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Reddit (Aug 2020)
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TIL In 1967, Paul McCartney forgot his passport when travelling to France to shoot a music video. He told the agents, ‘You know who I am so why do you need to see a photograph of me in a passport?’ And was let through.
90956 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2020
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[OC] Two thousand years of global temperatures in twenty seconds
90856 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Student suspended after showing fellow students without masks
90768 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020
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White student says, “Go pick my cotton, it’s that way.” to Black student.
90754 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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One of mankind's great achievements is managing to go 75 years without nuking each other
90743 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Murica don't want arabic numerals lol
90621 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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This dad made this game from cardboard for his daughter
90466 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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No singing for you!
90451 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020
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TIL that British actress Emilia Clarke has survived two brain aneurysms and founded a charity called SameYou which helps provide treatment to people recovering from a brain injury or stroke
90430 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued people who downloaded their torrents. The matter reached the FBI and the pirate site accepted to collaborate with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
90399 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
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In 1921 a mob of white supremacists with the help of the United States National Guard attacked a prosperous black community in Tusla, OK, and murdered at least 200 and injured more than 1,000 black people. They even used airplanes in the attack. This day is also known as Black Wall Street Massacre
90378 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Finally tied the knot with my girlfriend of 7 years, it hasn't been an easy adventure, but i am glad of the result.
90353 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Reposted because rule 3
90327 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Civil unrest erupts in Belarus after rigged election and 26 years of dictatorship
90263 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2020
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[OC] Most Popular Web Browsers between 1995 and 2019
90246 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Lizard trapped inside a man tries to hold itself together on live TV
90223 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Meet Lilly after £6500 of lifesaving cancer surgery
90184 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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BLM protester who lost his eye from tear gas canister in June now attending the March on Washington
90174 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Nice!, you can paint in real life, but can you paint in VR?
90081 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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TIL Denzel Washington once quietly helped pay for Howard University students to attend a prestigious theater program at Oxford when they couldn't afford to go. One of those students was Chadwick Bosemam
89868 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020
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I know
89760 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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I get a lot of DMs daily from teen tiktok “stars” asking for free stuff from my business, and here’s an example
89567 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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WHAT DRAKE WOULD SOUND LIKE IF HE RAPPED IN THE 90S
89490 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Man Saves Dog From Fire
89469 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020
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a a a a a a a a a a a a
89386 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Poor charlie
89270 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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How is this ok?
89196 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
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he got shamed
89057 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Only took one Zoom meeting to plan!
88957 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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TIL a Princeton University undergraduate designed an atomic bomb for his term paper. When American nuclear scientists said it would work, the FBI confiscated his paper and classified it. Few months later he was contacted by French and Pakistani officials who offered to buy his design. He got an "A".
88896 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Never too late
88837 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Being with people who don't listen is lonelier than being alone.
88795 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2020
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'A Conspiracy to Steal the Election, Folks': Alarms Sound After Postal Worker Reports Removal of Sorting Machines. The removal of key equipment from Post Offices should be viewed as nothing less than "sabotage," said one observer.
88723 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020
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It's cool and all until you lost your glasses
88658 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Steve Bannon indicted in scheme to defraud donors to campaign pledging to build border wall
88615 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020
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300-400 years ago, pirates were a terrifying force to be reckoned with. Now they’re family friendly figures of fun. What will be their modern day equivalent a few centuries from now?
88560 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Chadwick Boseman visiting Mady at St Judes Children's Hospital in 2018
88466 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020
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It's the first day of pear season
88453 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Confused flat earhers
88405 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Trump Explodes After Nevada Approves Automatically Sending All Voters Mail-In Ballots
88368 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
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My Mercy from Overwatch Cosplay wings are done!! All aluminum and steel build :)
88363 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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I found 70 pictures googling "Wolves" and created this!
88355 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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8.4.2020 Beirut - storage before the blast
88306 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Mosquitoes sure are brave for creatures with only 1 hp
88295 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2020
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TIL that, in the American West of the 1800s, up to one in four Texan cowboys was African American. The number of Mexican cowboys was even greater.
