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  1. It really is

    72711 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020

  2. This Is A C-130 That Was Specially Modified To Land In A Stadium And Rescue Hostages In Iran In 1980:

    72672 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2020

  3. New Mexico sues over US Postal Service changes.

    72671 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020

  4. Very important work

    72604 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020

  5. My friend adopted this cutie.

    72559 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020

  6. 'Just Comes Right Out and Says It': Trump Declares Postal Service Can't Handle Mail-In Voting Because He's Blocking Funding

    72535 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020

  7. Belarus now

    72448 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  8. Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Its new certificate program for in-demand jobs takes only six months to complete and will be a fraction of the cost of college, Google will treat it as equivalent to a four-year degree

    72435 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2020

  9. USPS Board Chairman Revealed as Director of Mitch McConnell, Trump-Linked Super PACs

    72388 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2020

  10. Georgia second grader tests positive for coronavirus after attending the first day of school

    72387 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2020

  11. Exit poll declares improbable 79.7% victory for ‘dictator’ Lukashenko — as Belarus prepares for mass protests

    72361 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020

  12. What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

    72358 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020

  13. Himalayan Griffon vulture showing off its fake eyes

    72306 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020

  14. What has your pet accidentally conditioned you to do?

    72304 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2020

  15. Almost 13,000 people refused entry to Canada from U.S. during pandemic

    72302 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020

  16. My Special Talent

    72299 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020

  17. Without a doubt, one of, if not the dumbest moments in all of SW

    72268 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020

  18. At 16 my guidance counselor told me I wasn’t good enough at math to go into the space field. Just received my undergrad diploma in applied mathematics and in 2 weeks I start working on my masters in space sciences and engineering. Follow your gut and do the thing!

    72208 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  19. It's now illegal for Zimbabwe schools to expel pregnant girls

    72196 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020

  20. These transitions

    72165 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  21. This magic trick

    72097 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020

  22. Cannon ball contest boys

    72040 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020

  23. Ex-Boston Police Union Pres. Charged With Raping 4 More Children

    71998 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020

  24. Wait seriously...

    71952 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020

  25. When your pilot falls asleep.

    71948 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020

  26. This is my Periodic Table of Elements with actual elements!

    71929 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020

  27. Ben Shapiro loses free speech lawsuit against UMN over venue change

    71926 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020

  28. TIL that the reason Sherlock Holmes adaptations portray him as cold and unemotional is because later stories where he has empathy and warmth are owned by the Conan Doyle Estate. They will sue if a depiction of Holmes uses character traits that they own the rights to.

    71887 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2020

  29. LPT: Telling someone that a movie/book has a great twist is, in itself, a major spoiler. Don’t do that.

    71816 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020

  30. Coronaleopard

    71756 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  31. In Mauritius right now. We may be a tiny country but we had enough of a corupt government.

    71732 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020

  32. Wholesome dad

    71710 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020

  33. TIL that anyone who moves to Villas Las Estrellas, a settlement in Antarctica, must first have their appendix preemptively removed because the nearest hospital is over 600 miles away.

    71703 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020

  34. Young children would rather explore than get rewards, a study of American 4- and 5 year-olds finds. And their exploration is not random: the study showed children approached exploration systematically, to make sure they didn’t miss anything.

    71686 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020

  35. Forced Into Sterilisation, Sexual Violence, Uyghur Women Shine Light on Campaign of Control by Beijing

    71633 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020

  36. A family of racoon photobombed a wedding photoshoot

    71631 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020

  37. Ryan Reynolds Opens Streaming Service That Only Streams 2003's Foolproof - IGN

    71631 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020

  38. Poor Stitch

    71629 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  39. Come here. No you come here

    71617 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2020

  40. This lizard tail I found on the path. (Some lizards drop their tails as a defense mechanism, in a behavior called "caudal autotomy". This tail did not have a lizard attached when I found it.)

    71613 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2020

  41. Tyresome President

    71593 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020

  42. Birthday frequency graphic featured in today's New York Post [OC]

    71552 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020

  43. Gimme level 0

    71551 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020

  44. Who is Nasty?!

    71449 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020

  45. Calling homeless people “animals”

    71349 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020

  46. TIL the FDA has finally added a daily percentage to added sugars in foods and drink. A single can of Coke contains 78% of your daily recommended sugar intake.

