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TIL that despite the popular use of being 'low on the totem pole' being lower down in the pecking order, native americans would often accord the most prestige to the lowest position on the totem pole, seen as 'bearing the weight of all other figures', or at eye level to heighten significance
44508 upvotes • comment • jun 07, 2020
Feelings
44507 upvotes • comment • nov 06, 2020
MP Barbara Nowacka getting sprayed in the face by the police during Women's protests in Warsaw yesterday. She's holding her MP ID card in her hand.
44506 upvotes • comment • nov 29, 2020
There's an ancient Japanese pruning method from the 14th century that allows lumber production without cutting down trees called “daisugi”
44504 upvotes • comment • jul 30, 2020
Microwave
44503 upvotes • comment • mar 18, 2020
How to wake up a deaf dog
44503 upvotes • comment • nov 19, 2020
Yikes
44501 upvotes • comment • mar 17, 2020
Social/religious norms aside, how would you like your death to be mourned/celebrated?
44500 upvotes • comment • apr 18, 2020
Reinhardt has grown into a big floof!
44498 upvotes • comment • apr 02, 2020
Bruh
44497 upvotes • comment • feb 22, 2020
Who here has played Lego Island (1997)?
44496 upvotes • comment • oct 11, 2020
Sen. Mitt Romney tells Chris Wallace that President Trump should be removed from office
44495 upvotes • comment • feb 06, 2020
Lithops, “Living Stones”, a genus of succulent plants whose rocklike appearance serves as camouflage from herbivores.
44492 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
Is it true
44492 upvotes • comment • sep 19, 2020
Horse trained in 'cutting' keeps cow back as rancher tags calf
44492 upvotes • comment • dec 20, 2020
If you’re in need of wholesome content, Robert Irwin helped Bindi’s fiancé practice the proposal
44491 upvotes • comment • mar 29, 2020
TIL the episode of Seinfeld titled "The Revenge" when George quits his job and then shows back up to work as if nothing happened in hopes of keeping it was inspired by Larry David's real-life story of quitting his job as a writer at SNL and doing the same thing
44485 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2020
[OC] r/AmITheAsshole - Asshole percentage by age and sex
44485 upvotes • comment • aug 05, 2020
Steph Curry urges voting after Trump tells Proud Boys 'stand back, stand by'
44484 upvotes • comment • sep 30, 2020
Joe Biden, Wearing Mask, Appears in Public at a Veterans Memorial
44482 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2020
TIFU by using the nuclear option in a game of monopoly.
44479 upvotes • comment • oct 12, 2020
A soul connection
44478 upvotes • comment • apr 09, 2020
WCGW locking your dog in the RV
44478 upvotes • comment • nov 23, 2020
US to halt funding to WHO over coronavirus
44476 upvotes • comment • apr 14, 2020
Study: Temperature checks, symptom screenings not very effective in detecting COVID-19 infections
44475 upvotes • comment • nov 14, 2020
Proper use of lighter
44474 upvotes • comment • jul 09, 2020
No wonder they’re always broke
44473 upvotes • comment • may 21, 2020
That guilty feeling after you’re too extreme
44470 upvotes • comment • oct 06, 2020
frozen lake jumping
44468 upvotes • comment • dec 05, 2020
How the title and the text have nothing to do with each other
44464 upvotes • comment • jul 18, 2020
Is this the look of every village hall in the UK?
44464 upvotes • comment • nov 19, 2020
Staggering Surge Of NYers Dying In Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting Coronavirus Fatalities
44464 upvotes • comment • apr 07, 2020
After 7 years Snowden gets validation.
44463 upvotes • comment • sep 04, 2020
Kim Kardashian West mocked for 'humble' birthday party on private island
44463 upvotes • comment • oct 28, 2020
Joe Biden congratulated by Russian opposition leader, not by Vladimir Putin
44461 upvotes • comment • nov 09, 2020
Biden raises a record $3.8 million in 1 hour during debate with Trump
44461 upvotes • comment • sep 30, 2020
TIL that when the Japanese emperor announced Japan's surrender in WW2, his speech was too formal and vague for the general populace to understand. Many listeners were left confused and it took some people hours, some days, to understand that Japan had, in fact, surrendered.