88269 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
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First Day of School in Georgia
88240 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Beirut port aftermath
88084 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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Sneak peek at cods physical edition.
88079 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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bamboozling since ‘03
87959 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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twinkies and poptarts in swedish ”disgusting food museum”
87952 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Rip
87897 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020
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Star Wars is for everyone
87747 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Some people masturbate more than they brush their teeth.
87712 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Beirut before & after
87663 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020
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Good for this guy!
87660 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades
87595 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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The amount of time she takes to realise what's going in..
87432 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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This Baboon is helping his dog Friend to get rid of bugs.
87401 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Tony Hawk brand soap
87146 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020
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If you got offered $1,000,000 but it meant that every traffic light you approach will be red, would you take it? Why or why not?
87140 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2020
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True love
86982 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Grandpa riding and paddling on a log downstream and making it look easy
86938 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Americans Go Home: Canadians Track U.S. Boaters Sneaking Across The Border
86920 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Have you ever seen a bodybuilder in a suit?
86707 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Who got into the catnip? Was it you?
86551 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November
86545 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Just connect the dots
86540 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Whoever touches the trash can first loses.
86525 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
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This guys incredible gun impressions.
86491 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Beirut explosion captured on the street
86445 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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An ancient relic
86443 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
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The Zangbeto is a ritualistic Gambian dance wherein the dancer is cloaked in palm fronds from head to toe
86412 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly catching reaction test
86297 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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They never even gave this man a chance to comply before gunning him down!
86172 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
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Love that friend <3
86163 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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“I only had one margarita”
86128 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020
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I grew up without a dad. Last week I made the front page of our local paper for being one.
86101 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020
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A collage of sunset pictures taken from my window during July
86071 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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We’re getting closer to high-fidelity VR.
86064 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Doctor who tweeted that she would give Jews the wrong medication loses ohio medical certificate
85894 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Horse having hoof care for the first time
85860 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The Batman - DC FanDome Teaser
85808 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
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TIL most Americans support eliminating the penny but attempts to do so have been stopped by Jarden Zinc Products, the sole provider of zinc penny blanks. Canada eliminated their penny in 2012.
85718 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Trump International Hotel Vancouver is permanently closed
85402 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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This is Maya. Her owner built her a luxury log cabin.
85368 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
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What happens when the dickhead neighbour's gardener starts 10 blowers at 7am.
85355 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Postal workers union endorses Biden, warns 'survival' of USPS at stake
85254 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Dances in chonk
85188 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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This pleases me.
85090 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
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Amazon could really use a "filter out Chinese sellers" option
84944 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Just refinished our Den. Wife asked me to clean up the mess, I told her the cleaning crew would do it.
84907 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Admiral Jeremiah Denton Jr. used his eyes to blink the word "TORTURE" using Morse Code during his captivity in Vietnam. He was being filmed for propaganda purposes and this video was broadcast around the world. Naval Intelligence was able to decipher his "strange" blinking.
84899 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Haunted house pro
84877 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020
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COVID-19 in America: We're All in This Together (lots of freakouts)
84836 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2020
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TIL Physical attractiveness has a significant influence on judges sentencing. The more unattractive the criminal, the higher the sentence. Results of three studies show a minimum increase of 119.25% and a maximum increase of 304.88%.
84806 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Stealing flowers from someone's garden is pretty trashy.
84795 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020
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Syria has accused President Donald Trump of stealing the country's oil, after U.S. officials confirmed that a U.S. company has been allowed to operate there in fields under the control of a Pentagon-backed militia.
84792 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2020
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Polish MPs flew the rainbow colours for their Homophobic president Andrzej Duda's swearing-in.
84707 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Anonymous Source Tells Times Reporter Don Jr. Is Worried His Father Will Lose And Whole Family Will Be Prosecuted
84664 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020
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This woman's skills at the halo theme tune
84613 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2020