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Reddit (Aug 2020)
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It really is
72711 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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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
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New Mexico sues over US Postal Service changes.
72671 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Very important work
72604 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020
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My friend adopted this cutie.
72559 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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'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
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Belarus now
72448 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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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
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USPS Board Chairman Revealed as Director of Mitch McConnell, Trump-Linked Super PACs
72388 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2020
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Georgia second grader tests positive for coronavirus after attending the first day of school
72387 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2020
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Exit poll declares improbable 79.7% victory for ‘dictator’ Lukashenko — as Belarus prepares for mass protests
72361 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?
72358 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Himalayan Griffon vulture showing off its fake eyes
72306 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020
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What has your pet accidentally conditioned you to do?
72304 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2020
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Almost 13,000 people refused entry to Canada from U.S. during pandemic
72302 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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My Special Talent
72299 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Without a doubt, one of, if not the dumbest moments in all of SW
72268 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020
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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
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It's now illegal for Zimbabwe schools to expel pregnant girls
72196 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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These transitions
72165 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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This magic trick
72097 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Cannon ball contest boys
72040 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Ex-Boston Police Union Pres. Charged With Raping 4 More Children
71998 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Wait seriously...
71952 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2020
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When your pilot falls asleep.
71948 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020
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This is my Periodic Table of Elements with actual elements!
71929 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Ben Shapiro loses free speech lawsuit against UMN over venue change
71926 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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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
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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
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Coronaleopard
71756 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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In Mauritius right now. We may be a tiny country but we had enough of a corupt government.
71732 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Wholesome dad
71710 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020
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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
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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
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Forced Into Sterilisation, Sexual Violence, Uyghur Women Shine Light on Campaign of Control by Beijing
71633 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
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A family of racoon photobombed a wedding photoshoot
71631 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Ryan Reynolds Opens Streaming Service That Only Streams 2003's Foolproof - IGN
71631 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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Poor Stitch
71629 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Come here. No you come here
71617 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2020
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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
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Tyresome President
71593 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Birthday frequency graphic featured in today's New York Post [OC]
71552 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Gimme level 0
71551 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Who is Nasty?!
71449 upvotes • comment • aug 15, 2020
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Calling homeless people “animals”
71349 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020
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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
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yeah dad why
71311 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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This sculpture by Issac Cordal in Berlin is called ‟Politicians discussing global warming.”
71277 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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Imagine being so scared you cant approach someone whithout your gun in hand.
71267 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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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
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Octopus sought help from diver and its display of wit.
71165 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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red all the way.
71149 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
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Ah, yes, the cliffhanger position
71146 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020
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A solar eclipse happening mid-flight
71128 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Go fast, I must.
71118 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Being poor is expensive
71111 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020
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TIFU by realizing the older woman I’ve been sleeping with for months is my coworkers mom.
71039 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2020
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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
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Hey Alexa
70994 upvotes • comment • aug 26, 2020
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Africa to be declared free of wild polio after decades of work
70969 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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'What we saw was terrifying': Former senior Trump official Miles Taylor endorses Joe Biden in damning video
70948 upvotes • comment • aug 17, 2020
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This good boy so happy when he gets in his wheelchair to go for a walkie
70894 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020
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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
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This adorable old boy
70865 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Found a rolled up oversized portrait of my 4 year old self in a storage box
70843 upvotes • comment • aug 29, 2020
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Opossum Vibes
70741 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020
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And now you know
70686 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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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
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Save the USPS
70658 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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From The Daily Show
70609 upvotes • comment • aug 20, 2020
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What are some free/low-cost resources college students should know about?
70601 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
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After 102 days COVID-free, New Zealand reports it's first cases of community transmission
70531 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
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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
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Reporter to Trump: "Do you regret all of the lying you have done to the American people?"
70523 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020
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Me: "How much core strength do you have?" Him:
70488 upvotes • comment • aug 10, 2020
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“Nobody could have ever predicted a pandemic of this proportion.”
70454 upvotes • comment • aug 09, 2020
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What it's like to drive in a Seabreacher
70436 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
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Karen doesn't want to wear a face mask at Planet Fitness
70387 upvotes • comment • aug 08, 2020
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Achievement Unlocked
70374 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020
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New(ton) Meme
70354 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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Shampoo be like: YEET
70323 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
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Stop talking about your children’s genitalia, you weird bastard
70276 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Walt Disney Company Posts First Quarterly Loss In Almost 20 Years
70262 upvotes • comment • aug 07, 2020
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Fire Station in Italy looks like a villain hideout
70226 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
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Millennial's American Dream: making a living wage to pay rent and maybe for food
70218 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020
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In Singapore's airport you have the option to slide to your boarding gate
70199 upvotes • comment • aug 24, 2020
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Drop of water falling on a sharp point
70129 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2020
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In 40 years what will people be nostalgic for?
70121 upvotes • comment • aug 22, 2020
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An Important Message for Students
70118 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2020
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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
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🔥 A moose on the path
70071 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
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The Spaniards be having siestas in the middle of the workday
70010 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2020
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My mom has been protesting nearly every day for months in her rural Colorado town. Proud of her!
69980 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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Dad got hit in the nostril by a Straw
69968 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2020
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What movie could have been over in 10 minutes if the main character wasn't such a fool?
69902 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020
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Starting a new game
69884 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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*laughs in trickster*
69835 upvotes • comment • aug 18, 2020
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Tony Hawk not spilling the milk at 52
69692 upvotes • comment • aug 30, 2020
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Today my daughter is 5 yrs cancer free! I took this photo to commemorate washing away 5 yrs.
69680 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
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I am speed
69666 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020