44457 upvotes • comment • jan 23, 2020
TIL Henry Ford introduced a $5 min wage. The move made national news as it constituted double the industry norm—and double the pay of most of Ford’s own employees. He also reduced the working day from 9 hours to 8 —becoming one of the first companies in America to adopt the 40-hour work week.
44455 upvotes • comment • jan 04, 2020
All of them are Attacking him.
44454 upvotes • comment • feb 27, 2020
During her battle with cancer and after she beat it
44453 upvotes • comment • may 30, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the world's most Italian toddler.
44453 upvotes • comment • aug 02, 2020
You have to be creative to stay in business during a pandemic
44452 upvotes • comment • oct 04, 2020
Trump and Kushner Must Be Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity
44452 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
Coyote accidentally gives itself a brain freeze while drinking from a frozen water trough
44451 upvotes • comment • mar 16, 2020
Nobody gave us the source code for how our bodies work so we’ve basically spent centuries reverse engineering ourselves
44451 upvotes • comment • feb 09, 2020
Capitalism is a death cult
44451 upvotes • comment • mar 24, 2020
Totally original and witty movie dialogue starter pack
44449 upvotes • comment • sep 12, 2020
Have you ever woke up in the middle of a dream and the dream was so interresting that you wanted to to back to sleep to see the end of it? If so, what was the dream?
44449 upvotes • comment • jan 20, 2020
Somethings wrong, I can feel it
44448 upvotes • comment • feb 18, 2020
This half graffiti hotel room in Marseille, France
44447 upvotes • comment • mar 21, 2020
TIL that the rarest insect in the world is the Lord Howe Island stick insect. It was believed to be extinct since 1920 until some were found again in 2001. In 2006 there were only about 50 of them, but only 2 years later their population increased to 700!
44446 upvotes • comment • jun 27, 2020
[OC] Population density of Europe!
44446 upvotes • comment • mar 17, 2020
Gave somebody silver because I liked their post, they went through my history and insulted me :(
44445 upvotes • comment • feb 09, 2020
The Cosmic Irony of Bernie Sanders’s Rise - What makes Bernie Sanders so threatening to the Democratic establishment is that he stands for what millions of Democrats thought their party stood for all along.
44444 upvotes • comment • feb 17, 2020
Two armies are about to do battle, and both pray to you, their god, for victory. How do you decide who to help?
44441 upvotes • comment • sep 29, 2020
Dream Date!
44441 upvotes • comment • sep 19, 2020
this is too pure ❤
44440 upvotes • comment • jul 29, 2020
TIL: In 2013 a cat guided a lost hiker down a Swiss mountain,the little feline made sure the man wasn't left behind by checking on him every now and then.Once they reached their destination they parted ways.
44440 upvotes • comment • nov 05, 2020
Jet Skier Saves Surfer From A Monster Wave
44439 upvotes • comment • dec 25, 2020
Chinese businessman Jack Ma is donating 500 000 COVID-19 test kits and 1 million masks to the U.S.A.
44439 upvotes • comment • mar 14, 2020
After being shot by a 13 year old, this woman forgave him, worked to overturn his life sentence, and had pizza with him the day he was released 26 years later.
44439 upvotes • comment • nov 24, 2020
What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?
44438 upvotes • comment • jan 25, 2020
TIL a woman told an auto shop she had to cancel her service appt. as her car was stolen. One of the 3 Tulsa men who own the auto shop called her back the next day to tell her he & his buddies are chasing her stolen car. With TPD dispatch, they got her car back after after a 15 min chase.
44437 upvotes • comment • feb 28, 2020
Kimberly gives 0 fucks
44434 upvotes • comment • jan 03, 2020
Blasphemy 'is no crime', says Macron amid French girl's anti-Islam row - The French president defended the teenager, named only as Mila, who received death threats and was forced out of her school after filming an anti-religious diatribe on social media.
44434 upvotes • comment • feb 12, 2020
TIL of an urban legend from Pennsylvania, where a man "appears in the roadways, stalking teenagers and thrill seekers." The story is based on Raymond Robinson, who liked to walk at night because his face was severely disfigured from an electrical accident, and was actually a very nice guy.
