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TIL A married Secret Service agent had trouble extraditing a hacker from Romania, so he pretended he was a woman, flirted for 7 months online, and nabbed the criminal when he flew to Boston with 3 boxes of grape-flavored condoms.
66632 upvotes • comment • mar 28, 2020
White culture
66631 upvotes • comment • nov 20, 2020
Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less politically polarized, and reported improved subjective well-being relative to controls.
66627 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2020
For the sake of everyone having a laugh I present to you “skateboarding at 34/I think I landed on my dignity”
66626 upvotes • comment • jul 13, 2020
WCGW When I try to be a Jedi
66625 upvotes • comment • jun 24, 2020
TIFU by leaving my reddit account logged in on the shared work computer and allowing my smarter and more handsome colleague to post whatever he wants
66625 upvotes • comment • mar 12, 2020
Grant, not Lee
66621 upvotes • comment • jul 04, 2020
Double standards
66618 upvotes • comment • dec 13, 2020
He was waiting for this moment his whole life
66617 upvotes • comment • nov 05, 2020
Bison being released into Banff National Park for the first time in 140 years
66615 upvotes • comment • oct 22, 2020
Look at her living life like she pays her own vet bills
66614 upvotes • comment • sep 16, 2020
Bruh-size: large
66614 upvotes • comment • aug 31, 2020
‘Please stop this nonsense’: Japanese decry boomer-era technology as hospitals file Covid-19 cases by fax
66613 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2020
I'll always stop for a petting
66613 upvotes • comment • may 05, 2020
Adding another section to a drill bit
66612 upvotes • comment • feb 23, 2020
Trump supporter: "I wish Bernie had won the primary because my wife's losing her job/insurance which is Biden's fault somehow"
66612 upvotes • comment • nov 09, 2020
This is the final 45 seconds of a Marvel montage that I've been editing for the last 4 months. All work and effort was putted on creating the masks and transitions. Someone told me to post here.
66604 upvotes • comment • may 13, 2020
TIL America's Most Wanted aired an episode on John List, a family annihilator who had evaded justice for 18 years. It featured an age-progressed clay bust, which was so accurate that a man in Denver recognised it as his own neighbour. List had relocated, assumed a new identity and remarried.
66603 upvotes • comment • sep 10, 2020
Once in a lifetime shot.
66603 upvotes • comment • apr 27, 2020
A collection of wool hats
66602 upvotes • comment • sep 29, 2020
[GIVEAWAY] XBOX SERIES S GIVEAWAY FOR CHRISTMAS!
66601 upvotes • comment • dec 23, 2020
what a big boi
66600 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2020
TIL An increasing number of elderly Japanese people are committing small crimes so they can live in prison for free. People aged 65+ now make up more than a quarter of the prison population in Japan.
66599 upvotes • comment • apr 10, 2020
Don't know if this has been posted before but this just made my day
66599 upvotes • comment • mar 26, 2020
This is what an elephant herd is supposed to look like. Tsavo, Kenya in the 1950s.
66598 upvotes • comment • jun 20, 2020
It's a great time to be a white debt collector
66591 upvotes • comment • oct 11, 2020
This person using the pan lid to squeeze all the cheese out of the pouch.
66589 upvotes • comment • dec 21, 2020
Scottish parliament votes to hold new independence referendum
66587 upvotes • comment • jan 29, 2020
TIL the USSR expected to win the final of the 1957 Ice Hockey World Championships, held in Moscow, but lost to Sweden. The organizers did not have the Swedish national anthem ready for the medal ceremony, so the Swedish players sang a drinking song and it was broadcast over the PA system.
66585 upvotes • comment • oct 13, 2020
Whats the craziest crime you or somebody in your family has commited?
66581 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2020
Manatees being feed sweet potatoes... while looking like sweet potatoes
66580 upvotes • comment • sep 27, 2020
If you’ve had a rough week check out Little Man snoozing with his very good boy.
66579 upvotes • comment • apr 04, 2020
Today is my birthday and my 15 year sobriety anniversary!
66579 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2020
What’s wrong with people
66575 upvotes • comment • feb 13, 2020
After almost 2 years of dealing with traumas and depression I finally got the motivation to clean my room entirely. It almost took 9 hours, and 2 trash bags full with plastic bottles, Pizza boxes and other trash. I'm proud of my work.
66575 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2020
This is Bob.
66570 upvotes • comment • apr 17, 2020
[Serious] What are some seemingly normal images with disturbing backstories?
66568 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2020
TIL that Hawaii's first queen's first time running the country was marked by a smallpox outbreak and that the decisive action she took to stop the spread (closing all ports) drew the ire of rich sugarcane plantation owners and eventually lead to the coup that overthrew her.
66566 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020
I was not expecting this to happen
66564 upvotes • comment • nov 26, 2020
TIL a deceased man was considered a coauthor of a 1990 math paper after he appeared in a dream to the other author to explain some of the key ideas.
66562 upvotes • comment • mar 02, 2020
Game devs, CMON
66562 upvotes • comment • sep 30, 2020
Drug dealer confronts live streamer for parking in a drug spot
66561 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2020
The most accurate balloon assassin
66558 upvotes • comment • dec 27, 2020
After 20 years of bad teeth and not smiling, I'm 4 days into a new me!
66555 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2020
Guy Gets Entire Park to Sing 'Livin' On A Prayer' By Jon Bon Jovi
66555 upvotes • comment • jan 29, 2020
LPT: If you can smell yourself a little bit, others can smell you a lot.
