a face mask just in case tho

    53737 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2020

  33. Trump denounces mail votes as corrupt – before admitting he applied for one

    53734 upvotes • comment • apr 08, 2020

  34. More Than 1,000 French Sailors Test Positive For Coronavirus—On A Single Ship

    53725 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2020

  35. Decorative wine bottle holder, banana for scale

    53708 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2020

  36. I’m a taxidermist and I decided to make a rat centipede, enjoy

    53707 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020

  37. Imagine getting worked up because the Newswoman has a little belly

    53689 upvotes • comment • apr 24, 2020

  38. Poor kid...

    53654 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2020

  39. Pakistan’s Honey Production Increases by 70% Thanks to Billion Tree Project

    53642 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  40. Sometimes cheap and expensive items are the same thing with the only difference being the brand name. What are some examples of this?

    53630 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020

  41. Look at the happy boy

    53628 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2020

  42. Liberal Jill Karofsky wins 10-year seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court

    53621 upvotes • comment • apr 14, 2020

  43. Trump vs. Vietnam

    53549 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020

  44. [image] try your best

    53542 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2020

  45. My dumbest injury, I was flipping a steak in a curved pan (like flat bottom wok) and all the butter splashed out.

    53523 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2020

  46. Day ??? of quarantine

    53521 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2020

  47. Abandoned presidents heads in a rural Virginia field.

    53486 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2020

  48. Because trees have been around for millions of years, insects like beetles and moths literally look like sticks and leaves in order to blend themselves from predators. How long do you think it will take for insects to look like man-made objects, and what object will it be? Any thoughts?

    53479 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020

  49. A clothing company made a magnetic button down shirt for a man with cerebral palsy so he could get dressed more easily

    53468 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2020

  50. British Prime Minister, who is suffering from coronavirus, has been admitted to intensive care as his condition has worsened

    53459 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  51. If you woke up tomorrow and were able to move things with your mind, how would you use this ability?

    53449 upvotes • comment • apr 07, 2020

  52. Zoom sued for allegedly sharing users' personal data with Facebook

    53414 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2020

  53. I just want them all to be happy...

    53407 upvotes • comment • apr 19, 2020

  54. TIL Michael Jackson went grocery shopping shopping in a closed down supermarket with all the other people being actors just to experience what's it like to be an ordinary person

    53405 upvotes • comment • apr 11, 2020

  55. Great value for travelers

    53387 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  56. I used to play games in the basement of his house, now he plays games in my basement.

    53371 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020

  57. TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.

    53363 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2020

  58. ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81

    53344 upvotes • comment • apr 03, 2020

  59. Perfect and Sweet Response

    53310 upvotes • comment • apr 02, 2020

  60. GET OUT THE WAY PROTESTERS BIG DADDY IS COMING

    53308 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020

  61. Ruth’s Chris Made $468 Million in Revenue but Gobbled Up $20 Million in Small Business Relief. The steakhouse chain has more than 150 locations and $86 million in cash reserves—and it furloughed workers.

    53278 upvotes • comment • apr 20, 2020

  62. TIL in 1986 all game designers working for Konami were forbidden to attach their actual name to any project. Instead, they were required to create a fake name to be listed in the game’s credits. This was to prevent them from asking for raises, and keep rival companies from stealing their talent.

    53255 upvotes • comment • apr 02, 2020

  63. US was warned of threat from anti-vaxxers in event of pandemic | US news

    53188 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020

  64. Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus

    53178 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2020

  65. Sirens

    53166 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2020

  66. Poll: 59 percent of voters more concerned about rolling back social distancing too soon than economic fallout

    53163 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2020

  67. Low cost Nemesis cosplay

    53114 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2020

  68. Fewer than 3,000 people died on 9/11 and we went to war, spent trillions, and surrendered freedom and privacy forever. Over 40,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 already, and you can't handle staying indoors for a while?

    53091 upvotes • comment • apr 20, 2020

  69. Fellas is it cultural appropriation to eat Chinese food?

    53085 upvotes • comment • apr 11, 2020

  70. Cake days also make you feel older

    53078 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020

  71. Amazon delivery drivers got a bit too much on their mind these days...

    53076 upvotes • comment • apr 14, 2020

  72. Wonderful 2000 year old Saphire ring presumably belonged to Roman Emperor Caligula, thought depicting his fourth wife Caesonia .

    53036 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020

  73. Twins married twins and gave birth to twins!

    53014 upvotes • comment • apr 28, 2020

  74. NSA deals with threats to national security through intelligence, FBI just solves federal crimes

    52994 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2020

  75. LPT: Mute your mic during video calls when your not speaking.

    52990 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  76. Pteropods, also known as sea butterflies, are sea snails that swim rather than crawl

    52980 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020

  77. Samsung redesigned its TV packaging so customers can upcycle the cardboard box into cat house.

    52973 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  78. *epic music starts playing*

    52946 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2020

  79. Life

    52933 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  80. Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president. But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China.

    52930 upvotes • comment • apr 24, 2020

  81. CBSNews reporter Paula Reid presses Trump on a month long gap in his administrations response to Coronavirus.

    52895 upvotes • comment • apr 13, 2020

  82. Little pupper explodes with excitement to see human is home

    52868 upvotes • comment • apr 20, 2020

  83. Lebanon becomes first Arab country to legalise cannabis farming for medical use in bid to beat economic crisis: Cannabis has long been illegally farmed in the fertile Bekaa Valley and government now hopes to turn it into a legal billion-dollar trade.

    52860 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2020

  84. Canadian government commits $2 billion to Canadian made medical needs. So far more than 3,200 companies that would have closed have shifted to manufacturing medical equipment, PPE, sanitizers, masks, and more. Treat our patients, protect our workers, keep economy moving. Oh Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️

    52827 upvotes • comment • apr 01, 2020

  85. "Our Christian race"

    52817 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2020

  86. The Needle Galaxy is nearly 50 million light-years away. I used 11 hours of exposure time to capture it from my backyard.

    52800 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2020

  87. Jessie Graff, Holly Holm and Michelle Waterson

    52788 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020

  88. Rising Above Negativity

    52768 upvotes • comment • apr 22, 2020

  89. If you do this then fuck you !

    52757 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2020

  90. Basically my life right now

    52748 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  91. Only a drunkard would accept these terms: Tanzania President cancels 'killer Chinese loan' worth $10 b

    52729 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2020

  92. A powerful hammer

    52702 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020

  93. Funny how that works

    52700 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2020

  94. TIL Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic medicine, had the idea that surgeons could prevent infecting their patients by washing and disinfecting their hands with carbolic acid before surgery. This idea earned him ridicule—until people started noticing that it did indeed help.

    52694 upvotes • comment • apr 06, 2020

  95. Sleeping on the job

    52641 upvotes • comment • apr 20, 2020

  96. A friend of one of my employees is looking for a cheap car...I tried so hard to keep my cool.

    52631 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2020

  97. One more reason to dislike car dealerships

    52610 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2020

  98. me🐱irl

    52595 upvotes • comment • apr 07, 2020

  99. Riding that Obama friendship to the Oval Office

    52580 upvotes • comment • apr 16, 2020

  100. After 29 hours I finally finished this Master Chief illustration. This is the product of all the spare quarantine time.

    52541 upvotes • comment • apr 20, 2020