44434 upvotes • comment • nov 14, 2020
Mexican president proposes stripping immunity from US agents
44434 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2020
TIL that an average NFL game has just 11 minutes of live play. The rest of the time is devoted to over 100 commercials, 17 minutes of replay and around 75 minutes is spent watching players, coaches, and referees essentially loiter on the field.
44431 upvotes • comment • mar 24, 2020
This machine visualizes number googol (a 1 with a 100 zeros, bigger than the atoms in the known universe) & has a gear reduction of 1 to 10 a hundred times. To get last gear to turn once you'll need to spin first one a googol amount around, which will require more energy than entire universe has.
44430 upvotes • comment • mar 03, 2020
Glassblowing is pretty...lit
44427 upvotes • comment • aug 23, 2020
German officials were so alarmed by Trump's conversations with Angela Merkel that they took extra steps to make sure they stayed secret, according to a CNN report
44425 upvotes • comment • jun 30, 2020
Wanted a relaxing bath to ease the sadness, got the most disgusting bath bomb possible that stained both me and my tub and my poor shower pouf after I vigorously tried to get it all off. "Beautiful bath" my ass, I look like I rolled in dirt now.
44424 upvotes • comment • mar 01, 2020
Ben Carson has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19
44420 upvotes • comment • nov 09, 2020
Ok, What?!
44418 upvotes • comment • oct 08, 2020
People Are Buying Stamps And Praising Mail Carriers After The US Postal Service Said It Needs A Coronavirus Bailout
44412 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2020
Or was it her
44411 upvotes • comment • mar 26, 2020
Anybody else feel super cringey when taking selfies and therefore take none?
44410 upvotes • comment • may 14, 2020
Never thought it would not only witness this but it would be done to my own car! This lady cannot drive! ( I rent my addition to a couple in their 30s and the guys gf did this).
44408 upvotes • comment • mar 16, 2020
Damn Pommies
44407 upvotes • comment • jun 17, 2020
The Karen in chief
44407 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2020
The system doesn't help the child
44406 upvotes • comment • jan 30, 2020
me_irl
44405 upvotes • comment • mar 07, 2020
World leaders largely condemn the deadly US drone strike on Iranian general as a 'dangerous escalation' while the UN calls the move 'likely unlawful'
44405 upvotes • comment • jan 03, 2020
If Reddit was Among Us
44404 upvotes • comment • sep 19, 2020
Do you think couples right now are having more sex because they are home together longer or less sex because they are home together longer? Why?
44403 upvotes • comment • mar 20, 2020
The first recovered COVID-19 patient in the province of Modena (Italy). She’s a 95 year old grandmother
44402 upvotes • comment • mar 20, 2020
Meet Kiki: Just a pregnant special needs cheetah who learned to sit from meerkats
44402 upvotes • comment • nov 19, 2020
I’m so confused.
44402 upvotes • comment • nov 15, 2020
Wall climbing competition
44399 upvotes • comment • feb 12, 2020
Frances longest border is shared with Brazil!
44399 upvotes • comment • jun 02, 2020
Our first day together seems to be going well
44396 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
Thought I'd share my Nintendo Controller coffee table on my cake day
44395 upvotes • comment • oct 14, 2020
to stay calm while telling the government what to do.
44395 upvotes • comment • apr 20, 2020
Joe Walsh: 'I'd rather have a socialist in the White House than a con man'
44393 upvotes • comment • feb 25, 2020
'Dangerously Authoritarian': Trump Says 'Hopefully' Courts Will Stop States From Counting Ballots After November 3 | "He's saying it out loud: he wants courts to block legally cast ballots from being counted."
44393 upvotes • comment • oct 29, 2020
Don't let it die.
44391 upvotes • comment • jan 27, 2020
That slap though
44390 upvotes • comment • jan 05, 2020
I’m ready! I’m ready!
44387 upvotes • comment • nov 03, 2020
Wood Veneered Gaming Consoles
44384 upvotes • comment • jun 03, 2020
Filming your cat instead of pulling your cat off
44384 upvotes • comment • jul 27, 2020