    71330 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020

  47. yeah dad why

    71311 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020

  48. This sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin is called ‟Politicians discussing global warming.”

    71277 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020

  49. Imagine being so scared you cant approach someone whithout your gun in hand.

    71267 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020

  50. TIL: Africa has a "stonehenge" older than Stonehenge. Built "to mark the summer solstice and the arrival of the monsoons," Nabta Playa, "the oldest stone circle in the world" is among "Earth’s oldest astronomical" observatories. Over 7000 years old, it was found mostly-buried in sand in the 1970s.

    71188 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020

  51. Octopus sought help from diver and its display of wit.

    71165 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020

  52. red all the way.

    71149 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020

  53. Ah, yes, the cliffhanger position

    71146 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020

  54. A solar eclipse happening mid-flight

    71128 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020

  55. Go fast, I must.

    71118 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  56. Being poor is expensive

    71111 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020

  57. TIFU by realizing the older woman I’ve been sleeping with for months is my coworkers mom.

    71039 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2020

  58. TIL Queen Elizabeth II specifically asked to be in a James Bond skit with Daniel Craig for the Olympics, breaking royal protocol. When asked if she would like to say something she said, "Of course I must say something. After all, he is coming to rescue me."

    71024 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  59. Hey Alexa

    70994 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2020

  60. Africa to be declared free of wild polio after decades of work

    70969 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020

  61. 'What we saw was terrifying': Former senior Trump official Miles Taylor endorses Joe Biden in damning video

    70948 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2020

  62. This good boy so happy when he gets in his wheelchair to go for a walkie

    70894 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020

  63. Belgian female police officer performing nazi salute while her squad is pulling a George Floyd on a Slovakian man of bout 13 min. They all laughed and made jokes until he stopped breathing. Then they called in the med team but he was already dead. He was a mentally ill prisoner.

    70879 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020

  64. This adorable old boy

    70865 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020

  65. Found a rolled up oversized portrait of my 4 year old self in a storage box

    70843 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020

  66. Opossum Vibes

    70741 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020

  67. And now you know

    70686 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020

  68. TIL that a lottery winner wore a scream mask to collect his one million so that his relatives won't take his money

    70659 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020

  69. Save the USPS

    70658 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020

  70. From The Daily Show

    70609 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020

  71. What are some free/low-cost resources college students should know about?

    70601 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020

  72. After 102 days COVID-free, New Zealand reports it's first cases of community transmission

    70531 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020

  73. It's been one year since I trolled Hugh Jackman! I didn't realise until today that the date I met Hugh was the same date I joined Reddit many years ago 😂 thank you Reddit for the monster you created.

    70529 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  74. Reporter to Trump: "Do you regret all of the lying you have done to the American people?"

    70523 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020

  75. Me: "How much core strength do you have?" Him:

    70488 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2020

  76. “Nobody could have ever predicted a pandemic of this proportion.”

    70454 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020

  77. What it's like to drive in a Seabreacher

    70436 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020

  78. Karen doesn't want to wear a face mask at Planet Fitness

    70387 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020

  79. Achievement Unlocked

    70374 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020

  80. New(ton) Meme

    70354 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020

  81. Shampoo be like: YEET

    70323 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020

  82. Stop talking about your children’s genitalia, you weird bastard

    70276 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020

  83. Walt Disney Company Posts First Quarterly Loss In Almost 20 Years

    70262 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020

  84. Fire Station in Italy looks like a villain hideout

    70226 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020

  85. Millennial's American Dream: making a living wage to pay rent and maybe for food

    70218 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020

  86. In Singapore's airport you have the option to slide to your boarding gate

    70199 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020

  87. Drop of water falling on a sharp point

    70129 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020

  88. In 40 years what will people be nostalgic for?

    70121 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020

  89. An Important Message for Students

    70118 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020

  90. He told his daughter: "Don't tell anyone that your father is a janitor, they will laugh at you" she posted this photo on social networks and wrote: "My dad is a janitor. He is my pride. I love you, dad."

    70082 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020

  91. 🔥 A moose on the path

    70071 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020

  92. The Spaniards be having siestas in the middle of the workday

    70010 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020

  93. My mom has been protesting nearly every day for months in her rural Colorado town. Proud of her!

    69980 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020

  94. Dad got hit in the nostril by a Straw

    69968 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020

  95. What movie could have been over in 10 minutes if the main character wasn't such a fool?

    69902 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020

  96. Starting a new game

    69884 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020

  97. *laughs in trickster*

    69835 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020

  98. Tony Hawk not spilling the milk at 52

    69692 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020

  99. Today my daughter is 5 yrs cancer free! I took this photo to commemorate washing away 5 yrs.

    69680 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020

  100. I am speed

    69666 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020