66554 upvotes • comment • may 28, 2020
Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, dead at age 72
66550 upvotes • comment • aug 16, 2020
Disappointing Train
66546 upvotes • comment • feb 21, 2020
Husband offers his back so his pregnant wife can finally have a seat
66546 upvotes • comment • aug 27, 2020
Prepared a bat for a fight but knocked out at a junction
66544 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2020
My little one having a nice breakfast with her dad who’s finally home from the hospital after a week. Just in time for Christmas. 🎄
66544 upvotes • comment • dec 24, 2020
You can be a Black man and still be a Karen
66541 upvotes • comment • jul 20, 2020
Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlett Witch without CGI.
66539 upvotes • comment • jan 17, 2020
Bernie Sanders says he's staying in race, looks forward to debating Joe Biden
66538 upvotes • comment • mar 11, 2020
Found a moose tooth in the creek
66537 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
Who else used to need one of these to plug in a games console? (Don’t forget to set the dial to channel 3!)
66534 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
We have hit a new low, until tomorrow.
66534 upvotes • comment • jul 03, 2020
Anyone else see lines?
66532 upvotes • comment • jul 06, 2020
I like to think this conversation went down when coming up with the KFC Console.
66529 upvotes • comment • dec 29, 2020
blursed goose
66527 upvotes • comment • feb 03, 2020
Proper progress
66527 upvotes • comment • jun 09, 2020
[OC] 2020 electoral map if only ____ voted. Breakdown by each major demographics.
66527 upvotes • comment • dec 24, 2020
Romka grew up on a farm with horses and now she thinks she's a horse
66516 upvotes • comment • apr 29, 2020
Each year my brother and I compete to give the hardest to open birthday gift. This year I’ve wrapped his gift in concrete
66516 upvotes • comment • oct 25, 2020
Have you ever not slept for so long that you started hallucinating? What was your experience?
66512 upvotes • comment • dec 10, 2020
Do you like my PC setup?
66510 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2020
This badass sand castle
66509 upvotes • comment • jul 28, 2020
Jesus can't save you
66509 upvotes • comment • apr 03, 2020
Face coverings are now mandatory in the Republic of Ireland and people who violate the law get a fine of €2,500
66506 upvotes • comment • aug 11, 2020
Baby bird that looks like a pinecone
66502 upvotes • comment • oct 27, 2020
Postal worker admits fabricating allegations of ballot tampering, officials say
66500 upvotes • comment • nov 11, 2020
Tell me Kenneth Copeland doesn’t look exactly like Dorian when he finally puts on The Mask...
66500 upvotes • comment • nov 19, 2020
Mr. Excuses
66493 upvotes • comment • jun 08, 2020
An Argus pheasant doing his best
66488 upvotes • comment • apr 12, 2020
TIL Scientists in China have successfully grown tooth enamel which paves the way to replace fillings & crowns. A chemical mixture applied to whole human teeth created an enamel layer 2.7 micrometers thick within 48 hours. (Calcium & phosphate ions with triethylamine in alcohol).
66484 upvotes • comment • jul 12, 2020
This made me smile.
66481 upvotes • comment • dec 06, 2020
COLORADO SPRINGS POLICE DEPT. incites violence by suggesting protesters exercising their legal right to wear gas masks is somehow a threat to the police and that things are not going to be peaceful because of it.
66479 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020
Gatekeeping the title Dr.
66478 upvotes • comment • dec 17, 2020
Car rides with kitty
66478 upvotes • comment • aug 01, 2020
TIL After Sir Terry Pratchetts death, Neil Gaiman had the only hard drive containing his unfinished novels crushed with a steamroller, as per the late fantasy writers request
66477 upvotes • comment • dec 08, 2020
This big baby is only 3 months old. She’s scared of thunderstorms.
66477 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2020
TIL that it took 32 years to officially clear the parents in the famous “dingo took my baby case”. The mother spent three years in jail until evidence supporting their defense was found by chance. They ultimately received $1.3M for wrongful imprisonment, less than 1/3 of their legal fees.
66475 upvotes • comment • oct 17, 2020
My grandmother lived in three centuries
66474 upvotes • comment • jan 15, 2020
It doesn't matter how much you like his music, Tekashi 69 slept with a 13 year old and by listening to his music you are lining the pockets of a rapist.
66473 upvotes • comment • aug 03, 2020
HOAs violate your property rights
66471 upvotes • comment • sep 06, 2020
Caught my college girlfriend cheating with this guy in 2015. This is her in a Vice documentary about sugar babies in 2020.
66470 upvotes • comment • jul 22, 2020
You can see his pain
66463 upvotes • comment • apr 21, 2020
So that's where they sleep
66462 upvotes • comment • feb 25, 2020
I was splitting firewood and I found this bullet lodged in one of the logs. Notice how there’s no path of entry, so this tree was shot long ago and it healed itself around the bullet.
66459 upvotes • comment • oct 01, 2020
Things that never happened for a $1,000 Alex
66457 upvotes • comment • aug 25, 2020
Middle school romances are really tough
66456 upvotes • comment • jun 18, 2020
step aside Karen's.. the Debra's have arrived.
66453 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2020
Hmm.. I wonder why..
66447 upvotes • comment • nov 09, 2020
Here’s to 7 years free!
66447 upvotes • comment • may 18, 2020
YouTube Has Been Deleting Comments Critical Of Chinese Communist Party For 6 Months, Calls It An ‘Error’ After Outrage
66446 upvotes • comment • may 27, 2020
Reinhardt's receiving a blessing from heaven!
66442 upvotes • comment • jul 15, 2020
surprise!
66441 upvotes • comment • jul 18, 2020
Biden notes 'the violence we're witnessing is happening under Donald Trump. Not me.'
66440 upvotes • comment • aug 28, 2020
Trust me, you'll get the job.
66439 upvotes • comment • jul 10, 2020
Taiwan election – Tsai Ing-wen wins second presidential term, beating Beijing-friendly rival
66430 upvotes • comment • jan 11, 2020